Week 1 Overview

What you will be learning:

• Early Discoveries in Photography
  • The first Camera types, the first photograph and the first few early forms of photography: Daguerrotypes, Calotypes, Plates, etc. 
• Accessibility of Photography
  • Inventions that allowed photography to be utilized by every person. 
• Photography's ability to communicate:Mass Communication and News/Current Events
  • How articles and periodicals used photography to communicate
• Photography's new aesthetics
  • How inventors created the first color images

What you will be doing:

• Participating in the discussion for Week 1: Investigating photography in your own personal history
• Completing the comprehensive exam of week 1