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| Be able to describe how the photo of "The Migrant Mother" affected the lives of the photographer and subject. |
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| The photographer, Dorothea Lange, was on her way back from a month-long job when she passed a “Pea-Pickers Camp” on the side of the road. She turned around and found a pregnant Florence Thompson caring for her two daughters while her sons went to get help to fix their broken down car. The photograph Lange took of Thompson appeared in news stories about the poor pickers, and prompted the government to donate over 20,000 pound of food to the camp. Despite Lange’s success after this photograph, she would always be known for this work. Thompson, however, left with her family before enjoying relief efforts at the camp. It took 44 years for her to be recognized as the woman in the photograph, and she was bitter about the fact that it had made Lange so famous while not improving her life at all. |
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| Who is called the founder of photography? In what year did he produce his first photograph? What was the process called? |
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| Joseph Nicephore Niepce; 1826; heliography |
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| What is calotype? Who invented this process? |
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| William Henry Fox Talbot; produce a negative of the image, then produce a positive by placing another sheet of sensitized paper on top of the negative and expose it to the sun. |
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| What was the name of the first book published with photographs? In what year was it published? |
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| The Pencil of Nature; 1844 |
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| Who invented the Kodak camera? In what year was the camera introduced? Why was this camera significant in photo history? |
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Definition
| George Eastman introduced the $25 Kodak camera in 1888. (that’s about $500 today). This camera started the amateur photography craze and made it much easier to develop pictures. It stored 100 exposures, and photographers would send the camera away in exchange for the negatives. |
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| Why was LA Times photographer Brian Walski fired? |
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| For a photo composite he created as a photojournalist covering the war in Iraq. |
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