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Highlights on the history and the evolution of photography
5th – 4th century
Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics.
10th century
Arabian scholar Hasson ibn Hassan describes the camera obscura
1550-1820
The camera obscura: A mechanical means of projecting a 3D image to a 2D format
1664-1666
Isaac Newton discovers that white light is made up of colors
1725-1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovers and experiments with the darkening action of light on mixtures of chalk and silver nitrate
1802
Thomas Wedgewood produces silhouettes with Schulz’s ideas. He was unable to fix the images.
1814-1826
Invention of photography is credited to Joseph Nicephore Niepce (French) He took the first permanent photograph, which took an 8-hour exposure.
1827
Louis Daguerre cuts exposure time of a negative to 20 minutes.
1829
Joseph Niepce goes into partnership with Louis Daguerre. Together they develop photography to a 10-year period.
1837
Louis Daguerre develops the first practical photographic process “Daguerreotype”. This method is used extensively through the 1850’s.
1840
Alexander Wolcott issued the first American patent in photography for his camera.
1841
William Henry Fox Talbot (English) invents the “collotype” photographic process. A single exposure on paper, similar to today’s contact print.
1843
The photographic enlarger is developed.
1846
In Germany, Zeiss begins manufacturing lenses.
1849
A photographic slide is developed.
1851
Scott Archer (Scottish) develops the “Ambrotype”, a wet process on glass. An American version was the called the “tintype”, this was a cheaper version on metal plates with poorer quality in 1855.
Talbot takes a flash photo at a 1/100,000 of a second.
1854
Carte-de-visite process simplifies photography
1859
Wide Angle lenses used in photography
1861
The chemical means for color photography is developed.
1850-1870
War Photography
Roger Fenton (English) Crimean War
Matthew Brady (US) American Civil War
Alexander Gardner (US) American Civil War
Timothy O’Sullivan (US) American Civil War and American West
William Henry Jackson (US) American West
Henri Cartier-Bresson Spanish Civil War
Robert Capa Spanish American War, World War II
Photojournalism at its beginning
1872
The first celluloid film developed by John and Isaiah Hyatt
1873
First color photos appear
1875
Thomas Edison invents the mimeograph machine
1878
Muybridge photographs a racehorse in motion.
Dry plate photography developed by Charles Bennet.
1880
Newspapers begin using halftones.
1885
George Eastman develops coated printing paper.
1887
Celluloid replaces glass plate photography.
1889
George Eastman (US) (Kodak) “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”
1889
Development of motion picture roll film.
1890
Thomas Edison and William Dickson perfect the kinetoscope, a forerunner of the motion picture. A machine that shows a bulk of cards at a rate of 46 frames per second.
1891
Telephoto lenses being used on cameras.
1896
X-ray photography developed.
1898
The first artificial light photograph taken.
1900
The Kodak “Brownie” The first mass produced camera.
1903
The folding Bellow camera (see sample).
1904
The first photo transmitted by wire. It was of an airplane crash.
1905
Picture post card is the latest craze.
1908
The first true color motion picture.
1890- present
Photography is recognized as an art form.
Alfred Stieglitz known for his city and cloudscape.
Edward Steichen known for his fashion, advertising and theater photos.
Edward Weston known for his large formats, still life’s, nudes, and sands scapes.
Ansel Adams known for his large formats, Sierra Nevada's and American Southwest.
1912
Motorized movie camera replaces the hand crank.
1913
Eastman Kodak Company establishes first industrial photographic research laboratory.
1914
First 35mm still cameras developed.
1916
Optic range finders are put on cameras.
1919
Pictures began appearing in fashion magazines. Vogue magazine printed their pictures as early as 1913. Photocomposition begins.
1922
Technicolor for the movies developed.
The First 3D movie shown in theaters, the use of a green and a red lens set of glasses were needed for the full effect.
1923
Non- flammable film makes its debut.
Kodak introduces home movie outfits.
1925
Leica 35mm sets a new standard in photography.
1926
First 16mm film used.
1927
General Electric develops the modern flash bulb.
Philo Farnsworth's demonstrates electronic television.
Technicolor
1930
Flash bulbs replace flash powder.
First picture telephone.
1932
First light meter with photoelectric cells introduced.
Kodak sells 8mm home movie outfits.
Zoom lens invented, but does not become practical until 21 years later.
1933
Multiple flash sports photography.
1934
Color photography developed by Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky at the Kodak laboratories. One year later it is introduced to the general public.
Drive in Movie Theater opens in New Jersey.
1938
Chester Carlson invents Xerography.
The strobe light is developed
1940
Ansco, Agfa, and Sukura films introduced.
1941
Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
1946
Eastman Kodak introduces Ektachrome film; allowing photographers to process their own color slides.
1947
Zoom lens used in the World Series.
1948
Edwin Land, working with polarized light develops the instant camera (Polaroid Land Camera). LP record pressed in vinyl.
1951
First camera with a built in flash.
1954
Eastman Kodak introduces Tri-X high-speed film.
Kukla, Fran, and Ollie begins color television broadcast.
1955
Music is now being recorded on tape.
1956
First television program broadcast from video tape (Douglas Edward and the News).
Ampex introduces the first commercial video tape recorder.
1958
Color videotape introduced.
1961
Eastman Kodak introduces faster Kodachrome II color film.
1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film.
1965
Kodak offers Super 8 mm movie camera outfits.
1967
Cordless telephones get some calls
1968
First photograph of earth from the moon.
1969
First photograph taken by a person on the surface of the moon. Taken by Buzz Aldrin of Neil Armstrong.
1972
Sony introduces 3/4 inch "U-Matic" cassette VCR
Polaroid camera can focus by itself.
Digital television comes out of the lab.
1975
Sony introduces Betamax VCR.
1976
Still cameras are controlled by microprocessors.
1978
Konica introduces the first point and shoot auto focus camera.
1979
From Holland comes the digital videodisc read by laser.
1981
Canon demonstrates first electronic still camera.
1982
Kodak camera uses film on a disc cassette.
1984
Sony demonstrated the first camera and tape deck combine in the camcorder.
Apple Macintosh, IBM PC AT.
The 32-bit microprocessor.
1985
Digital image processing for editing stills bit by bit. Digital cameras become available to the general public.
1990’s
Photo CD images,
CD personal recording devices,
The present more sophisticated cameras,
Stronger strobes,
Faster film speeds,
Easier to use cameras,
Better optics,
Same day service on film developing,
1991
More than 4 billion cassette tape rentals in U.S. alone.
3 out of 4 U.S. homes own VCRs; fastest selling domestic appliance in history.
1995
Sony demonstrates flat TV set.
CD-ROM disk can carry a full-length feature film.
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