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Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Joseph Nicephore Niepce was, in 1793, one of the first people to be able to "print" the light on a surface without using any type of ink, but the images disappeared after a while. -
The first photograph of indefinite duration
In 1824 he managed to find a method that allowed images to last longer and in 1826 the first photograph of indefinite duration was recorded, which still exists today. -
Daguerreotype
Daguerre wanted to take photography to more people and started to study Niepce's methods to create a mechanism that everyone could use at home to capture special moments.He received support from the French government and made all of his work publicly available for research. From this partnership came the daguerreotype. This was the first method of capturing images marketed at scale, thus marking the beginning of the era of photography in the world.
Obviously this was limited to rich audience -
The creation of Kodak
In 1880, George Eastman opened a dry plate breeding company that would later be called the Eastman Kodak Company.In a few years, the company was able to launch its first camera. The creation of Kodak can be considered as one of the biggest revolutions in photography. -
Autochromes of the Lumière brother
Color photography just become commercial and viable around 1940, but it existed a long time before that. The Lumière brothers invented colored autochromes, which were patented in 1903 and were the main method of capturing color images until the first color films for cameras appeared. -
Kodachromes
In 1935 Kodak launched Kodachromes, a type of slide film that allowed color photos to be taken with the brand's cameras. -
Agfacolor Neu
In 1936, the German company Agfa launched Agfacolor Neu, a color film that, for the first time in history, could be developed in any laboratory. All color films produced later use this capture method. -
photography was no longer an elite technology
In 1970s, most of the photographs taken were already colored and photography was no longer an elite technology, practically anyone could have a camera at home. -
Nowadays
Currently, after 182 years of the official birth of photography, any cell phone has a camera that takes photos, without the need for development. In this way, photography has ceased to be just a way of keeping a special memory to become a separate means of communication.