History of Photography

Part 1 Review
Arturo Martinez

1
 Camera Obscura
✘ A darkened box with convex lens or aperture for projecting the
imagine of an object onto the screen inside , important historically
in the development of photography.
✘ Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhazen in the West) was the world’s first scientist
and experimented with light , he also creates the camera obscura.
✘ This invention still matters today because it was like the great great
great grandmother of our modern day projectors.

2
 Daguerreotype
✘ A photograph taken by an early photographic process employing
an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.
✘ Louis Daguerre collaborated with Joseph Niepce to invent the
daguerreotype.
✘ Although they are well known today , daguerreotypes were merely
one of the several competing formats in nineteenth-century
photography until the 1850’s when different emulsion were created.

3
 Alexander Wolcott
✘ Alexander wolcott was born during 1804 in new york and died march
26, 1844 in stamford connecticut.
✘ He was the first american patent issued in photography for his
“mirror camera” , he DID NOT actually invent a camera.
✘ He is still important today because he was the one who created the
first portrait studios , and this is where the first ideas for
photography.

4
 Calotype
✘ A sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a
camera obscura; those areas hit by light became dark in tone,
yielding negatives of a photograph.
✘ Created by William Henry Talbot , this was the negative-positive
process.
✘ This is still important today because this was kind of the first
negative that we see , and then also this is the idea of making
multiple copies of a picture.