Discuss the early history of photography, noting those who first used the medium and the first photographic processes
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The camera obscura enabled an artist to capture, but not preserve, an image.
2. In the nineteenth century, ways of preserving the image were introduced in England and France.
3. In England, William Henry Fox Talbot presented a process of fixing the image on paper treated with chemicals. Using paper, Talbot was able to create multiple prints.
4. In France, Daguerre invented a method of preserving an image on a metal plate, called a daguerreotype. The daguerreotype could not be reproduced.
5. In the mid-nineteenth century, Frederick Archer introduced a new wet-plate collodion process, pouring liquid collodion over a glass plate.
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