photography

Camera Obscura

• Prototype for the modern camerA

• The first negative-positive photographic process

• First true photograph

Heliograph

• First true photograph

• The first journalist to use photos along his writing

• A Collodion wet-plate process that used a metal plate

Daguerreotype

• The first practical photographic process: resulted in a one-of-a-kind images

• First true photograph

• Small portraits often given to friends and family

Calotype

• The first negative-positive photographic process

• first true photograph

Collodion wet plate processes

• Plates developed wet

  Tin Type: A collodion wet plate process that used a metal plate

  Ambrotype: A collodion wet plate process that used a glass plate

• Photography was both objective yet personal

George Eastman

• Eastman Kodak Company (For cameras)

• First Journalist

• Straight Photographer

Roll Film

• a strip of film with space for several exposures. (for action photos)

• A strip of film for simple photos

gelatin emulsion

• made with silver bromide or silver iodide. First used on glass plates, later on flexible plastic rolls on film

• German Art school at the center of radical art, design and thinking.

Jacob Riis

• The first journalist to use photos along his writing

• Creator of Eastman Kodak Company