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First sccessful pernanent photograph.
the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826, Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. Captured on 20 × 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. Due to the 8-hour exposure, the buildings are illuminated by the sun from both right and left. -
DAGUERREOTYPE
The image in a Daguerreotype is formed by the amalgam, or alloy, of mercury and silver. Mercury vapor from a pool of heated mercury is used to develop the plate that consists of a copper plate with a thin coating of silver rolled in contact that has previously been sensitised to light with iodine vapour so as to form silver iodide crystals on the silver surface of the plate. Exposure times were later reduced by using bromine to form silver bromide crystals, and by replacing the Chevalier lenses -
FIRST PHOTOGRAPH WITH A PERSON-Dagurre
With an expousure time of ten minutes, this photograph did not capture traffic but does however capture numerous people. -
1839
John Herschel demonstrates hyposulfite of soda (also known as hypo, or sodium thiosulfate) as a fixer, and makes the first glass negative. -
Self Portrait The first light picture ever taken
Robert Cornelius, self-portrait, Oct. or Nov. 1839, approximate quarter plate daguerreotype. The back reads, "The first light picture ever taken." This self-portrait is the first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced. -
Photo of War
In 1847, during the Mexican-American War, daguerreotypist Charles J. Betts follows the American Army to Veracruz, Mexico, and, according to an advertisement, offers to photograph "the dead and wounded." -
First Photo of Lightning
In 1847, early photography pioneer Thomas Easterly makes a daguerreotype of a bolt of lightning—the first picture to capture the natural phenomenon. Primarily a portraitist, Easterly also makes pictures of landscapes, unusual for daguerreotypists. -
Calotype Print
A calotype print showing the American photographer Frederick Langenheim (circa 1849). Note, the caption on the photo calls the process Talbotype -
Fenton's Photographic Van Crimea
Roger Fenton's assistant seated on Fenton's photographic van, Crimea, 1855.
Essentially Fenton rode to different places creating photographs with his assitant. -
First Color Photograph Tartan Ribbon
First Color Photograph, Tartan Ribbon by James Clerk Maxwell -
Lincon is Elected President
Lincon is Elected President -
Louis Dacous du Hauron
A french pioneer in photography, overlapping yellow, cyan, and red, subtactive colors are shown. -
Paris Street, Rainy Day Art Institute of oChicago
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, Art Institute of Chicago. -
Photographer photographs himself
A photographer appears to be photographing himself in a 19th-century photographic studio. (c. 1893)
(a phoenomom many myspaces users will understand in the early 2000's -
HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY
The sequenceing photos show the movement of the horse Daisy's movement. -
Olympics take place in st.louis
The St. Louis games could hardly be called an international competition. Since traveling overseas from Europe was extremely expensive at the time, the competition consisted mostly of Americans and Canadians (of the 681 athletes, 525 were from the United States.). It should be pointed out, however, that the Olympics were not intended to be a competition among nations at the time - it was a competition among amateur athletes from around the world. It was the job of the amateur athlete to find his -
Panarmic Veiw
General view of The Crystal Palace at Sydenham by Philip Henry Delamotte -
"Brady Stand" First Tripod
Mid 19th century "Brady stand" photo model's armrest table, meant to keep portrait models more still during long exposure times (studio equipment nicknamed after the famed US photographer, Mathew Brady). -
First Image Scanned into Computer
One of the first scanned images. Produced by NIST in 1957, the image shows Walden Kirsch, son of the leader of the team that developed the image scanner. This is a composite of two binary scans to produce approximate gray levels. -
First Dramatic Feature Film in Color (Kinemacolor)
1959 – The World, the Flesh and the Devil, the first dramatic feature film in color (Kinemacolor), is released. -
Salvador Dali Paints "The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
Christohper Columbus painted the Dicovery of America -
France Joins the UN
France joins the UN
