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Origins of Photography 1800s-1839
This era predates the actual start of photography with the developments of processing systems and rudimentary photography devices to begin the actual taking of real images. Niepce developing the first negative. Daguerre developing the first latent image. The discovery of chemicals and processes to advance development of images all led to Daguerre introducing the world to photography in 1839 in Paris -
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The first Industrial Revolution
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Thomas Wedgewood and Humphrey Davy-An experiment in Photography
Thomas Wedgewood was a pioneer in photography. He would use Silver Nitrate and White Leather with Camera Obscura to make pictures. He engaged a young chemist, Humphrey Davy. "In 1802, Davy wrote a text with title “An Account of a Method of copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver, invented by T. Wedgwood, Esq., with Observations by H. Davy”.
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Invention of the steam locomotive
Richard Trevithick invented the steam locomotive in 1804 by altering the design of the steam engine made by James Watt. He thrilled a crowd of 70 people transporting them and 25 tons of iron from Penydarren and Abercynon. http://www.trainhistory.net/train-invention/richard-trevithick/
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War of 1812
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Niepce uses Camera Obscura to make an image
Niepce developed the first image in 1816. He continued his work on developing processes for printing and developing until his death in 1833.
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Creation of first latent Image
Daguerre created the first latent print sometime between 1835 and 1837. This led to his claims later in 1839 of having invented photography with his Daguerreotype photographic process. http://www.photo-museum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/procede-photomecanique-photogravure-daguerreotype.jpg -
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Second Invention of Photography
The Second Invention of Photography is developments after Daguerre's "invention" of photography in Paris in 1839. The introduction of the Daguerreotype, the Calotype by Fox Talbot, the documenting of war scenes, and the Collodion Process or wet-plate process in 1851. -
Daguerre-First Photograph shown in Paris
on August 19, 1839, Daguerre presented his case of having invented photography in Paris. He is recognized as being the "inventor" of photography.
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Fox Talbot Invents and Patents the Calotype
Fox Talbot invented and patented the Calotype in 1841. The Calotype, along with the Daguerreotype, were the two technological advances use during this period to take photographs.
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The Mexican American War 1846-1848
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Stereoscope and Stereographs
The stereoscope was invented in 1850 by Sir William Brewster in England. It gave a 3D perspective of the image by having two pictures to view, one with each eye, that meld together when viewed with both eyes open.
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Collodion Process
The development of the wet-plate process helped reduce the time to develop photographs by using glass rather than paper to support light sensitive material.This process was developed by Fredrick Scott Archer in 1851.
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First Photograph of the Moon 1851
The first photograph of the moon was taken by George Philips Bond and John Adams Whipple in 1851. The photo clearly shows the impact craters on the moon.
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The Crimean War 1853-1856
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Carte-De-Viste Photography
The Carte-de-Viste photography process was patented in 1854 by André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri. It was small photograph that was popular in the late 1850s through the 1880s.
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Pantheon Nadar
This lithographic print was made by Nadar in 1854. It was started to be 1000 celebrities, yet never finished by Nadar. He felt he was not a simple photographer, but an artist. He believed that what cant be learned is the sense of light, how the artistic appreciation of the effects produced by different and combine attributes of light affect how photography is art.
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Expanding Domain of Photography 1854-1880
This was the period of time where photography grew exponentially as better types of processing began to be explored and developed. The Wet Collodion process, Ambrotype, Stereograph, and Carte-De-Viste were all processes or devices that helped change and develop photography during this period. -
Oscar Rejlander and "The Two Ways of Life"
"The Two Ways of Life" is considered the most famous High Art photograph of it's time. Constructed in 1857, it is a series of over 30 images blended together using the process called Combination Printing.
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The Civil War
The Civil War was fought from 1861-1865 over the dispute to allow slavery or not allow slavery. Over 600,000 lives were lost during this war. This was the first war to show the bodies of dead soldiers. Photographs were often staged to enhance the effect of the scenes on battlegrounds. -
Ophilia, Study No 2. by Julia Margaret Cameron 1867
Cameron was famous for the blurred images she produced. This was due to a camera she used with a short focal length early in her career. She decided the style suited her subject matter and kept with it.
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The Long Depression
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Second Industrial Revolution
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Marie Lydie Cabanis Bonfils
Bonfils was one of the few professional women photographers of her time. She and her husband ran their own studio. She was recognized for the photography of Middle Eastern decent without them being considered exotic photos, instead the women were dressed in traditional Middle Eastern wear.
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Photography and Modernity (1880-1918)
This period was where the current or modern manifest destiny of photography began. The "Invention" of the portable camera (the Kodak, the Brownie), The Great Divide between mass media and mass markets, pictorialism, and then photo secessionism helped develop photography from a "recording mechanism" to the transition of photography as an art form, and finally to Modern Life and World War I. Photography in this period set up photography for what it would become. -
Invention of the Automobile-Karl Benz
Karl Benz is created with making the first gasoline operated perpetual motion device, later termed the automobile in 1885. Carl Benz registered a patent on January 29, 1886. https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/The-Benz-patent-motorcar--forerunner-of-all-motor-vehicles.xhtml?oid=9272601 -
Introduction of "The Kodak", first hand held camera
The introduction of "The Kodak" was the beginning of the public having the capability to take photographs themselves and have their own images produced for them. The unit cost $25, so it was expensive for the middle class to buy. It came preloaded with 100 exposures of paper film on a roll.
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The Spanish-American War
This war was a short lived war in 1898. The war started with the sinking of the USS Maine from an explosion while in Cuba. This war made Teddy Roosevelt a hero and eventually would lead to him becoming Vice President and then President of the United States. Teddy's Roughriders earned their name in this war. -
The Kodak "Brownie" Introduced for Casual Photography
The introduction of the "Brownie" by Kodak was a significant event in 1900 in photography. The device sold for $1 and was targeted at children and the middle class. an extension of "The Kodak", it sold over 150,000 units in the first year and propelled Kodak out of the depression of the 1890s.
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Gertrude Kasebier-Pictorialist
The image is of Evelyn Nesbitt. She was a model and actress in the 1900s. This photograph of her was taken in 1900 by Kasebier. Kasebier had a gift for capturing the emotions and allure of women and men alike. She was considered the most successful portrait photography of the early 1900s,
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Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz was a pictorialist until the 1900's. He became a leader of the Photo-secessionst movement due to his disagreements with the pictorialists about the direction of photography as an art. This photo was done as part of series of photos from 1925-1934. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalents#/media/File:Stieglitz_Equivalent_1131.jpg -
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World War I 1914-1918
World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Fought in Europe, the war was emblematic of strife between cultural issues with in Europe and fought between Germany, Britain, France, and the United States.
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