History of photography

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/history-of-photography

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the earliest documented light sensitivity observation?Johann Heinrich Schulze observed light-induced changes in silver salts around 1717
2. What is the first successful permanent photograph?Nicéphore Niépce's heliograph, 'View from the Window at Le Gras,' circa 1826-1827
3. What is photography and how did it start?Photography is a way to capture pictures that stay forever. It began when people learned that light could make silver salts dark, and they tried to use this to record images.
4. Who made the first permanent picture?Nicéphore Niépce made the first permanent picture in 1826 or 1827. He used a long exposure of at least eight hours to create "View from the Window at Le Gras."

Camera Obscura: An optical device projecting an external image into a darkened enclosure, a precursor to the camera.
Heliography: Nicéphore Niépce's early photographic process utilizing bitumen of Judea, known for extremely long exposures.
Daguerreotype: A unique, highly detailed photographic image produced on a silver-surfaced copper plate, announced in 1839.
Calotype: Henry Fox Talbot's paper-based photographic process creating a negative from which multiple positive prints could be made.