THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EYE

Early Photography — Photography Reading Worksheet for Chapter 1 — Answers
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Period
32. In 1851, Frederick Scott Archer introduced the collodian wet-plate process which produced a high-
quality image and multiple copies.
33. The collodian process was difficult to use.
34. A clean glass plate had to be coated with collodian and while still damp, the plate had to be dipped into silver nitrate,
inserted into the camera and exposed, then developed immediately
35. Photography, dominated by the collodian and daguerreotype processes, began to take— oil.
36. Cameras were used to photograph portraits, landscapes and battles .
37. Tourists collected inexpensive prints of local attractions.
38. The stereoscopic camera that produced a three-dimensional image was introduced in 1849.
39. As early as 1850 books of photographs were published showing the harsh conditions
of life in England and the U.S.
40. Lewis Hine produced powerful photographs that helped to bring about new laws to protect
children's rights.
41. At the start of the Civil War, Mathew Brady asked for permission to carry his cameras
onto the battlefields.
42. In the 1880s, Eadweard Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope that produced a series of images of a
moving subject.
43. Though early photographers often achieved a high degree of aesthetic quality, their primary purposes were
practical .
44. They were to promote social reform, record events and aid scientific invpsfiontinng
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