History of photography timeline by Alaya Collins

2010

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11th century

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The camera obscura was first used by Alhazen to study the eclipse.

1717

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Johann Heinrich Schulze was a German physician and professor who discovered the development of photography when he observed that silver salts darkened when exposed to sunlight. This discovery was important because it produced a better photographic effect than simple untarnished silver.

1826

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The first photograph was taken by French scientist Joseph Nicephore Niepce. The picture showed the Cardinal d'Amboise. To produce his image, he used photoetching, or heliograph.

1839

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The daguerreotype was invented by Louis Daguerre. This was the first publicly available photographic process. The daguerreotype was invented using the heliography.

1853

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A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called 'tin', coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. It was introduced in 1853 by Adolphe Alexandre Martin in Paris, like the daguerreotype was fourteen years before by Daguerre.

January 8, 1864

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An American photographer. Known as one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history, he is best known for his scenes of the Civil War.

1920s

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The wirephoto is the sending of photographs by telegraph, telephone, or radio.

1887

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Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. In addition to documenting a trotting horse’s gait, Muybridge also photographed activities of human figures, many of which were published in the portfolio Animal Locomotion.

1900s

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Eastman Kodak introduced the Brownie Kodak- a tiny cardboard box camera with a meniscus lens, whose film could be taken out of the camera after shooting and developed at home.

1907

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The first commercially successful color photography process appeared on the market in 1907, when the French Lumière brothers, by then famous in the world of cinema, introduced the Lumière Autochrome. Their method involved special plates which, however, cost about as much as a dozen black-and-white plates of the same size.

1929-1939

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Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.

1883

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Life magazine was created.

1955-1975

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While the Vietnam War raged — roughly two decades’ worth of bloody and world-changing years — compelling images made their way out of the combat zones. On television screens and magazine pages around the world, photographs told a story of a fight that only got more confusing, more devastating, as it went on.

1975

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A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital,^[1] largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile devices like smartphones with the same or more capabilities and features of dedicated cameras (which are still available).^[2] High-end, high-definition dedicated cameras are still commonly used by professionals and those who desire to take higher-quality photographs.