Photography Events

By terareed

  • Pantograph

    The pantograph helped artists copy, enlarge, or reduce drawings. Was adapted to engravings in 1786 (Marien 2015, pg. 4).

  • French Revolution

  • Lithography

    A technique for reproducing images, uses drawings on a flat surface, usually a smooth stone, rather than metal or wood (Marien 2015, pg. 10).

  • First Negative

    Although not known at the time, Niepce experimented with way to produce images through the action of light upon photosensitive materials, creating the first negative (Marien 2015, pg. 10).

  • Latent Image

    Dadugerre's experiments with Niepce's materials let to him concentrating on an image that had been registered on the silver surface of a plate, but was not visible yet (Marien 2015, pg 12).

  • The Mexican-American War

    (Marien 2015, pg. 42).

  • Daguerreotype

    A copper sheet plated with silver was given a high polish. The plate was placed with the silver side down over a closed box containing iodine. The iodine fumes fused with the silver to create a silver iodine, which is light sensitive. The plate was fitted into a camera obscura adapted for it and exposed to light. After exposure, the plate was put into a special box and exposed to mercury fumes, which blended the silver to produce an image.

  • Photograhy presented to the world

    Photography was presented to the world at a joint meeting of the Academy of Science and the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris (Marien 2015, pg. 3).

  • Articles on photography

    Edgar Allen Poe wrote three articles for a magazine about photography (Marien 2015, pg. 26)

  • Calotype

    Talbot patented the calotype process (Marien 2015, pg. 23).

  • First Daguerreotype Studio

    This was the first licensed public daguerreotype studio, opened by Richard Beard (Marien 2015, pg. 58)

  • Founded Calotype Club, London

    (Marien 2015, pg. 24)

  • The Great Exhibition

    Dubbed the "Crystal Palace Exhibition" opened in London (Marien 2015, pg. 27).

  • Photographic Art Journal

    Founded by Henry Hunt Snelling

  • First Police Pictures

    Photographic portraits of intinerant people where made by the Swiss photographer and lithographer Carl Durheim. These were made and provided to police to identify persons who strayed from Bern (Marien 2015, pg. 68).

  • Study of Plants

    First still life's Francis Bedford (lecture 4, pg 6)

  • Montaged combination

    Possibly the most well‐known tableaux vivant of that era is Oscar Rejlander’s allegorical work, The Two Ways of Life created in 1857. (Lecture 4, pg. 8)

  • First ariel photo

    by James Wallace Beck in October 1860, of Boston (Lecture 4, pg. 5)

  • American Civil War

    (Marien 2015, pg. 102)

  • The Harvest of Death

    Timothy O'Sullivan, war photographer, was famed with this historical image, taken of the Gettysburg battlefield (Marien 2015, pg. 106).

  • American Civil War Ended

    (Marien 2015, pg. 102).

  • "On a Method of Measuring the Human Form"

    Thomas Henry Huxley and John Lamprey set to create a system by which humans could be photographed for observation and comparison (Marien 2015, pg. 142).

  • European Depression

    (Marien 2015, pg. 147)

  • Anthony's Photographic Jounral

    published by E. and H.T. Anthony & Co

  • Dry-plates

    Made photography faster and easier and can be mass-produced (Marien 215, pg. 165)

  • Bureau of Ethnology

    (Marien 2015, pg. 146)

  • Photography as everyday life

    Photography quickly became absorbed into everyday life. By the 1880’s there were more than:
    Sixty photographic journals worldwide
    161 photographic societies worldwide
    And Firms such as Underwood and Underwood were creating 25,000 stereoscopic images a day. (Lecture 4, pg. 11)

  • Half-tone Process

    allowed publications to reproduce photographic images directly, rather than through engravings (Marien 2015, pg. 163).

  • Kodak

    With Kodak’s invention “You press the button, we do the rest”, photography quickly became available to the everyman.
    No longer did photographers have to have knowledge of chemistry or specialist equipment. (Lecture 4, pg. 12)

  • Wiener Kamera Blub

    first associations formed solely to advance art photography, started with 600 photographers (Marien 2015, pg. 172).

  • Postcard

    picture postcards evolved after changes in nineteenth century postal regulations in Europe and the US authorized a simple, undecorated card with a message to be mailed (Marien 2015, pg. 167)

  • The Clarence H. White School of Moder Photography

    Clarence White's photography centered on familiar Pictorialist themes, rendered with delicate atmospheric effects. He created the first photography school (Marien 2015, pg. 177)