Famous Photographers
This person is considered the father of modern photography and was a staunch advocate of Pictorialism.
Alfred Stieglitz
Developed by George Eastman, this camera made photography accessible to the masses in an easy point and shoot format.
Kodak Camera # 1
The first publicly available photographic process widely used in the 1840s-1850s
daguerreotype
Describes early photography of the sky
Astrophotography
This photographer was known for environmental photography and frequently took portraits of people working or sitting around the house, normal activities.
Arnold Newman
"There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," This photographer is credited with coining the phrase, decisive moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
What is a Voightlander Machine?
The first all metal daguerreotype camera
A photographic process in which negatives were made using silver iodine
Calotype
Originally captured by Valentine Blanchard, street scenes in London became the first of what photography style?
Instantaneous Photography
This photographer was was known for photographing the Spanish Civil war with the Leica II 35MM camera.
Robert Cappa
On October 13, 1860 this photographer took the first aerial photographs of American landscape.
James Wallace Black
This four element Tessar developed by Paul Rudolph for the Zeiss company in 1902 would eventually become the standard for large, medium and and compact form camera was the origin for what modern camera element?
Zoom lens
The pleasing or aesthetic quality of out-of-focus blur in a photograph.
Boken effect
Also known as color fringing, is a color distortion that creates an outline of unwanted color along the edges of objects in a photograph
Chromatic Photography
John Lennon
This German-American artist was a prominent creator of photogravure, etching photographs to make a more artistic image
A type of camera that is used by through a small hole or lens at a darkened room and projecting the image on a wall or table opposite the hole
Camera Obscura
Developed by the Lumiere brothers, this was the first color processing
autochrome
The style of photography that ensures both sides of an image are equally weighted. This allows the photo to be viewed equally, either vertically or horizontally.
Symmetry
What is the style of photography in which objects can be seen in water, glass or mirrors?
Reflective Symmetry
This photographer became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
First developed in 1832 and modified in 1849 by Sir David Brewster, this camera used two lens placed a similar distance apart to human eyes, positive prints were then mounted side by side.
stereograph
This development style uses continuous tonalities of photographic prints or negatives into a series of dots.
Halftone
A composition guideline that places your subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two thirds more open.
The rule of thirds
This mathematician is credited for taking the first selfie in Philadelphia 1839.
Robert Cornelius