People

Question 1

Thomas Wedgewood

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experimented with silver nitrate prints on paper in a camera obscura but couldn’t make a permanent image. He called his images “sun prints”

Question 2

Johan Schulze

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German chemist who, in the early 1700s, showed that silver halides and light led to a color change

Question 3

Louis Daguerre

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worked at the Diorama and then built of the work of Niepce to create Daguerrotypes. More of a businessman than a photographer.

Question 4

John Herschel

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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.

Question 5

Hippolye Bayard

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Exhibited silver chloride prints in 1839 but was pushed out of the way by Arago to promote Daguerre.

Question 6

William Fox Talbot

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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

Question 7

Giovanni della Porta

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Wrote the first known description of how to make a camera obscura in the book “Natural Magic” in the 1500s

Question 8

Joseph Niepce

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Created the heliograph with a pewter plate with bitumen leading to the earliest known photograph “View from his window at Le Gras,” 1826

Question 9

Max Petzval

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made the first lenses specifically for photography

Question 10

Louis Blanquart-Evard

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invented albumen paper for printing in 1850

Question 11

Roger Fenton

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British photographer, known as the first war photographer for his photos from the Crimean war. Founding member of the Royal Photographic Society

Question 12

Frederick Archer

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invented the collodion process

Question 13

Nadar (Felix Tournachon)

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French caricaturist turned photographer. He took the first aerial photographs. First photos with electric flash

Question 14

Henry Peach Robinson

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pioneered combination printing

Question 15

Gustave Le Gray

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introduced dodging and burning and worked with combination prints taking one image of the sky and one of the water for seascapes

Question 16

Samuel Morse

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brought photography to the US, Matthew Brady was one of his students

Question 17

Francois Arago

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championed Daguerre in France pushing aside Hypolyte Bayard

Question 18

Matthew Brady

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documented the civil war (hiring others to shoot) and took portraits of Lincoln

Question 19

Timothy O’Sullivan

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civil war photographer most famous for “The Harvest of Death”

Question 20

Alexander Gardner

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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

Question 21

Eadweard Muybridge

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hired by Stanford to take photos of a moving horse

Question 22

John Dallmeyer

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optician who developed the rapid reticular lens in 1866 that reduces radial distortion

Question 23

William Henry Jackson

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photographer of the American west whose photos of Yellowstone helped convince congress to establish the first National Park

Question 24

Darius & Tabitha Kinsey

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Husband and wife who photographed the logging industry in the northwest

Question 25

Mo Ti

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ancient Chinese philosopher who described the camera obscura phenomenon