| A | B |
| Eadweard Muybridge | stop action photography, the forerunner to motion pictures |
| Louis Daguerre | discovered that light sensitive particles of silver, suspended in solution and exposed to light, would create images |
| latent image | image on an exposed film frame, before it is developed |
| Lewis Hine | photographed immigrants and children at work, helped change child labor laws |
| Dorothea Lange | photos of poverty during depression |
| Matthew Brady | photogrphed in battlefields during Civil War |
| George Eastman | invented the process of roll film |
| Length photography has been around | Over 150 years |
| Photography | drawing with light |
| Camera Obscura | box on wheels early artist used to get projected images of landscapes, works like the human eye |
| 35 mm | most common format of film |
| Life Magazine | magazine that documented stories with pics rather than words |
| Alfred Steiglitz | photographer and art dealer - established photography as valid art form |
| No Light | conditions needed to load panchromatic film |
| Braces/Clamps | used to help people hold still for early photos |
| Daguerreotype | mirror with a memory |
| Photojournalist | Takes photos in the field to document events |
| Photogram | contact print, requires no negative |
| Panchromatic | Most common consumer film used |
| Fox Talbot | Established the basis of modern photography |
| Nicephore Niepce | Produced the first successful photograph |