Inquiry #9: "View in the Field, on the West Side of Hagerstown Road, After the Battle of Antietam"

1. Image

2. The photograph was taken by Alexander Gardner

3. One of his clients was Abraham Lincoln

4. This photograph was taken on November 8th, 1863. It is a head-shot of Abraham Lincoln two weeks before his Gettysburg Address.

Inquiry #10: Eadweard Muybridge

1. Image
 
2. He was doing photographic studies of motion and early work in motion-pictures
3. To take the pictures, he lined up numerous cameras and, when the horse ran across a string, it would set off the camera and take a picture.

Inquiry #8: Julia Margaret Cameron

1. Link
2. Her photography style was characterized as "slovenly."
3.  She was born on June 11, 1815 and died January 2, 1879.
4. I like this photograph of hers because there is much detail to it. There's side light which gives it a little bit of a dramatic flare and only part of it is focused.

5. Her photography didn't start to become widely known until around 1948.

Triptych

Inquiry #7: Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne

2. Post an image

3. The name of this image is "The Old Man"
4. Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne was documenting different facial expressions when exposed to electrostimulus.

Inquiry #6: The First Color Photograph

1. The image

2. The image was taken by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861
3. He took a picture of a tartan ribbon
4. The photographer used blue, red, and yellow filters then combined them to create this image
Bonus: This type of color is called Additive color. A common example of Additive color can befound in color television

INQUIRY #5: "Self-portrait as a Drowned Man"

1. Find the image


2. Hippolyte Bayard created this image
3. The image was created on August 19th, 1839
4. He was provoked by the failure of the French authorities to recognize his own discovery of the photographic process similar to Daguerre's.
5. Wild hippopotami kill more than 2,900 people every year
6. The French word for "hippopotamus" is "hippopotame"

Inquiry #4: Boulevard du Temple

1. Image:


2. The image was taken by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1838
3. Ten to fifteen minutes
4. A museum curator attempted to clean the original image and wiped the slate clean
5. The person, who's shoe is getting shined, could possibly be named Jacques
6. A famous landmark in Paris, France is the Louvre
7. Édith Piaf was the original singer of "La Vie en Rose"

Robert Cornelius and the World's First Self-Portrait

1. The portrait was taken in 1839
2. The exposure time was three to fifteen minutes
3. He was a Chemist
E.C. Scientists used silver and other chemicals to absorb light to produce an image.
4 It was called a daguerreotypy
5. This "selfie" was made in Philadelphia
6. On the back was written, "The first light Picture ever taken."
7. He went back to work for his family's lamp business
8. Robert Cornelius was 84  when he died
9. If the photographer were to have #hashtagged it and posted to Instagram, what would the "#hashtag/#hashtags" have been?
            #FirstSelfPortrait #ImCallingItSelfie #NoFilter

PHOTOGRAPHER #2: "View from the Window at Le Gras" by Nicéphore Niépce

What is it: "View from the Window at Le Gras" is the oldest surviving camera photograph and a heliographic image.

Image:


Who is the Photographer: The photographer of this picture was Nicéphore Niépcea

Country of Origin: France

How long was the exposure: About 8 hours

Where is the photo kept now: University of Texas

PHOTOGRAPHER #1: EUGENE RICHARDS

Name: Eugene Richards

Born/Died: April 25, 1944 (still alive)

Country of Origin: United States

Well Known Image:

Something About Him: He worked as a freelance magazine photographer, taking on assignments  on different topics such as the American family, drug addiction, emergency medicine, pediatric AIDS, aging and death in America