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This 20-card flashcard set covers the history of photography from its early innovations through digital technology. It includes key processes and formats—daguerreotype, calotype, ambrotype, tintype, and autochrome—alongside pioneering photographers like Nicéphore Niepce, Louis Daguerre, and Eadweard Muybridge. Use it for art history review, exam preparation, or to reinforce material in a photography or visual arts course.

Subject:
Art
Topic:
Art History
Grade Level:
10th – 12th Grades
Updated January 2025

Terms in This Set

  • Photography
  • Heliograph
  • Daguerreotype
  • Kodak
  • Camera Obscura
  • Ambrotype
  • Tintype/Ferrotype
  • Calotype
  • Niecephore Niepce
  • Louis Daguerre
  • Boulevard du Temple
  • Eadweard Muybridge
  • Autochrome
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • Name the three types of film cameras.
  • What is a Polaroid?
  • Who made the first digital camera?
  • What year was the first digital camera made?
  • What are the four types of digital cameras?
  • Pixel

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