Photography Flashcards

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The first camera

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Obscura

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Niecephore Niepce

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French inventor who in 1816 combined the camera obscura with light sensitive paper to create the first permanent image. (Inventor and pioneer of photography)

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3
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Earliest surviving photograph:

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“View from the window le gras” - Niepce

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4
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Louis Daguerre

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French dude who, in 1839 created the first announced photo developing process (produced on metallic silver material)

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5
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James Maxwell

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Scottish Physicist who, in 1861 created the first color projected image (overlayed green, red, and blue)

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George Eastman

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American Inventor who, in 1880 developed the 1st portable camera (20 yds of development paper)
1892- founded Eastman Kodak Company

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7
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere

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French brothers who created the 1st autochrome in 1907

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8
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Hasselblad

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1948- 1st Medium Format SLR Camera

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9
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SLR - Single Lens Reflex

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A reflex camera in which the lens that forms the image on the film also forms the image on the viewfinder

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10
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Steve Sasson

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1975- 1st attempted Digital Camera

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11
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Digital

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1991- Kodak Digital, weighed 5k and cost $22,000

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12
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Eadweard Muybridge

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English Photographer and inventor, famous for stop motion photos, invented zoopraxiscope (beginning of motion pictures) Answered horse question.

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13
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Dorothea Langue

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American Documentary Photographer famous for Depression, showed reality, life as it is, not idealized

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14
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Ansel Adams

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American Environmentalist who took black and white photos of American West - got crazy contrast

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15
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Henri Cartier Bresson

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Master of Candid Photography - “the decisive moment”

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16
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Youseph Karsh

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American-Canadian Photographer -portrait, theatrical lighting

17
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Jay Maisel

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US Photographer, now teacher “try to go out empty and let your images fill u up”