History of Photography

Joseph Niepce

• 1826 Printed on a pewter plate

Daguerreotype

• 1839 announced one of the first types of printing: Silver on a copper plate

• First photographic portrait taken of a human

Roger Fenton

• 1850s• Started to use

photography to record events/news

• Picture to the right is a road filled with cannon balls from the Crimean war “shadow of the valley of death”

George Eastman

• 1884 revolutionized the process and created “film”

• This helped make photography more assessable to more people

Eastman - Kodak

• 1901 “Brownie” First mass produced camera

• Used with 127mm film

Color Film

• 1907 - Autochrome Plate

• 1935 - Kodachrome Film

Digital Age: 1990’s

• Digital cameras started to be mass produced

• Sensors capture images

Memory Cards

• Instead of film digital cameras use memory cards

• Can be used over and over again unlike film.