Exam #1 Study Guide
Exam #1 will cover chapters 1 & 2, and pages 74 - 84, 98 – 156, & 209 - 231 and will be held on Tuesday, February 22

 


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Key Images
Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images.
Artist Title Date

Thumbnail Image

Joseph Niepce View from His Window at Le Gras c. 1826 - 27
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre Le Boulevard Du Temple c. 1838
Hippolyte Bayard Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man 1840
William Henry Fox Talbot The Open Door 1843
J. Zealey Jack 1847
Southworth and Hawes Pastor Rollin Heber Neal c. 1850
Duchenne de Boulogne Study of muscles in the face and emotion 1852 - 56
Roger Fenton The Valley of the Shadow of Death 1855
Dr. Hugh welch Diamond Mental Patient 1855
Carlton E. Watkins Mt. Broderick, Yosemite 1861
Francis Frith The Sphinx and the Great Pyramid at Geezah c. 1862
Matthew Brady Studio Abraham Lincoln c. 1863
Timothy O' Sullivan A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg 1863
Alexander Gardner Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg 1863
William Henry Jackson The Mountain of the Holy Cross 1873
Eadward Muybridge Galloping Horse 1878

 

 

Key Terms
Know the definition and historical significance of the following terms.
Albumen print
Exposure time
Photography
Ambrotype
Manifest Destiny
Picture factories
Calotype
Mexican-American War
Portrait gallery
Camera obscura
Mechanical photography
Positivism
Carte-de-visite
Missions Heliographiques
Post-mortem portraits
Cinematography
Negative image
Stereoscope
Civil War
Objectivity
Subjectivity
Crimean War
Occupation portraits
Tintype
Collodion
The Other
Transparency
Daguerreotype
The Pencil of Nature
Union Case
Daguerreotype saloon
Persistence of vision
Waxed paper process
Ethnographic study
Photogenic drawing
Wet-plate process

 

 

People
Know the contributions, and the significance of those contributions, each of the following people made to the history of photography.
Count Francois Arago
Hippolyte Bayard
Sir John F. W. Herschel

 

 

Questions to consider
What three things are necessary to produce a photographic image?
What image is thought to be the first successful attempt at fixing an image photographically?  How long did it take to expose this image?
Compare and contrast daguerreotype, calotype and wet-plate processes & images.
Compare and contrast albumen prints with waxed paper prints.
In what ways were photographs used to meet the demands of 19th century science?
Was Mathew Brady's Civil War photographic project a profitable venture?
Compare and contrast the image making methods of Eadward Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.  Who is credited with the invention of cinematography?  What devices were the precursors to 19th century film projectors?