History of
Photography
Timeline
Earliest known Photograph - 1826
The world's first photograph—or at least oldest surviving
photo—was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827.
Captured using a technique known as heliography, the shot was
taken from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate in Burgundy.
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Origin of the The Term Photography - 1826
Photography as a long interesting history dating as far back as 1826
when the first permanent photograph was taken by a guy named
Joseph Nicephore Niepce. Later in 1839 the word photography was
coined to Sir John Frederick William Herschel.
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Daguerreotype - 1839
The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful
photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography.
Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each
daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate.
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Calotype - 1840
In this technique, a sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a
camera obscura; those areas hit by light became dark in tone, yielding a negative
image. The revolutionary aspect of the process lay in Talbot’s discovery of a chemical
(gallic acid) that could be used to “develop” the image on the paper—i.e., accelerate the
silver chloride’s chemical reaction to the light it had been exposed to. The developing
process permitted much shorter exposure times in the camera, down from one hour to
one minute.
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Wet Collodion Process - 1851
The process involved adding a soluble iodide to a solution of
collodion(cellulose nitrate) and coating a glass plate with the
mixture.
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Dry Plate Photography - 1871
glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide. It can
be stored until exposure, and after exposure it can be brought back
to a darkroom for development at leisure.
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Kodak Roll Film Camera - 1888
Pre-loaded with enough film for 100 exposures, the Kodak camera could easily be
carried and handheld during its operation. Born from the box camera, which is a simple
type of camera, the most common form being a cardboard or plastic box with a lens in
one end and film at the other.
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Color Photography - 1907
any of various processes of color photography wherein three
primary colors (as blue-violet, green, and red in the additive process
or magenta, yellow, and blue-green in the subtractive process) are
used to produce the color of the subject photographed.
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Kodachrome Film - 1935
Kodachrome is a brand name for a non-substantive, color reversal
film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was one of the first
successful color materials and was used for both cinematography
and still photography.
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Polaroid Instant Photography - 1947
The instant camera is a type of camera which uses self-developing
film to create a chemically developed print shortly after taking the
picture.
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First Digital Camera - 1975
Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak, invented and built
the first self-contained electronic camera that used a
charge-coupled device image sensor in 1975.
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Most Modern Cameras - Mid 2000’s
There are two “types” of digital cameras in the world
today…non-SLR digital cameras and digital SLR cameras. A
non-SLR digital camera is the digital equivalent of a “point and
shoot” film camera in that the lens is built into the camera and can't
be removed.
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