The History Of Photography
How to use the first camera
The first photographer was Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Born in 1765 in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce enjoyed a comfortable, middle-class upbringing.
The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce, using a very small camera of his own which darkened when it was exposed to light. After the photos were taken only one out off all that Joseph taken survived.
The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827.The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in France.
Robert Cornelius took what is believed to be the world's first selfie, a self-portrait he snapped one day in October 1839 while standing in the yard behind his family's lamp store in Philadelphia.
Born in 1765 in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce enjoyed a comfortable, middle-class upbringing.
The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce, using a very small camera of his own which darkened when it was exposed to light. After the photos were taken only one out off all that Joseph taken survived.
The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827.The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in France.
Robert Cornelius took what is believed to be the world's first selfie, a self-portrait he snapped one day in October 1839 while standing in the yard behind his family's lamp store in Philadelphia.
The Pinhole Camera
A Pinhole Camera which has 3 names: camera obscura, dark chamber- a simple optical imaging device in the shape of a closed box or chamber. In one of its sides there is a small hole which, the rectilinear propagation of light, creates an image of the outside space on the opposite side of the box, a pinhole camera is dark on all sides of the box as well as the side were the point is facing.
pHOTOGRAPHERS tIME LINE
- 5th-4th Centuries B.C.
Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. - 1664-1666
Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors. - 1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. - 1794
First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker. - 1814
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. - 1826-1827
- The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.
- 1837
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. - 1839
- Robert Cornelius choice when he took what is believed to be the world's first selfie, a self-portrait.
- 1840
First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. - 1841
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. - 1843
First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. - 1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure. - 1859
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton. - 1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. - 1865
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright. - 1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. - 1880
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded. - 1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. - 1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. - 1898
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. - 1900
First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie. - 1913/1914
First 35mm still camera developed. - 1927
General Electric invents the modern flash bulb. - 1932
First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced. - 1935
Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film. - 1941
Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film. - 1942
Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography). - 1948
Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera. - 1954
Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film. - 1960
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy. - 1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film. - 1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon. - 1973
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera. - 1977
George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. - 1978
Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera. - 1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder. - 1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera. - 1985
Pixar introduces digital imaging processor. - 1990
Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.