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1843
In Philadelphia, the first advertisement with a photograph is published. -
1861
First color photo -
1895
X-ray was created -
1902
Alfred Steeglets started photo secessionist movement -
1903
Aerial photography was established -
1905
Gilbert Grosvner started The National Geographic -
1908
The Brownie was the first accessible camera invented -
Before 1908
People were only photographed 1-2 times in their life in a studio -
1908
First picture postcard -
1913
First 35mm still camera -
1919
People started seeing tabloids -
1924
Surrealist photography is created -
1935
Pictures began being sent through wires -
1936
The first all-photographic news magazine in the U.S., Life was created -
1940
Gordan Parks was hired to combat racial discrimination -
1940
Kodacolor process is developed -
1948
Polaroid camera was invented -
1949
The International Museum of Photography opens in New York -
1960's
Photos from the South were very powerful. They showed racial discrimination -
1960
EG&G creates extreme depth underwater camera for the U.S. Navy -
1963
Polaroid creates instant color film -
1968
First picture of the Earth taken from the moon -
1973
Polaroid created SX-70 camera, which started one-step instant photography -
1975
Kodak creates first digital camera -
1978
First point and shoot, autofocus camera -
1985
Pixar creates the digital imaging processor -
1990
Eastman Kodak creates Photo Compact Disc -
1999
World's first mobile phone with built-in camera for videos and pictures -
2003
Olympus creates first DSLR with a self cleaning image sensor -
2010
Canon created the largest CMOS image sensor ever made
