Beginnings of Photography

From the camera obscura to

the pinhole camera

Essential questions T- chart

To be answered at the end
Essential Questions
Was photography a discovery
or an invention? How does the
camera obscura work?
What are the three major
components of modern
photography? How is light
important to photo?
Who were the major players
during the advent of
photography? What were their
roles in the development of
photography?
How did the modernization of
photography affect society?

Answers

Vocabulary/Concepts/People
Vocabulary/Concept/People
PhotographyCamera ObscuraAperture-

The Science of photographythree major components of

photography.
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Louis Daguerre
Pinhole camera
Photo chemical-silver nitrate

Define

Vocabulary/Concepts/People
Vocabulary/Concept/People

Define

Photography-

The art or practice of taking and processing

photographs.

Camera ObscuraAperture-

The Science of photographythree major components of

photography.

A darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for

projecting the image of an external object onto a
screen inside.
A space through which light passes in an optical or
photographic instrument, esp. the variable opening by
which light enters a camera.

Light, Time and Chemistry

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Louis Daguerre
Photo chemical-silver nitrate

A chemical compound, AgNO3, that becomes grayish

black when exposed to light in the presence of organic
matter and is used in manufacturing photographic film,
silvering mirrors, dyeing hair, plating silver, and in
medicine as a cautery and antiseptic.

How was the Image on the wall

created?

Camera Obscura
Dark Room

Combines the camera obscura

with light sensitive paper. Niepce
takes
first photo ever taken-8 hour
exposure out of his bedroom
window.

Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype
After working the death of Joseph
Nicephore Niepce, his partner
Louis Daguerre invents a glass
plate negative dipped in light
sensitive solution.

HOW LIGHT and cameras

WORK

Pinhole Camera

Student Reflection
Define modernization.
How has the modernization of
photography influenced society? How
do faster, cheaper cameras affect us?
What do we use them for?
How would the world be different
without photographic images?
How is photography part of your life?
What do you use photography for?

Essential questions T- chart

Essential Questions
Was photography a discovery
or an invention? How does the
camera obscura work?
What are the three major
components of modern
photography? How is light
important to photo?
Who were the major players
during the advent of
photography? What were their
roles in the development of
photography?
How did the modernization of
photography affect society?

Answers

Man Ray Project

Photograms- Negative Images of Objects

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decompressor
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QuickTime and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

Create a Photogram
Using images you brought from home create a photogram
1.
2.

Shoot images of your objects. (Make sure your images are all different shapes
and sizes and have varied lines).
Upload your images

CREATE A NEGATIVE IMAGE!

1. Use Photoshop to create a photogram.
2. Copy and paste all images onto a canvas using the selection tools (magic wand)
3. All of your images must be white
4. Your background must be all one color, different from your images.
5. Print and place your photogram on the gallery wall.