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Birth of Photography

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In 1826, who produced the first surviving photographic image?
Nicéphore Niépce
What was used to produce the first photographic image?
A polished pewter plate
Who collaborated with Nicéphore Niépce to invent a more practical process of photography?
Louis J.M. Daguerre
Who took the earliest known photograph of a human being?
Louis J.M. Daguerre
Who invented the calotype or photo negative?
William Henry Fox Talbot
What were the advantages of wet-plate photography over earlier forms of photography?
It reduced exposure times while retaining a precise image.
What were the advantages of dry plate photography?
Images were able to be preserved for a longer time before developing, the speed of exposure was faster, and photographers did not need a tripod.
During what time period were portable hand-held cameras and roll film invented?
The 1800s
What is a shutterbug?
An amateur photographer.
What genre of photography convinced U.S. legislators to establish the first national park system?
Travel photography
Who documented the horrors of the U.S. Civil War?
Matthew Brady
Who published a book of photos that detailed the shocking conditions of the squalid tenements located on Manhattan's Lower East Side?
Jacob Riis
What was the name of Jacob Riis's book and when was it published?
How the Other Half Lives, 1890.
What was Jacob Riis's job?
He was a New York police reporter.
Jacob Riis's graphic images of the squalid tenements in New York lead to the first legislation to:
Reform housing codes and labor laws.
Who photographed the leading artistic figures of Paris, beginning in 1853?
Nadar
What is a caricaturist?
A person who draws people or animals with exaggerated features to make the image look comical.
Who invented aerial photography?
Nadar
What photographer was among the first to use of electric light for portrait photographs?
Nadar
What is an immobilizer?
A special Chair with clamps that was used by early photographers to keep their subjects still.
Who said, "When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty toward them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph best taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer"?
Julia Margaret Cameron
Who was the first photographer to employ soft-focus effects in order to convey atmosphere in a photograph?
Julia Margaret Cameron
Whit the invention of photography, who declared, "From this day, painting is dead!"
Delaroche
What type of artwork became obsolete with the invention of the daguerreotype?
Painting of miniature portraits.
What artist used photographs as studies for hard to hold poses that he later incorporated into paintings?
Delacroix
What other artists used photographs to record images for paintings, including panoramic landscapes and action shots?
Bierstadt, Courbet, Manet, and Degas.
What art genre in painting compositions became popular as a direct result of the invention of photography?
Abstraction
Who declared photography as, "more than arch, it is a solar phenomenon, where the artist collaborates with the sun."?
Lamartine
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