Review Questions: Early History of Photography – AWT3M – Mr. Martin

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1.

a. What device is the man using in the top picture?

b. What did he and Leonardo da Vinci use it for?

c. What other use did this device have?

d. How did Kepler improve it?

2.

a. When and how did Wedgewood create the first photographic images?

b. Why are there none of Wedgewood’s examples around today?

3.

a. Roughly describe the technology and technique used in the creation of Niepce’s famous images in 1825?

b. Niepce’s photo from 1827 looks worse than the one of the man and the horse from 1825. Why is it more important in the history of photography?

4.

a. What chemicals and type of metal plate did Niepce and Daugerre use in 1835 to make permanent images with a camera Obscura?

b. What problem did they share with Wedgewood?

c. How did they solve this problem in 1837?

5.

a. The Boulevard du Temple photo from 1838 is one of the first examples of what kind of photograph?

b. It’s actually of a busy street. Why can you see only one person in it?

6. What does it mean when it says the Calotype used a negative-positive paper process?

7. Why were Daguerreotypes more popular than Calotypes, even though Calotypes looked way better?