History of Photography
- 1. History of Photography! By Catherine Walters
- 2. CAMERA OBSCURA Camera- Latin for room Obscura- Latin for dark The earliest mention of camera obscura was made by Chinese Philosopher Mo-Ti/ Mozi (5th Century BC) Since the 5th Century mentions of Camera obscura have been found by the likes of Leonardo da Vinchi, Aristotle (Greek philosopher), Alhazen (Islamic scholar and scientist) and Johannes Kepler (German astronomer) In the 17th/ 18th century many artists (Jan Vermeer, Canaletto, Guardi, and Paul Sandby) used camera obscura to help with their work. Camera obscuras are being made all over the world still to this day.
- 3. 1896- FIRST PERMANENT PHOTO Nicéphore got a silver coin and put it in a bowl of nitric acid, then waited until it dissolved and he then put a pinch of salt in the bowl. It soon turned into a paste that he used to put on paper for the photo to develop This is the first ever permanent photograph by Nicéphore Niépce, who took this picture from his window.
- 4. 1839- JOHN HERSCHEL John Herschel created Cyanotype Process. He fixed pictures with hyposulphite of soda in around in around 1839. Herschel was also an astronomer who was doing this (Cyanotype Process) to back up his work in Astrology.
- 5. 1840- WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT William Talbot (1800- 1877) made the first photo negative in (1834- 1839). Talbot also made a book of photos to show the world named “The pencil of nature”. Talbot was also an inventor
- 6. 1851-FREDERICK SCOTT ARCHER In 1851 Frederick Archer designed and invented wet collodion. He then went to project pictures on copper, glass and other materials hoping to get a permanent result
- 7. 1978-Eadweard James Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge used 12 photos of a galloping horse and attached them together to create the first ever motion picture. He used these photos to show how horses run and to show the leg movements.
- 8. 1889- ANNIVERSARY OF PHOTOGRAPHY On the 50th anniversary of photography fixed focus lens’ were made and single shutter speed. These types of camera were quite low priced and were sold to a lot of people as it was affordable.
- 9. 1937- POLAROID Polaroid was founded in 1937 Then, in 1948 the first Polaroid instant camera was made. But only until 1991 did the instant camera sell $3bn for the company. These camera were very popular in the 1990s
- 10. 1986-FIRST MEGA PIXEL CAMERA AND 1994- APPLE Nikon 1987- Released 7 other products 1991- First professional camera, it was the f-3 camera with 1.3 mega pixels. Apple In 1994, Apple created the first mass market digital camera (640x480)