A Brief History in Photography

1957

1957 BCE

In 1957, Russell Kirsch took the first digital photo of one of his three month old son.

1951

1951 BCE

In the 1951, Frederick Scott Archer was well known for inventing the collodon process.

1900

1900 BCE

In the 1900 Borwnie was the first company that produced Eastman Koda, who male low cost camera's.

1861

1861 BCE

In 1861, a man called James Clerk Maxwell introduced the first colour photography.

1839 - Photography

1839 BCE

In 1839 people discovered how to project images onto light-sensitive surfaces that would retain the images after the exposure therefore it's the year photography was found.

Photography Inventors

1839 BCE

British scientist Henry Fox Talbot who used calotype process using papers which allowed manny copies to be created from a single negative. Louis Daguerre, french artists and chemist who developed something called a "Daguerreotype" which used a silvered plate to produce a sharper image. However, the daguerreotype could make positive photos so therefore copies had to be made by taking another photograph. Nevertheless, the daguerreotype became the first commercially successful photographic process.

9TH CENTURY - AL HAZEN - CAMERA OBSCURA

384 BCE

Camera obscura is a device that projects an image of it's surroundings onto a screen which was created between 384BC.

LEONARDO DAVINCI 1452 - 1519

May 1, 1452

Leonardo Davinci used the camera obscura method to introduce 3D scenes into flat paint so that they could copy things such as prospective more easily.

JOHANN HEINRICH SCHULTZ - 1724

May 16, 1724

Johann Heinrich Schultz discovered the exposing certain silver compounds to light over their appearance and left marks wherever the light touched therefore Mr Schultz discovered way to record the images AL HAZEN projected.