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Wedgewood & Davy
Thomas Wedgewood presented along with Sir Humphrey Davy, presented a paper that would be a method of copying paintings upon Glass and making profiles by the agency upon nitrate of silver. They could make copies of paintings or profiles the issue is that the light-sensitive paper would not stop developing which made the paper eventually turn black. -
Printing Press Is invented
The printing press is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers. Created in China, the printing press revolutionized society there before being further developed in Europe in the 15th Century by Johannes Gutenberg and his invention of the Gutenberg press. -
Earliest surviving photograph created by Joesph Nicéphore Niépce
"View from the Study WIndow at Maison du Gras" a copy of the heliograph or "sun drawing" this photo was made on a pewter plate. The picture took 8 hours to create which means the sun is on both sides of the buildings. -
Andrew Jackson was elected to his second term as president of the United States.
In March of 1833 Andrew Jackson took the oath of office as president for the second time. And in March of 1834, President Andrew Jackson was censured by the U.S. Congress during a bitter disagreement over the Bank of the United States. The censure was later expunged. -
Henry Fox Talbot Invents Calaotype
This is the first known image made by Talbot in 1935, he calls his process Calotype. Talbot did not announce his invention until 1839, meaning Daguerre announced his invention to the world before Talbot. Even though Daguerre announced his invention first and is credited as the first photograph Talbot is often credited with the invention of the camera. -
First Assassination Attempt on an American President
An assassination attempt on President Jackson was from a deranged man shot at Andrew Jackson in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Jackson attacked the man with his walking stick and had to be pulled back. The failed assassin was later found to be insane. -
Former president John Quincy Adams, introduces a petitions against slavery
Former president John Quincy Adams, serving in Congress, began trying to introduce petitions against slavery in the House of Representatives. His efforts would lead to the Gag Rule, which Adams fought for eight years. -
Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre takes first photograph of human being
Daguerre named his type of photography Daguerreotype. "Boulevard du Temple" was believed to be the first photograph of a human being. The man getting his shoe shinned stayed long enough that the photograph captured him. -
Invention of morse Code
Morse code was invented by an American called Samuel Finley Breese Morse. He was not only an inventor but also a famous painter. Before the invention of the telegraph, most messages that had to be sent over long distances were carried by messengers who memorized them or carried them in writing. -
Patent Wars
Both Daguerre and Talbot both apply for patents so that they can make money off of their inventions. News of their inventions reaches the United States in 1939. Photography is considered an art-science. -
Cyanotype
Cyanotype made by putting something on paper and covering it with a solution that turns the paper blue and leaves it white or the color of the paper where the object was. Scientific illustrator Anna Atkins makes algae book with cyanotype photographs. The first installment of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions in October 1843 and is widely considered to be the first photographic book. -
Purposes of the photograph
Industries and scientists used photography for work. The population shifts to use photography for portraits and memory-pictures. Exotic Photography is on the rise. Talbot's initial vision for photography as an aesthetic medium begins. -
U.S. Mexican War
The Mexican-American War marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean -
Photography used by ethnologists and anthropologists
One of the most disgusting uses of photography has been the use of ethnologists and anthropologists. They took pictures of people that were classified as "exotic". Basically this was just people who were slaved or those who were not white. These photographs were of people who had no choice or say in being photographed of how they were photographed. This could mean they were nude and also weren't allowed to hide their faces. -
The invention of the Wet Collodion Process
This photographic process produced a glass negative and a very detailed print. This was one of the easiest processes to use in order to make multiple quality prints. It also thrived from the 1850s and 1880s. -
Art takes over photography
Charles Baudelaire Writes "each day art further diminishes its self-respect by bowing down before external reality; each day the painter becomes more and more given to painting not what he dreams but what he sees. This focuses on the negative impacts on photography. -
First War to produce a large number of Photographic images
The Crimean War was the first war to have easy access to conflict photography. Roger Fenton was the best know photographer to take part in this event -
War photography with out combat
The photography from the Crimean War was classified as the first war documented by photographs however there was no combat photographed. There were many photographs of people in uniforms, their weaponry, and camps but exposure times were too long to take photos in active combat situations. -
Lewis Carroll the Photographer
Lewis Carroll who is known for his Alice In Wonderland the book was a photographer as well. It is thought that the way the cameras projected pictures upside down gave some inspiration to the crazy and twisted worlds Carroll has Alice In Wonderland set in. -
Art and photography mix
Henry Peach Robinson was a painter moved to a photographer who made artistic photographs. Robinson would make sketches of hisTHi ideas, take many photographs, and then piece them together making some unique photographs. These photos did not appear to be different photos besides the changed in color and exposure levels. -
Abraham Lincoln Becomes President
In the 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th presidential election. It was held in November of 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and he emerged triumphantly. -
Aerial photography takes flight
Nadar pioneers ariel photography by taking pictures in a hot air balloon. He was taking his photographs using the wet collodion process which means he had to take an entire darkroom with him in his hot air balloon. Most of these pictures have been lost or destroyed so the earliest known photograph taken in an aerial view was James Wallace Beck in October of 1860. -
The emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
War Photographers Stage Photos
In the civil war photographer, Mathew Brady made a discussion to move a fallen solder in order to make the picture more interesting. He dragged the body and positioned it according to his idea. This picture, "Dead confederate at little round top, Gettysburg," was included in Gardners Photographic Sketch Book of the War. -
Abraham Lincoln Assasination
On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
First Modern Olympic Games
On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating. The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1894 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad.
