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Week 1: Sun prints

We started our class by learning about the earliest history of photography, and by making shadow images using some of these crude and simple photo processes. Here you see students making copies of semi transparent objects using sun prints with cyanotype paper.

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Week 1: History & Sun Prints

Welcome to another year of Photography at Menlo School!

We started our first week of school with learning about Early Photo History. Students were paired up, did some internet research and then provided short presentations on the following milestones in photographic history:

Camera Obscura

French Inventors: Niepce & Daguerre

English Inventor: Fox-Talbot

First photo of a human being

Civil War era photographs by Mathew Brady

George Eastman and Kodak

First color, and first digital photography

Students also began to learn about EXPOSURE through the use of Sun Prints (also known as manufactured cyanotype paper) which are sensitive to the UV component in sunlight. Students made their first  images using a simple shadow printing process, which is illustrated below. 

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