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Inventor of a light sensitive service

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Niépce

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When Niépce invested light sensitive surface, the ______________ ____________ ___ ________________ was born

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basic principal of photography

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Niépce’s first photograph

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View from the Window of at Gras (1826)

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Niépce photographed using a _______ _______ to expose a copper plate coated in silver and pewter

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camera obscura

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Phootographs would continue being light sensitive and eventually turn black until the invention of ________________, a chemical that reversed the light sensitivity of paper

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Hypo

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A chemical that reversed the light sensitivity of paper

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Hypo

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When was Hypo discovered?

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1839

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Louis Daguerre invented the _______ in (year)

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daguerrotype
1839

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The daguerrotype significantly reduces _______ ________ and created a ________ ______ but only produced a single image.

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exposure time
lasting result

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Daguerre and ________ were contemporaries

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Talbot

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William Henry Fox Talbot was from ________.

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England

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Who created the calotype method?

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Talbot

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What year was the Calotype method pattened?

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1841

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Inventor of the Calotype

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Talbott

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Inventor of a paper negative

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Talbott - the calotype method

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Inventor of new technology that involved the transformation of the ______ to a _______ image, allowing for more than just one copy of image

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Talbott

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Talbott’s famous photograph and the year

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The Open Door (1844)

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18
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Talbott’s photographs allowed for much more ________.

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detail

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When was the Collodion method introduced?

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1851

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The Collodion method required _____ __________.

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portable darkrooms

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Process that involved fixing a substance known as “gun cotton” onto a glass plate, allowing for a shorter exposure time (3-5 minutes) as well as a clearer image

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The collodion method

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What was the Collodion method’s main downside?

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Photographers had t carry portable dark rooms with them

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Inventor of the Collodion method

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Daumier

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What method did Daumier invent?

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collodion method

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Known also for capturing first aerial photograph from a hot air balloon
Daumier
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Daumier used a ______ negative
glass
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Nadar Elevating Photography to the Height of Art (1862).
Daumier
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What year was the dry glass plate invented, making the collodion method less labor intensive?
1867
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In 1878, new technology decreased the _______ time to 1/25th of a second, allowing ________ ________ to be photographed without a tripod
exposure moving objects
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Eadward Muybridge's famous work of art showing lowered exposure time and the ability to capture moving objects and the year
Galloping Horse (1878)
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Inventor of the dry gelatin roll film
George Eastman
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George Eastman invented what?
dry gelatin roll film
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What year did Eastman develop the dry gelatin roll of film?
1888
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Who produced the first small inexpensive cameras?
George Eastman
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The invention of photography was announced simultaneously in France 🇫🇷 & England in what year?
1839
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Inventor of the Heliograph
Niépce
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Heliograph
Niépce
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Niépce's Heliograph was invented in in 1827 and is the earliest ___________ produced with the aid of the ______ _______ known to survive today
photograph camera obscura
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Heliograph means what?
sun writing
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the Heliograph was invented by whom?
Niépce
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What year did Niépce produce his "points de vue?"
1816
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Legible but fleeting images discovered by Niepce in 1816.
points de vue
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Inventor of the diorama
Daguerre
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In 1829, what two early famous photographers entered into a formal partnership?
Niepce & Daguerre
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Daguerre was from where?
France
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Daguerre continued to make improvements after Niepce died and introduced his ____________ in __(year)__.
daguerreotype 1839
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Improved upon Niepce's Heliograph
Daguerre
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A one of a kind image on a highly polished, silver plated sheet of copper.
A Daguerreotype
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In 1829, Niepce and Daguerre formed a partnership to deal with the issue of how to make a ________ image using _______ and _________.
permanent light Chemistry
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Year that Niepce passed away
1833
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A noted astronomer and Daguerre's main supporter
Arago
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Daguerre made his daguerreotype process public in what year?
1839
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Few of Daguerre's photographs, notes, and his famous Diorama exist because why?
His lab burnt to the ground in 1839
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The Daguerreotype spread rapidly across the world after its presentation to the public in ______ in ___(year)____.
Paris 1839
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Photographic method that exhibits extraordinary detail and three-dimentionality.
The Daguerreotype
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Although born in Europe, the daguerreotype was extremely popular in the _______ _______, especially in _________ _________ ________, where in the late 1850s hundreds of daguerreotypists vied for clients.
United States NYC
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Partnership lasting 19 years in USA that produced the finest daguerreotypes in America, portraits of famous people at the time
Southworth and Hawes
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The artist most closely tied to the early years of American photographic process
Mathew B Brady
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collodion-on-glass negatives were also known as
wet plates
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By the onset of the Civil War, the _______ ________ had replaced the __________________ altogether
paper print daguerreotype
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Who founded the paper negative in 1839?
Talbot
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Process employing a polished silver-plated peice of copper
the daguerreotype
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Before the late 1850s in America, photographs were _______.
portraits
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By 1860, portraiture was joined by _____ and _____ _______
landscapes city views
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A double photograph presented in such a manner that an observer looking through a stereoscopy could see a single image in three dimensions.
Stereographs
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Stereographs were introduced in the US in the (year)'s but became truly popular in the late (year)'s
1840 1850
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Stereograph is aka as
stereo view
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The discovery by Talbot that wherever the light struck, the paper darkened, but whenever the plant blocked the light, it remained white is called
"the art of photogenic drawing"
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the art of photogenic writing is attributed to
Talbot
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Responsible for founding the Calotype process
Talbot
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the word "calotype" comes from the Greek word "kalos" meaning ________.
beautiful
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Talbot's "exciting liquid" that brought out a latent image was essentially a solution of _______ _________.
gallic acid
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Talbot patented the calotype process in what year?
1841
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Who suggested using hypo to permanently fix a photograph?
Sir John Herschel
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A more permanent means of "fixing" an image with ________ of soda was proposed by _________ and used by _________.
hyposulfite (of soda) Herschel Talbot
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Who wrote "The Pencil of Nature" beginning in 1844?
Talbot
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Talbot's early photogenic drawings are so ephemeral and can never be exhibited or exposed to ______ without risk of change.
light
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Calotypes were fixed with _______.
hypo
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Inventor of the calotype process
Talbot
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The 1840s were overwhelmingly dominated by what process?
the daguerreotype
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A magically precise, one of a kind image on highly polished silver-plated sheets of copper
Daguerreotypes
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Inventor of paper photography
Talbot
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The photographic process using paper photography is called what?
the calotype
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Calotype inventor
Talbot
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Talbot's calotype process lacked the clarity of the ________.
daguerreotype
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What was the advantage of the calotype over the daguerreotype?
from a single negative of identical photographic prints could be produced
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The calotype's lack of clarity was viewed as more _______ that the daguerreotype.
artistic
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In 1851, the first _____ _______ was formed.
photographic society

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