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Period: 500 BCE to
The Pre-Photography
In this period we were just able to replicate objects, we couldn't retain them. The artistic movements were Renaissance Art from 100 to 1600, Baroque from 1600 to 1750 and Neoclassicism from 1750 to 1850. -
400 BCE
Camera Obscura
Was the first step to get into the world of capturing scenarios. This object could reflect the outside in its little dark box or room. The light would cross a hole and reflect the light upside-down. Thanks to the Camera Obscura, scientists would start asking how to preserve it. -
1400
Early Optics
The well-known artist, scientist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci was really into the Camera Obscura and had the idea to use a glass lens instead of the pinhole. -
Developing a Film Timeline
Johann Heinrich Schulze presented that a solution of silver nitrate darkens when it was exposed to light. The problem now was how to stop the solution from continuing to darken to light, in other words, how to fix the image to the medium. -
Heliography
This was one of the firsts methods to actually capture the image instead of replicating it. It was captured on a glass or a metal plate, which was coated with a chemical that hardened after certain light exposure. This process became a prototype of modern day photographs. -
Period: to
The photographs
In this period we are able to take photographs that actually can be retained for a long time. The artistic movements really changed in one century: we went from Romaticism to Conceptual art passing through impressionism. -
Daguerrotype
Louis Daguerre discovered two important things: an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor that could be used to create an image. Daguerre aptly dubbed it daguerreotype, and in 1839, the French government bought the rights to this early photographic method. -
"Photography"
This word was first used by Sir John Herschel, who became interested in capturing and retaining images. -
The Camera
Photographers of this era usually used cameras created and made by themselves or someone with knowledge, adapting lenses made by optical manufacturers to use photographically. Voightlander went a step beyond and introduced a camera for metal plates in 1841. -
Moving Pictures
Motion and moving pictures, or movies are an entrenched part of the timeline of photography.
The question of how best to capture subjects in motion was first successfully answered by Eadweard Muybridge in response to settling a bet about horses hooves and galloping. -
Period: to
Actual Cameras
By this time, we are able to not just capture and retain a pictures, but see them on a screen and take more than one. The artistic movement in this period was ending with the Romaticism for then to finish to what would be Contemporary Art, which included: feminist art, street art, digital art, appropriation art among some. -
Digital Cameras
The history of photography timeline continues developing through to the present day. Digital is a fantastic medium for photography because of all of the storage, varied formats, display options and storage, and ease of transferring images.
The first known digitally recorded images were created in a Kodak lab in 1975 and it took 23 seconds to capture the 0.01 MP image. The camera was very basic but the recording apparatus weighed in at 8 pounds.