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Nicéphore Niépce takes the first surviving permanent photograph
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Nicéphore Niépce takes the first surviving permanent photograph
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Invention of the daguerreotype by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre is announced in Paris
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Invention of the daguerreotype by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre is announced in Paris
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Talbot made impressions of items by putting them on paper sharpened with sodium chloride and silver nitrate. He called them "photogenic illustrations".
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The calotype procedure significantly expanded the photographic affectability of the negative and diminished the necessary exposure time in the camera to seconds.
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Felice Beato, one of the first war photographers and photojournalists, arrives in Yokohama, Japan
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Eadweard Muybridge develops a fast shutter and starts to work on human and animal locomotion studies.
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French criminologist and anthropologist Alphonse Bertillon invents the modern mug shot. That is still used to this day.
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Alta-Vista introduces the first mass-produced American panoramic camera, and in 1899 Kodak releases the Panoram. These cameras can take panoramic photos without a tripod.
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A standout amongst the most well known cameras of the twentieth century, the simple easy-to-use, inexpensive Kodak Brownie enormously extended the beginner advertise for photography, prompting ages of snapshooters, who frequently arranged their photos into collections.
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Eastman Kodak introduces Kodachrome, the first colour transparency film.
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New York's Museum of Modern Art establishes the first department of photography in an art museum and names Beaumont Newell director.
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National Geographic, an early pioneer of printed color photographs, becomes the first major American periodical to publish an issue with all colour photographs
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Steven Sasson, a young engineer at Eastman Kodak, invents digital photography and makes the first digital camera
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The Camera on a phone is introduced, and is available to the public.
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Kodak stops all production of film cameras.
