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Jan 1, 1000
The Camera Obscura
The date is actually incorrect, but it would not let me put in the correct date. Around 1000 AD, Alhazen invented the first pinhole camera. It was also called the Camera Obscura which makes sense considering the images created were upside down. -
World's First Photograph
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras” is known as the world's first photograph. Through experimentation, Niépce put light sensitive plates behind a camera which is what created this image. -
The First Photo of a Human Being
Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the Daguerreotype also created the first photograph that contained a human being. Since the process to take a photo took about 10 minutes, every person in the area dissapeard by the final frame, except from a man in the bottom left corner who was getting his shoes shinned. -
The World's First Portrait Photograph
Robert Cornelius captured the first self portrait photograph. This was created a year after Daguerre's photo of the first human in a picture. -
The Daguerreotype Process
Created by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, the Daguerreotype process was the first practical way to make permanent images. In 1839 Daguerre presented the process to the world. -
The Calotype Process
Henry Fox Talbot was the inventor of the first negative photograph. After perfecting his process he called it the Calotype Process. -
The Wet Plate Negative
To develop an image using this method, a solution of collodion with silver salts, and the use of a darkroom creates a detailed and stable negative. This method was created by Frederick Scoff Archer. -
Tintype Photography
Hamilton Smith was the inventor of this medium of photography. By using a sheet of iron as a base for a light-sensitive material, it creates a positive photo. -
The First Color Photograph
Thomas Sutton and James Clerk Maxwell created the first colored photograph by adding colored filters over the lens of the camera. -
The Dry Plate Negative
With this process, the ability to take photographs with a hand-held camera was finally possible. The dry plate negative method absorbed light so quickly that the need for darkrooms to develop photos was no longer needed. -
Flexible Film Roll
Created by George Eastman, this film could be rolled and was unbreakable compared to the film before now. -
The First Polaroid
With the invention of the Polaroid, photos could be developed practically instanly, it would only take up to 60 seconds for the picture to develop after it was printed. The creator of this breakthrough was Edwin Land. -
The First Digital Photograph
18 years before the first digital camera was created, the first digital photograph was born. Russell Kirsch created the image by scanning a photo oh his son. -
World's First Digital Camera
Created by Steve Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak, is credited with the invention of the world's first digital camera. -
First 3D Portrait
A team of computer experts from USC and the Smithsonian created the first 3D portait of a U.S. President, Barack Obama.
