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The History of Photography

The History of Photography. Paola Lynn Lubo Antonia Klaussner. Define Photography:. Greek: photos (light) and graphein (to draw) First used by scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel (1839) Method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation on a sensitive material.

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The History of Photography

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  1. The History of Photography Paola Lynn Lubo Antonia Klaussner

  2. Define Photography: • Greek: photos (light) and graphein (to draw) • First used by scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel (1839) • Method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation on a sensitive material.

  3. Camera Obscura • Invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham) around 1000 AD. • The first name was pinhole camera. • Pictures were upside down.

  4. The First Photograph Joseph NicephoreNiepce: “View from the Window at Le Gras” in 1827 or 1828

  5. The Daguerreotype • Louis Daguerre introduced the daguerreotype process on August 1839. - Formed a partnership with Joseph Niepce to Improve upon the photography.

  6. Gelatin Emulsion • A photographic process in which gelatin is used as the dispersing vehicle for light-sensitive salts.

  7. Action Photograph and Muybridge • Founded by Eadweard Muybridge. • Known as ‘Father of Motion Picture’.

  8. Zoetrope • Invented by William George Horner in 1834. • Consisted of a drum containing a set of still images, that was turned in a circular fashion in order to create moving images.

  9. Kodak • George Eastman was an avid photographer and founder of Eastman Kodak Company. • It was founded in 1888.

  10. Digital Photography • The basic principle of photography is a camera sees an object because of the light which is reflected off it and into the camera’s lens. The lens of the camera is used to channel this light onto a plane, where it can be recorded and a photo created by one way or the other.

  11. Resources • http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/firstphotograph/ • http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventions/a/Daguerreotype.htm • http://www.curious-eye.com/photography_pg3.php • http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventions/a/Daguerreotype.htm • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/227932/gelatin-process • http://www.wildfilmhistory.org/person/180/Eadweard+Muybridge.html • http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/zoetrope • http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventors/ss/George_Eastman.htm • http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-digital-photography/

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