History Of Photography

Nicéphore Niépce takes the first

surviving permanent photograph

1826
Invention of the daguerreotype
by Louis Jacques Mandé
Daguerre is announced in
Paris:
“The first publicly announced
photographic process, the
daguerreotype yielded unique and
exquisitely detailed images. Harvard
botanist Asa Gray collected
daguerreotypes of his colleagues,
including this portrait of his mentor
John Torrey.”

1839
Fox Talbot releases the
calotype :
“This camera never became
popular among the common folk
as the daguerreotype was
cheaper and more accessible.”

1840
William Henry Fox Talbot
introduces the calotype, a further
refinement of his
negative-to-positive process:
“The calotype process greatly increased
the photographic sensitivity of the negative
and reduced the necessary exposure time
in the camera to seconds.”

1841
Sir John Herschel invents the
cyanotype process:
“An inexpensive medium, the cyanotype
was used as a photographic process in the
19th century and more often in the 20th
century for reproducing architectural plans
and technical drawings.”

1842
The Langenheim brothers in
Philadelphia introduce the
first photographic lantern
slide:
“Expanding the utility of
photography and making it suitable
for entertainment and educational
purposes, the use of lantern slides
lasted until the 1950s.”

1848
Sir David Brewster, inventor of the
kaleidoscope in 1816, develops the
lenticular stereoscope, which allows
stereographic photographs to be
easily viewed through a hand-held
device:
“Stereographs, made of two nearly identical
images mounted together to produce the
illusion of a single three-dimensional image,
were popular from the 1850s to the 1920s.”

1849
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
announces the method for creating
albumen prints:
“Photographers readily adopted
Blanquart-Evrard's new printing paper. In
1866, the British Quarterly Review estimated
that in England alone six million egg whites
were used annually to supply albumen for
coating papers.”

1850
Mobile photo studies are created:

“During the 1850’s photographers began

to travel around in wagons taking photos
of whoever needed them.”

1850
Frederick Scott Archer introduces
the wet collodion process:
“Requiring less time for exposures and less
expensive than daguerreotypes, the wet plate
collodion process provided a greater level of
detail and clarity. It remained the dominant
glass negative process in the United States
until it was replaced by the gelatin dry plate
process in the 1880s.”

1851
James Anson Cutting of Boston first
publishes the term ambrotype in his
1854 patent for an “Improved
Process of taking Photographic
Pictures upon Glass”:
“The ambrotype process consisted of a glass
negative exposed in the camera, developed,
fixed, and then placed against a dark
background so that it appeared as a positive
image.”

1854
Cabinet photographs are introduced
in the United States:
“Cabinet photographs gradually replaced
cartes de visite in popularity. They often
were studio portraits and had the
photographer’s imprint on the back.
Measuring approximately 6.5 x 4.25 inches
(16.5 x 10.5 cm), the cabinet card format was
popular until the turn of the century.”

1866
The first Kodak camera comes out:
“This camera featured dry plates compared
to wet plates and was easy to carry around in
your pocket.”

1870
Silver gelatin paper becomes
commercially available:
“The widespread use of silver gelatin paper
in the 1890s made it the most common
black-and-white photographic print process
of the 20th century.”

1874
Eadweard Muybridge develops a fast
shutter and embarks on human and
animal locomotion studies:
“Muybridge’s locomotion studies proved that
at a certain point during the course of its gait,
a galloping horse had all four feet off the
ground.”

1877
Alta-Vista introduces the first
mass-produced American
panoramic camera:
“The first panoramic photographs appeared
as early as 1845, but the Alta-Vista, and the
No. 4 Kodak Panoram introduced in 1899,
allowed amateurs to take small panoramas of
no more than 12 inches using roll film and no
tripod.”

1898
Eastman Kodak introduces the
Brownie camera at the retail price
of one dollar:
“One of the most popular cameras of the
20th century, the easy-to-use, inexpensive
Kodak Brownie greatly expanded the
amateur market for photography, leading to
generations of snapshooters, who often
compiled their photographs into albums.”

1900
In France, the Lumière brothers
introduce the autochrome color
process:
“The first commercial color process, the
autochrome became popular with amateur
photographers and remained available until
the late 1930s.”

1907
Leica I becomes the first practical
and commercially successful 35 mm
camera:
“The Leica became a favorite camera for
photojournalists, including street and war
photographers.”

1924
Eastman Kodak introduces
Kodachrome, the first color
transparency film:

1935
Eastman Kodak develops the
Kodacolor process for making color
prints from color negatives:
“The first amateur color negative film,
Kodacolor was sold with the cost of
processing and printing included in the price
until a 1954 federal court’s decree forced
Kodak to stop this practice.”

1942
Edwin Land introduces the first
instant camera, the Polaroid Land
Camera Model 95, which produces
prints in about 60 seconds:
“The commercial release of the Polaroid
Land Camera Model 95 took place at the
Jordan Marsh department store in Boston on
November 26, 1948. At a cost of $89.75, all
56 cameras brought to the store sold out.”

1948
The first digital photo is taken:
“This was a big step in photography with the
war only being resolved for a little over ten
years ago.”

1957
Kodak releases the Instamatic, the
first point-and-shoot camera:
“The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a
generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous
imitators.
During its heyday, the range was so ubiquitous that the
Instamatic name is still frequently used (erroneously) to refer
to any inexpensive point-and-shoot camera. (It is also
frequently used incorrectly to describe Kodak's line of
instant-picture cameras, the Kodamatic series.)
The Instamatic name was also used by Kodak on some
Super 8-based home-cine cameras.”

1963
Steven Sasson, a young engineer at
Eastman Kodak, invents digital
photography and makes the first
digital camera:
“Steven Sasson’s camera weighed 8 pounds,
used a cassette tape to record
black-and-white images, and took 23 seconds
to capture its first image. Today, nearly all
photographs are taken with a digital camera.”

1975
Auto focus was created:
“This invention really changed the way
cameras worked with consumers and the
price it was to buy them.”

1985
The beginning of the digital age:
“This was the beginning of a digital age .”

1990’s
Camera phone is introduced:
“The first cell phone with a built-in camera was
manufactured by Samsung and released in South
Korea in June of 2000. The SCH-V200 flipped open
to reveal a 1.5-inch TFT-LCD, and the built-in
digital camera was capable of taking 20 photos at
350,000-pixel resolution, which is
0.35-megapixels, but you had to hook it up to a
computer to get your photos. The camera and the
phone components were essentially separate
devices housed in the same body.”

2000
The now:
“Cameras have now has a bigger audience and their
are many different types of cameras that focus in
different areas and directions. At this time DCLR
became very big and popular among
photographers.”

2000’s
 Work cited
Codrops. “Harvard's History of Photography Timeline.” A History of Photography,
library.harvard.edu/sites/all/themes/HarvardLibraryPortalTheme/timeline/index.html.

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