Photography 2

By cjfry

  • William Shakespeare wrote his first play The Taming of the Shrew

  • Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors

  • The oldest surviving daily newspaper is the Wiener Zeitung of Austria. It was first printed

  • Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.

  • First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.

  • Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura

  • Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

    Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

  • First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

  • William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

  • First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.

  • Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process

  • Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

    Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

  • First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.

  • First 35mm still camera developed.

    First 35mm still camera developed.

  • Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.

    Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.

  • EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

    EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

  • Matisse’s Le Bateau (The Boat) hung upside-down for 2 months in the Museum of Modern Art, New YorkSee: Art and Lit fast facts

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  • Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.

  • Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.

  • Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.

    Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.