People Flashcards
Thomas Wedgewood
experimented with silver nitrate prints on paper in a camera obscura but couldn’t make a permanent image. He called his images “sun prints”
Johan Schulze
German chemist who, in the early 1700s, showed that silver halides and light led to a color change
Louis Daguerre
worked at the Diorama and then built of the work of Niepce to create Daguerrotypes. More of a businessman than a photographer.
John Herschel
discovered that “hypo” would stop silver salts from further reactions with light. Invented the term “photography.” Invented the cyanotype. First to use the terms “negative” and “positive” in photography.
Hippolye Bayard
Exhibited silver chloride prints in 1839 but was pushed out of the way by Arago to promote Daguerre.
William Fox Talbot
Wished he could do better than the camera lucida in capturing the landscapes of his honeymoon to Lake Como. Made silver salt prints that he called “calotypes” where a positive was made from a negative thus providing photography with a reproducible process, unlike the Daguerrotype. Created “The Pencil of Nature” – the first book of photographs
Giovanni della Porta
Wrote the first known description of how to make a camera obscura in the book “Natural Magic” in the 1500s
Joseph Niepce
Created the heliograph with a pewter plate with bitumen leading to the earliest known photograph “View from his window at Le Gras,” 1826
Max Petzval
made the first lenses specifically for photography
Louis Blanquart-Evard
invented albumen paper for printing in 1850
Roger Fenton
British photographer, known as the first war photographer for his photos from the Crimean war. Founding member of the Royal Photographic Society
Frederick Archer
invented the collodion process
Nadar (Felix Tournachon)
French caricaturist turned photographer. He took the first aerial photographs. First photos with electric flash
Henry Peach Robinson
pioneered combination printing
Gustave Le Gray
introduced dodging and burning and worked with combination prints taking one image of the sky and one of the water for seascapes
Samuel Morse
brought photography to the US, Matthew Brady was one of his students
Francois Arago
championed Daguerre in France pushing aside Hypolyte Bayard
Matthew Brady
documented the civil war (hiring others to shoot) and took portraits of Lincoln
Timothy O’Sullivan
civil war photographer most famous for “The Harvest of Death”
Alexander Gardner
civil war photographer who worked for Brady. He published “Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War” and photographed the execution of the conspirators against Lincoln
Eadweard Muybridge
hired by Stanford to take photos of a moving horse
John Dallmeyer
optician who developed the rapid reticular lens in 1866 that reduces radial distortion
William Henry Jackson
photographer of the American west whose photos of Yellowstone helped convince congress to establish the first National Park
Darius & Tabitha Kinsey
Husband and wife who photographed the logging industry in the northwest
