| A | B |
|---|
| photography | "writing with light" |
| Sir John Herschel | first used the word photography in 1839 |
| Chinese | first wrote about the camera obscura |
| camera obscura | "dark room" |
| Jan Vermeer | painter who used the camera obscura to help achieve realistic images |
| Johann Henrich Schultz | learned that silver salts changed color when exposed to light in 1727 |
| Thomas Wedgewood | in 1800, made sun pictures on leather but couldn't make the stay |
| Joseph Nicephore Niepce | took the world's first picture |
| Louis Daguerre | create the daguerrotype which made images permanent |
| William Henry Fox Talbot | used paper instead of metal plates to make calotypes |
| portraits | made daguerrotype popular |
| Samuel Morse | made photography popular in America |
| Frederick Schott Archer | 1851- Collodian process, used glass plates instead of paper |
| tintype | used an iron plate instead of a glass plate |
| Matthew Brady | documented the Civil War in photographs |
| Edward Muybridge | took pictures of a horse galloping, capturing the motion of the horse in 1/25 second increments |
| George Eastman | made photography cheap and easy so more people could do it |
| panchromatic | the first color film (1906) |
| Kodachrome | first full color roll film (1936) |
| Polaroid | developed the first instant color film (1963) |
