timeline of photography by Charlotte Hissey

400AD

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 17:11:24 UTC

The use of optics was developed as a camera obscurer which was a black box with one singular hole that viewed something upside down.

Many Arab philosophers relied on this and Greek people

Optics - "the study of the behavior of light"

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:25:07 UTC

Introduced portable lights, these were very expensive and very dangerous, they were made of magnesium flash powders

- They were changed to fragile lightbulbs in the late 1930s.

- The first picture ever taken was in 1827 by Joseph Nicephore

"A view from the window"

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:29:33 UTC

The concept of shutter speed was formed through extremely slow exposure. (8 hours)

most photos required people to stand really still for long periods of time, usually used corpses in the Victorian era.

- Louis Daqueremi introduced a new process eponymous daguerreotype

- In 1842 Cyanotypes were created by John Herashel

the first book of cyanotypes was Anna Atkins

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:37:33 UTC

A New Era of photography was introduced

- Film photography was in the making, some being wet collidon plates by Frederick Scott Archer.

- This reduced the light exposure time by 2-3 seconds

Wet Collidon Plates - coating a metal plate with light sensitive solution

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:41:54 UTC

Gelatin Dry Plates was invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox (1871)

- George Eastman trials around with the first kodak roll-film camera.

Gelatin Dry Plates - coating glass photographic plates with light sensitive gelatin.

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:44:32 UTC

- The mass marketed camera the brownie was invented, this made change as they were typically really expensive

- Many children owned one.

- In 1929 Brassai began started taking photographs using a Voigtlander camera

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:46:47 UTC

electronic flash bulbs were created by Harold Edgerton

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:50:35 UTC

- Polaroids were invented and launched by Edwin .H. Land.

- Artists such as Gordan parks began taking photographs

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:52:44 UTC

cameras were very expensive

charlottehissey — 2025-09-09 19:53:30 UTC

digital photographer became more advanced and affordable