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Joseph Nicephore Niepce a French inventor found a way to produce a permanent image in a camera obscura.
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The Kodak camera was invented by George Eastman. The Kodak camera along with other inexpensive box cameras led to a surge in amateur photographers.
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A technique called documentary photography is developed in the 30s. Photographers like Walker evans and Dorothea Lange took pictures that portrayed the courage and suffering of poverty stricken farm families.
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Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant camera.
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In th 50s and 60s Photographic styles became increaingly varied particularly in the United States. Photographers like Robert Frank and Gacy Wingrand followed the tradition of documentary realim. Other photographers began to ecperiment with diffrent printing techniques to achive unusual effects.
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Photographers began to fully explore the possiblities of color photography.
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Sony demonstrates the first consumer camcorder.
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Eastman kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
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J-SH04 introduced by J-phone, the first commercially available mobile phone with a camera that can take and share still pictures.
