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Micahelangelo, known as the greatest sculptor in the history of sculpting created David in Florence.
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Professor Johann Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask and notices a darkening on the side of the flask that is exposed to sunlight.
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The first photographic image was created with the camera obscura.
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William Henry Talbot patented the calotype which made it possible for multiple copies of a picture.
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The first color photograph was taken in 1861. Three black and white images were passed through filters to make the color.
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Brady started taking pictures of the civil war, which put him at a lot of risk but inspired other photographers.
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Center of period when the U.S. congress sent photographers out West to take the pictures. The most famous pictures were taken by William Jackson and Tim O'Sullivan.
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George Eastman sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, New York and the first half-tone photograph appears in the New York Graphic, a Newspaper.
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Cameras that did not require tripods became widely available.
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It can be said that Pablo Picasso's career started this year.
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Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen was the first person to take an x-ray picture.
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Oskar Barnack while working for Ernst Leitz invented the first still working 35mm camera.
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Photographs and text were reguarly used in magazines.
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Polaroid introduced the first color film.
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The first picture of the Earth was taken from the moon in 1968