History of photography

The History of Photography

By CelineD
  • First Photograph

    First Photograph

    Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first photographic image. He used a pinhole camera to create the photo which required eight hours of light exposure to appear, and only lasted a short time.
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    History of Photography

    Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first photographic image. He used a pinhole camera to create the photo which required eight hours of light exposure to appear, and only lasted a short time.
  • Permanent Negative

    Permanent Negative

    Henry Talbot creates a permanent negative image using paper soaked in silver chloride and a salt solution, he then created the positive image using contact printing. The photo is of the first negative ever created.
  • Daguerreotype

    Daguerreotype

    Louis Daguerre created the Daguerreotype, a quicker and more efficient way of developping photos and the photo was permanent.
    More Information:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMKBy3lAFTU
  • Calotype

    Calotype

    Henry Talbot patens his process and names it Calotype which is greek for beautiful impression
  • Portrait Studio Opened in Paris

    Portrait Studio Opened in Paris

    Nadar Felix Toumachon opens the first portrait studio in Paris
  • Developpement of Carte-De-Viste Photography

    Developpement of Carte-De-Viste Photography

    Adolphe Disderi creates carte-de-visite photography in Paris
  • Stereoscopic Era

    Stereoscopic Era

    3D photography that recreates the illusion of depth
  • First Colour Photograph

    First Colour Photograph

    Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell creates the first colour photograph by using the "Colour Seperation Method" which involved the use of red, green and blue filters
    Worlds Oldest Colour Photos:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnmfA3zRxD8
  • Mathew Brady covers civil war with photographs

    Mathew Brady covers civil war with photographs

    From 1861 to 1865 Mathew Brady covers the american civil war by taking over 7000 photographs
  • Dry Plates being manufactured commercially

    Dry Plates being manufactured commercially

    Dry Plate is photographic plate invented by Richard L. Maddox in 1871.

  • First half-tone photograph appears in a newspaper

  • First Kodak Camera

    First Kodak Camera

    camera contains a 20 foot roll of paper and is able to produce 100 circular photographs
  • Improved Kodak Camera

    Improved Kodak Camera

    Camera has roll of film instead of paper
  • Kodak Brownie Box

    Kodak Brownie Box

    Kodak produced the Kdak Brownie Box which contained a roll of film inside
  • First Commercial Colour Film- Autochrome

    First Commercial Colour Film- Autochrome

    Autochrome commecial colour film created by Lumiere brothers in France
  • Nikon became established

    Nikon became established

    Nippon Kogaku K.K. established Nikon in Tokyo
  • Rayographs

    Rayographs

    Man Ray begins making Rayographs
  • Strobe Photography

    Strobe Photography

    Strobe Photography created by Harold Edgerton
    Cool video about underwater strobe photography:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGyO065vYxs
  • Fuji Film Created

    Fuji Film Created

    Fuji Film became established and began production by 1938
  • Developpememnt of Kodachrome

    Developpememnt of Kodachrome

    First Multi-Layered colour film
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    World War II

    Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans, and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for LIFE magazine
  • Polaroid Camera

    Polaroid Camera

  • First Image Scanned to a Computer

    First Image Scanned to a Computer

    Photograph was scanned by Russell Kirsch at U.S. National Bureau of Standards
  • First Colour Instant film & Under Water Photography commercialy available

    First Colour Instant film & Under Water Photography commercialy available

    First Colour Instant film - Polaroid
    Under Water Pjotography - Nikon
  • First Working Digital Still Camera

    First Working Digital Still Camera

    First working digital still camera made by Kodak created by Steve Sasson
  • Disk Camera

    Disk Camera

    Kodak creates the disk camera
  • First Auto-Focus SLR

    First Auto-Focus SLR

    Minolta creates first auto-focused SLR
  • Adobe Photoshop Created

    Adobe Photoshop Created

  • Photo CD

    Photo CD

    Photo CD created by Kodak
  • Camera Phone

    Camera Phone

    Camera Phone invented in Japan
  • 111 megapixel CCD sensor

    111 megapixel CCD sensor

    Dalsa makes a 111 megapixel CCD sensor which is the highest resolution so far