A BRIEF HISTORY of Photography

A BRIEF HISTORY OF Photography

1826/27 Nicephore Niépce takes the first surviving permanent photograph using a camera obscura 1837 Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre produces a photo on a silver copper plate and is affirmed 1839 as the inventor of the daguerreotype William Henry Fox Talbot publishes his photographic process in “Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing” 1841 William Henry Fox Talbot improves negative process and calls it the calotype 1842 Sir John Herschel invents the cyanotype process 1849 Sir David Brewster develops the stereoscope, which allows stereographic photographs to be 1851 easily viewed through a hand-held device The wet collodion process is invented to make glass negatives 1854 André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri develops the carte-de-visite, now known as a 1856 calling card Tintypes, first known as ferrotypes, are patented in the United States by Hamilton Smith 1877 Eadweard Muybridge develops a fast shutter and embarks on human 1878 and animal locomotion studies Factory-produced dry plates are introduced, coated with silver salts contained in gelatin 1880s Photochromes (hand colored images) become popular 1888 National Geographic is established 1888 The halftone process is used among 1888 newspapers in the US, to print photographs The Kodak No. 1 box camera is introduced by George Eastman with the slogan, “You 1890s - 1900s press the button, we do the rest” The Pictorialism movement takes root, emphasizing the natural beauty in subject matter, rather than the 1898 documentation of reality Alta-Vista introduces the first mass-produced American panoramic camera

Copyright © The Art of Education University, LLC theartofeducation.edu 1900 Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie camera at the retail price of one dollar 1906 J.P. Morgan finances Edward Curtis to document the traditional culture of the North American Indian 1907 Autochrome is introduced in France by the Lumière brothers as the first color 1908 - 1916 photography process Lewis Hine documents underage employment in mills, mines, factories and street trades around the US 1920s Man Ray produces his “rayographs,” featuring swirling, abstract shapes 1925 Leica I becomes the first commercially successful 35mm camera 1935 Eastman Kodak introduces Kodachrome, the first color transparency film 1935 Dorothea Lange is hired as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and documents the Great Depression 1936 Henry Luce’s Life, the first all-photographic American news 1940 magazine, appears on newsstands New York’s Museum of Modern Art establishes the first department of photography in an art museum 1942 Eastman Kodak develops the Kodacolor process for making color prints from 1948 color negatives Edwin Land introduces the first instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, which produces prints in about 60 seconds 1963 Kodak releases the Instamatic, the first point-and-shoot camera 1975 Steven Sasson, a young engineer at Eastman Kodak, invents digital photography and makes the first digital camera 1980s The first consumer digital cameras come out 1990 The first version of Adobe Photoshop is released 2000 Camera phones are introduced

2004 Kodak ceases production of film cameras