History of Photography

By rks4352
  • Jan 1, 1503

    Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa
    The Mona Lisa was created between 1503-1504 in Florence, Italy by a man by the name of Leonardo De Vinci. This is arguably one of the most famous paintings ever.

  • Cupids Frollicking

    Cupids Frollicking
    This painting was done by Giuseppe Maria Crespi in 1700.

  • First photo-sensitive compound

    Professor J Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver. He noticed the side exposed to sunlight becoming darker. Schulze accidently created the first photo-sensitive compound.

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase
    The United States bought land from France.

  • First negative print

    First negative print
    Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first negative print. It was not permanent though. (The image didn't last very long)

  • The Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine
    The Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States was no longer open to European colonization. It also set the stage for the United States to protect new countries in the Americas.

  • Calotype

    Calotype
    William Henry Talbot invents the Calotype process- the first way to make multiple copies of a photo.

  • First photo of a human

    First photo of a human
    In early 1839, French painer and chemist Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre photographis a Paris street scene from his apartment window. He used a really long exposure so moving objects like people and carriages do not appear in this photo.

  • Charles Daguere

    Invented process using silver on a copper plate called dagguereotype. Revolutionized photography.

  • First book illustrated by photography

    First book illustrated by photography
    Between 1844 and 1846, William Henry Fox Talbot wrote "The Pencil of Nature" and since photography was becoming a huge thing at this time, he used phtographs (rather than drawings) to illustrate his book.

  • Collodion Process

    Frederick Scott Archer invented the collodion process, which was just an early way to develop pictures.

  • First Ariel Photo

    Nadar combined his interests and he became the first photographer to get an ariel photograph from a balloon.

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    The Union v. Confederacy
    Union wins and slavery is abolished!

  • Sensitive silver salts used in liquid collodion

    W.B. Bolton published an idea that would revolutionize photography.

  • First Action Photograph

    First Action Photograph
    Eadweard Muybridge captures both the human and animal in motion. There were 12 cameras set to go off at different times. This is the beginning of cimenatogrophy.

  • First image of a tornado

    First image of a tornado
    The photographer is unknown. This photo was taken in South Dakota.

  • First Kodak Camera

    The first Kodak camera was created. It had a 20-foot roll of paper in it.

  • Starry Night

    Starry Night
    Starry Night is an oil painting created by Van Gogh in 1889. It is said to be one of his best pieces.

  • Photographs Replace Drawings

    Photographs begin to replace drawings in advertisments in 1890!

  • First Underwater Color Photo

    First Underwater Color Photo
    William Longley and Charles Martin use an Autochrome camera to capture the first underwater color photograph.

  • First Digital Still Camera

    First Digital Still Camera
    Kodak releases the first commercially available, professional digital camera in 1991. This device was extremely expensive. Over the years, the company has come up with better, less expensive models.