Camera Obscura The natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image.
Daguerreotype Daguerreotype, is a unique image on a silvered copper plate.
Calotype/ Talbotype Early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide.
Collodian wet plate Requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes.
Dorothea Lange American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work.
Lewis Hine American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform.
Matthew Brady One of the earliest photographers in American history, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
Eadward Muybridge An English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.