The History of Photography
By Myrcelle Badua
Joseph Nicephore Niepce(17651833)
Joseph Nicephore Niepce was the first to make a photographic image with a camera obscura, in 1827. Before, people would use the camera obscura for drawing purposes and viewing. His heliographs, or sun prints, were the prototype for modern photography.
The photo taken by Niepce
Louis Daguerre(1787-1851)
Niepce & Daguerre
Louis Daguerre invented the first practical process of photography. He formed a partnership with Niepce in 1829, to improve Niepces process. In 1839, after years of experimentation, Daguerre developed a convenient & effective method for photography, naming it The Daguerreotype.
The Daguerreotype Process
The Daguerreotype process would transfer pictures onto silver-plated copper sheets.
First, he polished the silver & covered it in Iodine; making the surface sensitive to light He then put the plate in a camera and exposed it for a couple of minutes Once the image was painted by light, he bathed the plate in silver chloride; making the images last longer and not able to change when exposed to light.
The Daguerreotype Process
Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Talbot used silver salt solution to make paper sensitive to light
Then he exposed the paper to light, making the background image black & the subject different versions of grey Talbot made contact prints by reversing the light and shadows to create detailed pictures on the negative paper
Talbots first, perfected, paper-negative picture, calling it a Calotype. A Greek name, meaning beautiful picture.
Henry Fox Talbot was the inventor of the first negative. Talbot was an English botanist & mathematician
Wet Plate Negatives (1851)
Frederick Scoff Archer invented wet plate negatives. He used viscous solution of collodion & coated glass with light sensitive silver salts. The wet plate created a more stable and detailed negative because it was glass that was used instead of paper.
Wet plate negative process
Tintypes (1856)
An example of Tintype
Hamilton Smith made Tintypes in 1856. Tintypes were another medium that brought up the birth of photography. The base for light-sensitive material was a thin sheet of iron, making a positive image.
Tintype Camera
An example of Tintype An example of Tintype
Dry Plate Negative (1879)
Dry plate negatives are exactly like Wet paint negatives, the only difference is that Dry paint is dried with gelatin emulsion. Photographers did not need a dark room to develop their photos, instead they can hire technicians to develop them. The dry process absorbed light so quickly, it made the hand-held camera possible.
Hand-held cameras
Examples of Dry plate
Flexible Roll Film (1889)
Flexible Roll Film
Box Camera
George Eastman invented flexible roll film. Flexible roll film is film with a base that was unbreakable, flexible, and has the ability to roll up. What made the mass-produced box camera a reality was the emulsions coated on cellulose nitrate film base.
Color Photographs (1940)
In the early 1940s, color photos were brought to the market. The films used modern technology of dye-coupled colors, meaning that a chemical process connects the three dye layers together to create the apparent color image
