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Ansel Adams

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Landscape Photographer Americas most famous

Loved to photograph Yosemite

Used an 8x10 view camera

Developed the Zone scale

Used a microwave to dry his prints

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Mary Ellen Mark

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Took pictures of people

Indians

Street Kids

Most famous image

Tiny

Prom series

Psych ward 81

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Julia Margaret Cameron

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Did portraits

Born in 1850

One of the first women photographers

Got her first camera in 1863

Concentrated on the role of women

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

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The V day picture “The Kiss”

Joeseph Goebbels

One of the first staff of LIFE magazine

Father of Photojournalism

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Gordon Parks

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American Gothic is most famous portrait

Picture of African American janitor that held up her broom in rotunda of DC

First African American to work for LIFE

Renassaince man

Photographed Muhammed Ali

Worked for the FSA

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Josef Koudelka

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Photographed Gypsies

Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Photographed in Prauge then paris

Used a Panoramic Camera

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Robert Capa

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War Photography

5 wars

D-Day most famous photograph

Fallen soldier also quite famous

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Margaret Bourke White

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Had the first cover of LIFE

First female war correspondent

Photographed Ghandi

South African coal mines

Hardcore lady

Germany in WWI

known for her WWII

Photographed Hitler’s people after assassination

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Nicholas Nixon

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Most famous for the brown sisters series

Did aids photography

Using an 8x10 camera

did boston architecture

Nursing homes

naked people

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Dorthea Lang

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Did the Dust Bowl

Did the Japanese internment camp

Worked for the FSA

Most famous for Migrant Mother

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Helen Levitt

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Took pictures of kids on the street

used a right angle viewfinder

Photographed in the 40s 50s

In the Harlem area

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Bernice Abbot

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Cityscapes

Salvaged atget’s work

photogrpahed in the 30s 40s

Changing New York is her famous series

Used a view camera

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Lewis Hine

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Pictures of New York City

Workers on skyscrapers

Would go in a basket to photograph at the right angle

Three famous projects

Started with Ellis Island social justice

child labor

Empire state building

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14
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agitation

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Spreading the chemicals to the film evenly

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Angle of View

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how wide an images is or how much you see through the viewfinder

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aperature

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size of the opening that lets in light

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ISO

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sensitivity of film to light

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Circle of Confusion

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the circles of light that create an image

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condenser enlarger

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light sent straight through the lens

20
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Contact Sheet

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print with all the positive images

21
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contrast

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Difference between light and dark

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Density

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buildup of silver

23
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depth of field

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Area of acceptably sharp focus

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diffusion enlarger

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Light refracted before it reaches the negative spreads it out

25
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emulsion

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The side of the negative that holds the light sensitive crystals

26
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fast lens

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aperture opens wide

27
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film speed

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How sensitive film is to light

28
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Flat print

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a print without enough contrast

29
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f stop

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Aperture

30
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focal length

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Distance between the lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused on infinity

31
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focal plane

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Where the film sits in the camera

32
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focal point

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Where light rays intersect on the focal plane

33
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grain

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Visible silver halide crystals

34
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The light falling on the subject

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illumence

35
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latent image

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The undeveloped/invisible image on the film before developing

36
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The light reflected off the subject

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luminance

37
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The developed image with reversed tones

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negative

38
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normal lens

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50mm

39
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Sensitive to all wavelengths of light

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panchromatic

40
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The difference between what you see and what the camera picks up

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paralax

41
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Sodium Thiosulfate

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fixer

42
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Stock Solution

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concentrated solution

43
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Stop Bath

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stops developing or fixing

44
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view camera

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image is upside down backwards very large negative larger amount of silver crystals

45
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Accelerates the wash time by getting rid of fixer

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HCA

46
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Reduces the surface tension on film to get rid of water spots and faster dry

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photo flo

47
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Several focal lengths in one lens

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zoom lens

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