THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EYE

Early Photography — Reading Worksheet for Chapter 1 — Answers
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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 major influence on our society.
2. We encounter hundreds of photographs every day, some with tremendous impact, some with
none .
3. How long has photography been around? Any guess over 150 years would be reasonably correct.
4. There isn't any one correct answer.
5. No one person can be credited with inventing photography.
6. The first printed photographs were made between 1816 and 1840
7. The first recorded discovery that a certain chemical turned black when exposed to light was made in 1725
8. The basic design of the camera has been in use since the 1500s
9. The Chinese figured it out even longer ago than that—as early as the fourth century.
10. Photography is between 1.500 and 150 years old.
11. The first stage of photography's evolution in Europe was the camera obscura.
12. Camera is Latin for chamber; obscura mean dark .
13. The camera obscura was a room with one tiny hole fitted with a lens
14. The image was upside down and not very clear but it could be traced.
15. Portable versions of the camera obscura were developed by the 1660s .
16. In 1725 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered a mixture that turned purple in sunlight.
17. Silver salt was causing the reaction to light