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First Photograph
Joeseph Niepce makes a heiogrpah, words oldest photograph or worlds oldest surviving photograph. He took a picture from outside his window in his estate in Le Gras, France. -
Daguerrrotype
Daguerre announces the daguerreotype, a photographic process that creates a positive image on a copper plate with a thin coat of silver. After that people used this process for almost twenty years. -
Calotype
Henry Fox Talbot patents his photography process the calotype or talbotype which used a paper coated in silver iodine. -
War photography
Roger Fenton got famous off of his war phtotgraphy collection of the Crimean War. -
Color Photography Theory
Louis Ducas de Hauron writes a book on different theories of color photography methods. -
1888 First Kodak
George Eastman introduce frst kodak or brownie camera which was sold for $1 and used fifteen cent rolls. The slogan for kodak was "You press the button - we do the rest." This was the birth of snapshot phototgraphy. -
First Woman Photographer
Margaret Bourke-White was the first woman photgrapher who took picture of the Soviet war and also corresponded with LIFE magazine. -
First Commercial Color Plates
First autochrome plates produced by Lumiere Brothers. -
Photographs of Child Labor
Lewis Hine hired by US child labor committee first exposed pictures of child labor of children working at mills. -
Dada movement started
Dada started in Switzerland which was a european avant-garde movement which was peoples response to war, nationalism, and other artists. -
Nikon
Nikon first established in Tokyo. -
Polaroid
Edwin Land introduces first polaroid camera which produced picture in under a minute. -
Full Color Photography Mueseum
First solo show of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art -
Kodak Stops
Kodak stops making cameras becuase of the fast growing igital camera industry. -
Polarioid Stops
Polaroid under Thomas Petters stops production becasue of digital cameras and cell phone pictures.
