THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EYE

Early Photography — Reading Worksheet for Chapter 1
Period
Please read pages 10-15 in The Photographic Eye: Learning to See with a Camera. Fill in this worksheet as you read.
You are responsible for the material to be read. Be sure to spend some time looking at the pictures.
1. Photography began as a curiosity and has grown into a . influence on our society.
2. We encounter hundreds of photographs every day, some with tremendous impact, some with
3. How long has photography been around? Any guess over
4. There isn't any one answer.
5. No one person can be credited with
6. The first printed photographs were made between 1816 and
. photography.
years would be reasonably correct.
7. The first recorded discovery that a certain chemical turned black when exposed to light was made in
8. The basic design of the camera has been in use since the .
9. The. figured it out even longer ago than that—as early as the fourth century.
10. Photography is between .
1 1. The first stage of photography's .
12. Camera is Latin for chamber; obscura means.
and 150 years old.
13. The camera obscura was a room with one tiny hole fitted with a .
14. The image was upside down and not very _
15. Portable versions of the camera obscura were developed by the .
in Europe was the camera obscura.
. but it could be traced.
16. In 1725 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered a mixture that turned . . in sunlight.
17. Silver salt was causing the reaction to .