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Evolution of Photography

By brandibaumes
  • First photographic image

    First photographic image

    First Permanent imageJoseph Nicéphore Niépce used a camera obscura to burn a permanent image of the countryside at his Le Gras, France, estate onto a chemical-coated pewter plate. He developed heliography and produced the world's oldest survived photograph.
  • First Photograph of A Human Being

    First Photograph of A Human Being

    Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre photographed a Paris street scene from his apartment window using a camera obscura and his daguerreotype process, a man stopped for a shoeshine and remained still long enough and became the first person to be ever photographed.
  • First Colored Photograph

    First Colored Photograph

    first colored pictureJames Clerk Maxwell created a color image by superimposing on a single screen with three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue.
  • First Action Photograph

    First Action Photograph

    first action image Eadweard Muybridge began taking photographs that captured animals and humans in motion.
  • First Underwater Colored Photograph

    First Underwater Colored Photograph

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    William Longley and Charles Martin used an Auto chrome camera and a raft of flash powder to clarify the shallows of Florida's Dry Tortugas and made the first undersea color photographs. They showed reef scenes with fish.
  • First Photograph From Space

    First Photograph From Space

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory strapped a 35-millimeter camera to a German V-2 missile and launched it into space in New Mexico.
  • First Photographic Map of The Night Sky

    First Photographic Map of The Night Sky

    Night Sky National Geographic teamed up with California Institute of Technology for a seven-year project to produce the first photographic map of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky.
  • First Digital Imaging Processor

    First Digital Imaging Processor

    Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.

  • First Still Digital Camera

    Kodak released the first professional digital camera in 1991. It was extremely expensive and marketed to professional photographers.
  • First Magazine In Colour

    First Magazine In Colour

    National Geographic magazine became the first major American periodical to print an all-color issue.