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Photojournalism History Timeline

  • Johannes Kepler says "Camera Obscura"

    Johannes Kepler says "Camera Obscura"

  • Johann Heinrich Schulze

    Johann Heinrich Schulze

    Discovers a light sensitive compound
  • Photograms made on leather

    Photograms made on leather

    By Thomas Wedgewood
  • Sir John Herschel discovers photographic fixing agent

    Sir John Herschel discovers photographic fixing agent

    discovers photographic fixing agent
  • First negative is printed

    First negative is printed

    by Joseph Nicephore Niepce
  • First telephoto lens created

    First telephoto lens created

  • First paper negative

    First paper negative

    by William Henry Fox Talbot
  • Stereoscopic camera is introduced

    Stereoscopic camera is introduced

  • "Photography" is used

    "Photography" is used

    The word is said by Sir John Herschel
  • Daguerreotype is invented

    Daguerreotype is invented

  • Panoramic camera introduced

    Panoramic camera introduced

  • Calotype process introduced

    Calotype process introduced

    By William Henry Fox Talbot
  • View camera invented

    View camera invented

  • Wet Collodian process introduced

    Wet Collodian process introduced

    by F Scott Archer (Photo shown was used with the wet process, featuring Theodore Roosevelt)
  • Tin Type introduced

    Tin Type introduced

    By Hamilton Smith
  • Dry plate process introduced

    Dry plate process introduced

    by R.L. Maddox
  • 100 exposure Kodak introduced

    100 exposure Kodak introduced