Photography - A timeline by Samara Clifford https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk en-us 2023-02-20 08:51:00 UTC 2026-03-12 00:51:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4f8.png TLDR sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488244033 Don't have time to look at all this awesome info? - watch this short video instead.]]> 2023-02-20 08:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488244033 1839: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre creates the Daguerrotype sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488245126 1839: Invention of the daguerreotype by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre is announced in Paris 

  • The first publicly announced photographic process, the daguerreotype yielded unique and exquisitely detailed images. 
  • These required looooooooong exposures and subjects would be propped up with frames to keep them still.
]]> 2023-02-20 08:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488245126 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488246293 2023-02-20 08:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488246293 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488246666 2023-02-20 08:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488246666 9th century sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488249749 Arab scientist Alhazen invents the camera obscura - but it only projects an image - it does not record or capture it. It was however used by artists and assisted them in portraying perspective into their paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura]]> 2023-02-20 09:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488249749 1724 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488252472 Johan Henriech Schultz discovers that silver nitrate is sensitive to light. He can record the images produced by a camera obscura - but only for a short time.]]> 2023-02-20 09:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488252472 1841: William Henry Fox Talbot introduces the calotype. sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488254411 A further refinement of his negative-to-positive process, the calotype process greatly increased the photographic sensitivity of the negative and reduced the necessary exposure time in the camera to seconds.    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotype]]> 2023-02-20 09:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488254411 1842: Sir John Herschel invents the cyanotype process sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488254677 2023-02-20 09:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488254677 1847: Medical photography is born sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488268916 The studio of Southworth and Hawes creates daguerreotypes taken at Massachusetts General Hospital of early operations using ether as an anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital  ]]> 2023-02-20 09:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488268916 1848: The Langenheim brothers in Philadelphia introduce the first photographic lantern slide sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488269546 Expanding the utility of photography and making it suitable for entertainment and educational purposes, lantern slides lasted until the 1950s. ]]> 2023-02-20 09:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488269546 2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488269958 2023-02-20 09:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488269958 2000: Camera phone is introduced sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488270179 2023-02-20 09:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488270179 1977: Susan Sontag’s On Photography is published sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488270462 2023-02-20 09:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488270462 1975: Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak, develops the first digital camera sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488271346 2023-02-20 09:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488271346 1963: Kodak releases the Instamatic, the first point-and-shoot camera sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488272089 2023-02-20 09:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488272089 1990s Digital cameras are available to the public sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488272360 Resolution is low and cameras are expensive]]> 2023-02-20 09:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488272360 1962: National Geographic, an early pioneer of printed color photographs, becomes the first major American periodical to publish an issue with all color photographs sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488272361 2023-02-20 09:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488272361 1947: Edwin Land introduces the first instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, which produces prints in approximately 60 seconds sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273002 2023-02-20 09:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273002 1942: Eastman Kodak develops the Kodacolor process for making color prints from color negatives sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273244 2023-02-20 09:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273244 1940: New York's Museum of Modern Art establishes the first department of photography in an art museum and names Beaumont Newhall director sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273632 2023-02-20 09:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273632 1935: Eastman Kodak introduces Kodachrome, the first color transparency film (thats SLIDES!) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273935 2023-02-20 09:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488273935 1934: The National Alliance of Art and Industry exhibition in New York features advertising and industrial photographs in a fine art setting sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488274295 2023-02-20 09:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488274295 1925: Leica I becomes the first practical and commercially successful 35 mm camera sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488274553 2023-02-20 09:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488274553 1924: Surrealist Photography sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488274869 Surrealist photography is introduced in Andre Breton's publication The Manifesto of Surrealism The Welsh photographer Angus McBean used techniques such as photomontage to create this surrealistic portrait of Audrey Hepburn. Image caption: Angus McBean (1904-1990, Welsh), Audrey Hepburn, 1950, gelatin silver print. Angus McBean Photographs. Courtesy of Harvard Theatre Collection. ]]> 2023-02-20 09:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488274869 1907: In France, the Lumière brothers introduce the autochrome color process sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488275209 The first commercial color process, the autochrome became popular with amateur photographers and remained available until the late 1930s. ]]> 2023-02-20 09:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488275209 1903: The invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers - Aerial photography is born sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488275497 The invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers revolutionizes aerial photography ]]> 2023-02-20 09:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488275497 1900: Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie camera at the retail price of one dollar sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488275763 Arguably the most popular camera of the 20th century, the easy-to-use, inexpensive Kodak Brownie greatly expanded the amateur market for photography, leading to generations of snapshooters, who often compiled their photographs into albums. ]]> 2023-02-20 09:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488275763 1888: George Eastman markets the Kodak No. 1 box camera with the slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest" sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488276079 2023-02-20 09:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488276079 1885: The mugshot is born sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488276434 French criminologist and anthropologist Alphonse Bertillon introduces the modern mug shot Working for the Paris Prefecture of Police, Bertillon included standardized photographic portraits in the comprehensive files he created for identifying criminals. His system was soon adopted by police in Great Britain, Europe, and the United States. ]]> 2023-02-20 09:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488276434 1877: The fast shutter is born sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488276753 Eadweard Muybridge develops a fast shutter and embarks on human and animal locomotion studies ]]> 2023-02-20 09:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488276753 1874: Silver gelatin paper becomes commercially available sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488277062 The widespread use of silver gelatin paper in the 1890s made it the most common black-and-white photographic print process of the 20th century.   Image caption: Photographer unidentified, Margaret Wessell Piersol and friends at Ruggles Point, ca. 1908, gelatin silver print, Anne Murray Morgan Papers. Courtesy of Radcliffe College Archives. ]]> 2023-02-20 09:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488277062 Renaissance Art (1400-1600) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488281496 2023-02-20 09:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488281496 Baroque Art (1600-1750) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488281545 2023-02-20 09:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488281545 Classical Art (1750-1827) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488281619 2023-02-20 09:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488281619 Romantic Art (1827-1900) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488287026 2023-02-20 09:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488287026 Modern Art (1900-1970) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488287462 2023-02-20 09:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488287462 Contemporary Art (1950- ) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488289241 2023-02-20 09:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488289241 Art Nouveau 1890–1910 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488289661 2023-02-20 09:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488289661 Impressionist Art (1865–1885) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488291807 2023-02-20 09:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488291807 Fauvism (1900–1935) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292103 2023-02-20 09:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292103 Expressionism (1905–1920) 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292247 2023-02-20 09:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292247 Cubism (1907–1914) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292381 2023-02-20 09:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292381 Surrealism (1916–1950) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292530 2023-02-20 09:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292530 Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292710 2023-02-20 09:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292710 Pop Art (1950s–1960s) sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292889 2023-02-20 09:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488292889 World War One sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488313727 2023-02-20 10:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488313727 World War Two sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488314378 2023-02-20 10:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488314378 Photography is born sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488324533 2023-02-20 10:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488324533 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488329957 2023-02-20 10:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488329957 Man Ray sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488930873 2023-02-20 22:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2488930873 Barbara Kruger sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495051450 2023-02-26 02:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495051450 Andreas Gursky sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495051618 2023-02-26 02:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495051618 Cindy Sherman sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495051870 https://www.moma.org/artists/5392]]> 2023-02-26 02:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495051870 Dorothea Lange sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495052060 2023-02-26 02:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2495052060 AI art 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506646768 2023-03-07 10:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506646768 Social Media sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506646852 2023-03-07 10:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506646852 sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506655013 The history of photography cannot be told without explaining the two crucial moments that determined its development.

The first was the discovery of camera obscura[1], and the second (literally second, since it happened much later) was the observation that some substances change their appearance when exposed to light.

The term itself comes from two pertinent words combined: photo comes from the Greek word phos (photos in genitive), meaning light, and graphe is another Greek word that means drawing or writing.

It was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel, who was an important contributor to the development of the discipline himself.

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]]> 2023-03-07 10:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506655013 Colour Photography! We're not in Kansas anymore Toto... sclifford23 https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506657557 Watch this short video about how colour film photography works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxPmQe6Lz6U&t=12s]]> 2023-03-07 10:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sclifford23/kmqt53zm5k8yrfgk/wish/2506657557