Weekly Vocab

35 mm camera - 35 mm film is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography.

Bang Bang Club - The Bang Bang Club was a label primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994, during the transition from the apartheid system to government based on universal suffrage.

Zoom lens -  zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length (FFL) lens.

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery - The National Portrait Gallery is an historic art museum located at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building.

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Freelancer - person who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long-term

VII Photo Agency - photo agency representing 30 photojournalists, known for its focus on conflict photography

Realism - attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements

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Bauhaus: The Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus during the first years of its existence did not have an architecture department.
Telephoto Lens: specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length
Photomicrograph:  micrograph prepared using an optical microscope, a process referred to as photomicroscopy

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Vest Pocket Kodak: The Vest Pocket Kodak cameras were a best-selling folding camera series made by Eastman Kodak (Rochester), from 1912 to 1926. They were the first cameras to use the smaller 127 film reels.

Meniscus Lens: Convex-concave (meniscus) lenses can be either positive or negative, depending on the relative curvatures of the two surfaces. A negative meniscus lens has a steeper concave surface and will be thinner at the centre than at the periphery.

Rapid Rectilinear Lens (RR Lens): The Rapid Rectilinear is a lens that is symmetrical about its aperture stop with four elements in two groups. It was introduced by John Henry Dallmeyer in 1866. The symmetry of the design greatly reduces radial distortion. 

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