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The history of photography

By jernigant

  • Joseph Niepce

    Joseph Niepce
    Joseph Nicephore Niepce a French inventor found a way to produce a permanent image in a camera obscura.

  • Kodak

    Kodak
    The Kodak camera was invented by George Eastman. The Kodak camera along with other inexpensive box cameras led to a surge in amateur photographers.

  • Documentary photography

    Documentary photography
    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.

  • Polaroid

    Polaroid
    Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant camera.

  • Style

    Style
    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.

  • Color

    Color
    Photographers began to fully explore the possiblities of color photography.

  • Camcorder

    Camcorder
    Sony demonstrates the first consumer camcorder.

  • Photo CD

    Photo CD
    Eastman kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.

  • Phone Camera

    Phone Camera
    J-SH04 introduced by J-phone, the first commercially available mobile phone with a camera that can take and share still pictures.