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Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre was a French artist and the creator of 'Daguerrotype' and responsible for the growth at the beginning of the Photography industry. Daguerre born in 1787 in France and he died 1851. -
Nicephore Niepce
Initially Nicéphore Niépce positioned at the back of a camera obscura sheets of silver salts coated paper, known to blacken with daylight. He called these images "retinas" . In march 1817 , an obstinate Niépce restarted his research on making images . While reading chemistry treatises, he focused his attention on the resin of Gaïacum because this yellow resin became green when exposed to day-light. But what was interesting to Nicephore is that it loses its solubility in alcohol . -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photography most famous for his work in capturing motion in photography -
Invention of the Daguerreotype
Each daguerreotype is a remarkably detailed, one-of-a-kind photographic image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper, sensitized with iodine vapors, exposed in a large box camera, developed in mercury fumes, and stabilized with salt water. -
George Eastman
Founded Kodak, the company and poularised the use of film roll. (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) -
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot was the inventor of the Calotype or the "Talbotype". His work with the Calotype was said to haveheavily influed the early stages of photography in Britan in the Early 19th Century. -
Calotype
The calotype process produced a translucent original negative image from which multiple positives could be made by simple contact printing. First, iodized paper was made by brushing one side of a sheet of high-quality writing paper with a solution of silver nitrate, drying it, dipping it in a solution of potassium iodide, then drying it again. -
Kodak
Kodak was founded by George Eastman in 1888. This inspired the creation of the first model of the Kodak camera. It took round pictures 6.4 cm in diameter, was of the fixed focus type, and carried a roll of film enough for 100 exposures. -
Camera Obscura
The term Camera Obscura comes from the Latin Word meaning 'darkened room'. It was thought to be created during the 10th century, but the idea of it was rumoured to have been around in Acient Greek times and During the Stone Age. Camera Obscura is a device invented to project an image of its surroundings onto a screen or flat surface. The device consists of a room or a box which has a hole on the source, it is reproduced, rotated 180 degrees but with colour and perspective intact, then projected.
