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Joeseph Niepce makes a heiogrpah, words oldest photograph or worlds oldest surviving photograph. He took a picture from outside his window in his estate in Le Gras, France.
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Daguerre announces the daguerreotype, a photographic process that creates a positive image on a copper plate with a thin coat of silver. After that people used this process for almost twenty years.
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Henry Fox Talbot patents his photography process the calotype or talbotype which used a paper coated in silver iodine.
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Roger Fenton got famous off of his war phtotgraphy collection of the Crimean War.
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Louis Ducas de Hauron writes a book on different theories of color photography methods.
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George Eastman introduce frst kodak or brownie camera which was sold for $1 and used fifteen cent rolls. The slogan for kodak was "You press the button - we do the rest." This was the birth of snapshot phototgraphy.
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Margaret Bourke-White was the first woman photgrapher who took picture of the Soviet war and also corresponded with LIFE magazine.
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First autochrome plates produced by Lumiere Brothers.
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Lewis Hine hired by US child labor committee first exposed pictures of child labor of children working at mills.
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Dada started in Switzerland which was a european avant-garde movement which was peoples response to war, nationalism, and other artists.
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Nikon first established in Tokyo.
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Edwin Land introduces first polaroid camera which produced picture in under a minute.
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First solo show of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art
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Kodak stops making cameras becuase of the fast growing igital camera industry.
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Polaroid under Thomas Petters stops production becasue of digital cameras and cell phone pictures.
