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Jan 1, 1452
Camera Obscura
This tecnique in taking pictures is from ancient times. The concept is using darkened rooms to produce images on walls via a pinhole camera. Leonardo di vinci used camera obscure in the 16th and 17th century to paint pictures but not take pictures. -
Thomas Wedgewood
In the 1800's Thomas introduced to the world his "sun pictures" made by placing opaque objects against leathered treated with silver nitrate. It would make very crisp images that are best seen under bright light -
Nicephore Niepce
He found a way to combine photopaper with obscure imaging. Basically the first modern imaging. -
Nicephore Niepce 2
He made the first permanent photo! Using the combination of the light sesntive paper now called photopaper and obscure imaging -
Daquerre/Daguerrotype
Partnered with Niepce until 1833, but continued working on the process that is now termed as Daguerrotype. Its making images on silver-plated copper covered with silver iodine. The developing oof the image was using warmed mercury. -
Fox Talbots "Calotype" inventor
Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.
This process was named in 1841 as "calotping" The image used is an example of a photo that has been processed through calotyping -
Calotype
In this technique, a sheet of paper is coated with silver chloride and exposed to light in a camera obscura; the areas hit by light become a darker tone giving rise to a negative photo -
James Clerk- Maxwell and "color seperation"
Scottish physicist James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates a color photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter. The photos were turned into lantern slides and projected in registration with the same color filters. This is the "color separation" method. The picture is his first color photo! a big jump in the history of photography! -
Matthew Bradly
He was known for taking pictures between 1861-85 of the Civil War. An impressive 7000 negatives were produced. He was also accompanied by his staff. the pictures are very real and frightening reality of what America has been through many can relate to them because theyre heart-touching -
Tim O' Sullivan
Was amoungst the many photographers sent by Congress to take pictures out in the west. Tim was one of the best photographers. One of the reasons he was probably famous was because his photos had so much clarity to them and very stunning. the picture used is an example of one of them! -
Eadweard Muybridge
Solved the long time question " Do all four of a horses hoves ever leave the ground at once?"
He answered this question by using a technique of stop motion in order to slow down the image and series of the horse running. He was able to see different pahses that way. and the answer is no all fours dont leave the ground at once. -
George Eatman/Kodak/Brownie Camera
Invented a machine that mass produced gelatin dry plates which led to the creation of Kodak in the year 1888. Brownie Cameras are cameras that revolutionized low cost photography and introduced the snapshot. They were developed by Kodak in the 1900 -
Paul Strand/Straight Photography
Known to use his photos to promote social and political change.
His style of photography is called "strand/straight photography" which is photography that attempts to depict a scene as realistically and objectively as permitted by the medium, renouncing the use of manipulation. -
Alfred Stieglitz
Organized a “Photo Secessionest” show in New York CityHe wanted to show that photography wasa form of media that could portray experssions just like a painting.
The photo attached is an example of a woman stressed most probably it can be interpurted in many ways -
Lewis Hines
Was hired by the U.S. National Child Labor Committee to photograph children working mills. It was done to show how terrible child labor was because kids werent able to develop knowledge of readign and writing in order to get careers outside the mill. It was cruel to keep children working as hard as they did in those days and Lewis highlighted the tragdey through his photos. -
Andre Kertesz
Moves from Hungary to Paris where he began an eleven year project photographing street life. -
Dorthea Lange
An influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
Harold Edgerton
Developed strobe photography at MIT. Was more famously known for allowing people to see things that happen fast like a milk drop falling. My favorite is the milk drop! -
Henri Cartier Bresson
Started the photographer owned Magnum Picture Agency with Robert Capa and David Seymore -
Lee Friedlander/ Social Landscape
American photographer who used black and white film. He mainly took social landscapes. Social Landscapes are pictures of urban life. -
William Wegman
Began photographing his Weimaraner, Man Ray. Later He got another dog, Fay Ray. Has a specially made polaroid camera that’s huge. -
Sandy Skoglund
She began working as a conceptual artist in New York and started getting into photography.Creates her own sets, takes months, and then photographs them.
Hee photos are very out there and abstract -
First digital camera
Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still camera -
Canon EOS system
The acronym "EOS" was chosen for Eos, the Titan goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology.Has an electric lens mount. This let you electronically focus the picture instead of manually -
Photoshop
The acronym "EOS" was chosen for Eos, the Titan goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology. Has an electric lens mount. This let you electronically focus the picture instead of manually -
2001/2004
2001: Polaroid goes bankrupt2004: Kodak stops producing film cameras.
