Photography leading up to the Civil War.

By izzynova
  • Camera Obscuras improvements began to happen.

    Camera Obscuras improvements began to happen.

  • Johann Heinrich Schulze finds a that silver nitrate darkens in light exposure.

  • Joseph Nicéphore Niépce creates first photographic image which required hours of exposure and later faded.

    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce creates first photographic image which required hours of exposure and later faded.

  • Pictures created that only needed under 30 minutes of exposure and did not fade.

  • William Henry Talbot creates the positive-negative process which allows more than one copy of a picture to be made.

    William Henry Talbot creates the positive-negative process which allows more than one copy of a picture to be made.

  • First advertisement made using a photo in Philadelphia.

    First advertisement made using a photo in Philadelphia.

  • Frederick Scott Archer creates the collodion process which only needs 2-3 seconds of light exposure to create an image.

    Frederick Scott Archer creates the collodion process which only needs 2-3 seconds of light exposure to create an image.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes invented the stereoscope viewer.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes invented the stereoscope viewer.

  • James Clerk-Maxwell makes a colored film to go over the lens addding a color effect to photos.

    James Clerk-Maxwell makes a colored film to go over the lens addding a color effect to photos.

  • Start of Civil War

  • Period: to

    Mathew Brady and team cover most of the American Civil war in photographs.

  • End of Civil War