History of Photography

  • Ancient

    Ancient

    Cameras were used to form images on dark walls. The images were formed using a pinhole.
  • Creation of First photo

    Professor J. Schulze mixed chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask; and saw darkening on the side of a flask that was exposed to sunlight which created the first picture.
  • Permanent image

    Permanent image

    Niépce created the first permanent image ever!
  • Louis Daguerre

    Louis Daguerre

    Created an imageon silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and developed it with warmed mercury
  • Henry Fox Talbot

    Henry Fox Talbot

    Henry created the very first ever permant negative picture using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution
  • Adolphe Disderi

    Adolphe Disderi

    Adolphe Disderi developd the carte-de-visite photography in Paris which lead to worldwide boom in portrait studios.
  • Period: to

    American Civil War

    Matthew Brady took 7000 negatives during the American Civil War
  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives

    acob Riis published the image of How the Other Half Lives New york City
  • Child Labor

    Lewis Hine was hired by US National Child Labor Committee to take picture of the children working in the mills to show the dangers.
  • Strobe photography

    Strobe photography

    Harold Edgerton invented strobe photography at MIT.
  • Paris de nuit

    Paris de nuit

  • The Brown Sisters

    The Brown Sisters

    Nicholas Nixon took a picture of his wife and her sisters.
  • Adobe

    Adobe

    Adobe photoshop was released.
  • CD's

    CD's

    Kodak introduced PhotoCD
  • Japan

    Japan

    Camera phones were introduced in 2000 in Japan!