Flashcards on The Evolution of Photography
The Evolution of Photography: History, Inventors & Digital Age
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History of Photography
18 cards
Card 1
Question: What is photography (literal meaning) and what does it involve beyond a technical process?
Answer: Photography literally means "drawing with light." It involves capturing reality using light and also functions as an artistic form where composition,
Card 2
Question: What device was the forerunner of photography and how did it work?
Answer: The Camera Obscura ("dark room") projected an inverted, reversed image of an outside scene onto an opposite surface by light passing through a small h
Card 3
Question: Who took the first permanent photograph and what process did he use?
Answer: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first permanent photograph in 1826 using heliography (a sunlight-based photographic process).
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Question: What is the title of the first photograph captured by Niépce and when was it made?
Answer: View from the Window at Le Gras, captured in 1826.
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Question: Who invented the daguerreotype and what material did it use?
Answer: Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype, which used a silver-plated copper plate.
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Question: What photographic method did William Fox Talbot invent and what key principle did it introduce?
Answer: William Fox Talbot invented the calotype (talbotype), using paper coated with silver iodide, and introduced the negative–positive principle allowing m
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Question: Why was the calotype less popular than the daguerreotype in some places?
Answer: The calotype produced grainy or fuzzy images, making it less popular than the sharper daguerreotype, though it remained popular in the UK and parts of
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Question: Who first introduced the three-color method and when was the first color photograph produced using it?
Answer: James Clerk Maxwell introduced the three-color method in 1855, and the first color photograph using it was produced by Thomas Sutton in 1861.
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Question: What was the Hillotype and why was it later criticized?
Answer: The Hillotype, created by Levi Hill in 1850, was an early color photography experiment later found to reproduce only a few colors photographically, wi
Card 10
Question: What color photography process did the Lumière brothers patent and when?
Answer: The Lumière brothers patented Autochrome in 1903, an additive color mosaic screen plate process.