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Joseph Niepce created the first photographic image with camera obscura. The picture took 8 hours to develope in light exposure and later on faded.
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Louis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography. In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Niepce to improve the process he had developed.
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Petzval designed a lens specifically for photographing purposes.
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The first stereographs (stereo vision photographs) were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Science in Brussels.
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Tintypes, patented in 1856 by Hamilton Smith, were another medium that heralded the birth of photography. A thin sheet of iron was used to provide a base for light-sensitive material, yielding a positive image.
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Roger Fenton shot the Crimean war, the worlds first ever war photographs
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The first color photo was taken by James Clerk Maxwell by using three filters - red, blue, and green.
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Auguste Rodin exhibited his first important work, The Bronze Period, it was so realistic that people thought he had sacrificed a live model inside the cast.
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Van gogh painted this peice of art while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy.
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When Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stlen from the Louvre in 1912, 6 replicas were sold as the original in the 3 years before the original was recovered.
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Gerneral Electric invented the firsl modern flash buld.
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins University strapped a 35-millimeter camera to a German V-2 missle and launched it into space.
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