History of photography

  • Dark Rooms

    Dark Rooms
    "Camera Obscura" was used to look at images. It was a dark room with a little hole that brung in natural light to create a beautiful image on the wall.
  • Portable camera obscura!

    Portable camera obscura!
    The camera obscrua became supressed into a small box with a telescope the artist can look through, and it also became portable by the use of sedan chairs.
  • first photo sensitive compound

    first photo sensitive compound
    Professor J. Schulze combines mixed chalk ,nitric acid ,and silver in a flask
  • Thomas Wedgewood creates "sun pictures"

    Thomas Wedgewood creates "sun pictures"
    They are created buy placing an opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate making images deteriorate quickly if its by light stronger than a candle
  • Niepce creates the first permanent image

    Niepce creates the first permanent image
    He did this by using camera obscura and photo sensitive paper
  • Talbot patents his process under the name of Calotype

    Talbot patents his process under the name of Calotype
    His proces is using paper soaked in silver choloride fixed with a salt solution known as a negative and he created a positive by contact printing ontho another piece of paper
  • cabnet cards are created

    cabnet cards are created
    Adolphe Disderi develps carte de visiste photgraphy in paris which led to the boom in portrait studios for the next decade
  • James Clerk meaxwell makes colored photography system

    James Clerk meaxwell  makes colored photography system
    He made them by using 3 black and white photos taken through a red green or blue filter. they would they be turned into lantern slide and projected in registration with the same color filtters which is known as the color seperation method.
  • Mathew brady civil war photography

    Mathew brady civil war photography
    Mathew braphy covered the american civil war shocking the American public
  • Edward Muybridge

    Edward Muybridge
    Immigrates to San Francisco and learns wet-plate collidion process for photography and presents it in Yosemite Park and made him world famous. Also he developed motion picture, or cinematography.
  • dry plate process is created

    dry plate process is created
    Richard leach Maddox an English doctor make the use of an emulsion og elatin and silver bromide on a glass plate the dry plate process
  • First half tone photo appears on news paper

    First half tone photo appears on news paper
    George eastman sets up deastman dryplate company in new york and put the first photo in the new york graphic
  • First Kodak

    First Kodak
    This camera contained a 20ft roll of paper. This produces 100 2.5 inch diiameter circular pictures
  • Brownie Camera

    Brownie Camera
    First camera to introduce the "snap shot". Cost $1 and revolutionized photography