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The Growth of Photography up to the 1900's
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Joseph Niepce
Joseph Niepce took the first fixed photograph at his home. The process would begin the revolution toward what photography is known as today.
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Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre joined forces with Joseph Niepce and the partnership lead to the creation of a better working camera. -
Neipce
Niepce passes away after a short amout of time with Daguerre. THis leaves Daguerre with full control of the research done to improve the camera. -
With Control
Daguerre Sells the design to the french and creates the Daguerreotype. It uses silver salts and other chemicals, He creates a way to fix images with extremely crisp details. -
Herschel
Herschel made numerous important contributions to photography. He made improvements in photographic processes, particularly in inventing the cyanotype process and variations (such as the chrysotype), the precursors of the modern blueprint process. He experimented with color reproduction, noting that rays of different parts of the spectrum tended to impart their own color to a photographic paper. -
William Henry Fox Talbot
Talbot Was the creator of the first negatives. This allowed for multiple prints from one negative. The process was called contact printing. -
Fredrick Archer
Using a viscous solution of collodion, he coated glass with light-sensitive silver salts. Because it was glass and not paper, this wet plate created a more stable and detailed negative. -
Nadar
Felix Tournachon, better known by the nom de plume Nadar, combines his interests— aeronautics, journalism, and photography— and becomes the first to capture an aerial photograph in a tethered balloon over Paris in 1858. -
Color and Maxwell
Clerk Maxwell creates a rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue. His photo of a multicolored ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three-color method, until then just a theory, and sets the stage for further color innovation, particularly by the Lumißre brothers in France. More on Maxwell -
Muybridge
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, using new emulsions that allow nearly instantaneous photography, begins taking photograph sequences that capture animals and humans in motion. His 1878 photo series of a galloping horse, created with 12 cameras each outfitted with a trip wire, helps settle a disagreement over whether at any time in a horse's gait all four hooves leave the ground. (They do.) It also causes a popular stir about the potential of cameras to study movement.
