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The Camera Obscura

sorrell65 — 2024-08-26 18:17:01 UTC

The camera obscura was taken through a hole in the wall. The hole projected an upside-down image on the opposite wall.

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The first light-sensitive materials.

sorrell65 — 2024-08-26 18:20:57 UTC

While the camera wasn’t around in the 1700s, the first light-sensitive materials necessary to preserve an image were. Silver salts, originally thought to be activated by heat, were proven to be sensitive to light when Johann Heinrich Schulze used sunlight to write words with them in 1727.

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The first sun drawings.

sorrell65 — 2024-08-26 18:25:30 UTC

The first time that light-sensitive materials were used in art was actually to copy a drawing, not preserve an image. In 1822, Nicéphore Niépce created the heliograph, or sun drawing, and used the process to copy engravings.In 1826 or 1827, Niépce created the “first photograph”, titled “View from the Window at Les Gras.” It is a heliographic image and the oldest surviving camera photograph.

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The term photography is first used.

sorrell65 — 2024-08-26 18:28:38 UTC

The first person believed to call to process of recording an image as “photography” was Hercules Florence. He actually worked with silver salts to produce copies of drawings in 1833 but his work wasn’t widely shared. In fact, his contribution wasn’t recognized until photography was well past its infancy in 1973.

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The Daguerreotype

sorrell65 — 2024-08-27 23:41:00 UTC

Considered the first form of photography, in 1837 the first Daguerreotype was made by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, a painter who previously made sketches with the camera obscura and worked with Niépce. The images were captured on iodized silver plates and developed with mercury. While Daguerre first captured an image in 1835, the images were not permanent until he discovered that he could remove the remainder of the silver iodide using a salt solution two years later. This time the mage was fixed, did not fade and needed under 30 minutes of light exposure.

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Light sensitive drawings on paper

sorrell65 — 2024-08-27 23:47:03 UTC

Naming on person as the founder of photography is difficult to do because so many significant developments occurred in the 1830s. Along with Florence and Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot created a method for recording images by placing paper in a salt then silver nitrate solution to make the material light sensitive. He first created the technique in 1835 but it wasn’t until 1839 that he was able to make the image more permanent using a suggestion by Sir John Herschel. Talbot’s key contribution to photography is that this process is a negative, which allowed multiple prints to be made, unlike a daguerreotype.

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Experimenting with different materials.

sorrell65 — 2024-08-27 23:48:25 UTC

In the mid-1800s, several additional photographic processes were developed that fixed an image onto different materials. During this pivotal time in photography, processes for the wet plate, calotype, tin types, glass plates, and ambrotypes were created.

Ditching the portable darkroom

sorrell65 — 2024-08-27 23:50:03 UTC

Up until the late 1870s, taking a photo required bringing the darkroom with you and developing the image on site. That changed with the dry plate, a technique developed by several photographers including Charles Bennett. These images did not need to be developed immediately.

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The development of film

sorrell65 — 2024-08-27 23:51:16 UTC

Prior to film, taking a photograph required considerable skill and know how. George Eastman developed rolled film in 1889. He later invented the Brownie—a pre-loaded camera that allowed amateurs to take photos, then ship the camera back to Kodak for development. Another key to making photography widely accessible was instant film, invented by Edwin Herbert land in the late 1940s.

Photography goes digital

sorrell65 — 2024-08-27 23:52:02 UTC

While digital didn’t outsell film cameras until the early 2000s, the first digital still camera was created in 1975 by Kodak.