A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

So, today is the first class that I have in photography. In today's workshop we learn't a brief overview of the history of photography in the structure of a short timeline and it went a little something like this:

1021 AD

• the pinhole camera came to life
• it was created by Alhazen
• he did not see the camera as an object but just as something to put in a book

1816

• Johann Heinrich Schulze
• he was known for the discovery that silver chloride and silver nitrate darken the presence of light and for those he found the effects to capture temporary photographic images
• a 1724 experiment determined that a mixture of silver and chalk reflects less light that untarnished silver
• Schulze's discovery did not help preserve the image and the silver salts continued to darken unless protected from light

1822

• photoetching discovered
• the first piece of seminal photographic activity was made by Nicephore Niepce
• he originally worked with silver chloride and copper plates coated with gelatine

1825

• The Niepce brothers began their work
• they created one of the earliest known pieces of seminal photographic activity made using the heliograph process
• as part of their experiment it was printed from a metal plate covered with a ground that was etched following exposure to sunlight
• the first image shows a 17th century Flemish engraving of a man leading a horse

1839

• Photography was made public
• the Daguerrotype was created where an image is formed on a highly polished silver surface, normally a sheffield plate

1832

• Hercules Florence
• he experimented in Brazil with the idea of photography
• is known as that isolate inventor of photography in Brazil
• he referred to it as "photographie"

1832-1840

• William Fox Talbot
• he used a silver process image to create the calotype process
• calotype made photography available to the masses

1851

• Wet Collidion Process was introduced
• it was invented by Frederic Scott Archer
• it was scientific related and enhance exposure time

1860's

• Celluloid was created 
• Made by John Carbutt
• this discovery influenced the creation of a thin celluloid film

1884

• The kodak camera was created
• George Eastman is the founder of the Eastman Kodak Co.
• he developed paperbacked film - film with a roller to hold it
• the kodak cost $25
• it was more mobile than other cameras

1963

• the Polaroid camera was created
• the film developed a minute or two after exposure
• created instant film

1960's-1980's

• A rise of the communication and media industry between these times
• The theory behind cameras also boomed
• the introduction of the Sony Mavica eliminated the need for film and saved it to a floppy disk

1991

• First digital camera invented; the Kodak DCS100
• First commercially available cameras