The History of
Photography
A History of Photographic Processes
How did people come up with the idea of creating images from light? Actually,
it all began with a very old idea --
The Camera Obscura.
Check
it out!
Photographic Processes Matching Activity
This activity has you put the development of certain photographic processes in
order (you also get who developed them or discovered them). You can find them in
chapter one of Michael F. O'Brien and Norman Sibley's book, The Photographic Eye
or research at the link provided here.
Use the same History of
Photography link to research the answers to the following questions. First,
print out this worksheet and write your answers directly onto it.
The History of Photography Scavenger Hunt Questions
- What is a "camera obscura"?
- When was the first successful picture produced and by whom?
- The first quick way of creating photographic plates that took only an
hour to develop (but only created one picture and could not be reproduced)
created images called what?
- William Henry Fox Talbot invented what photographic process? What was
the great advantage of that process?
- Frederick Scott Archer invented a much faster process called what?
- What photographer took photographs of children working in factories in
an effort to get child labor laws passed?
- What photographer documented the American Civil War?
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This interactive crossword puzzle is good review for the history of
photography.
Each pair of students will do a PowerPoint presentation of one of the following
photographers:
19th Century
Julia Margaret Cameron
Pictorialism
Alfred Stieglitz
Surrealists
André Breton
Man Ray
André Kertész
Paul Strand
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