Q1. Who invented photography?
Photography was invented by Louis Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot.
Q2. What is camera obscura?
Camera obscura is an optical phenomenon where a dark room contains a small hole that projects an image opposite of the hole.
Q3. What is a Daguerreotype?
Daguerreotype was invented by Louis Daguerreotype. It involves a mirrored metal plate where light is reflected back through the image. It only produces one off images like a polaroid camera. People look barely there and at the edge of being present.
Q4. What did Chuck Close say about photography?
Chuck close said that photography was an intrusion into the flow of time. He stated that there is no physicality to a photo.
Q5. What is Muybridge’s contribution to photography?
Muybridge contributed mammoth landscapes and a 360° panorama photograph of his city. He also contributed the idea of motion in photography and invented the zoopraxiscope.
Q6. What is Eastman’s contribution to photography?
Eastman made photography more affordable for everyday people. He invented the Kodak camera which allowed people to have fun and experiment with photography. The pictures on the camera could be developed and shipped back with a brand new roll of film. People now smiled in photographs and there were more accidental masterpieces of photography.
Lisa Burke CM122 