by Sheena

Camera Obscura

2015-09-17 10:05:26 UTC

Camera obscura, Latin for 'dark chamber' is an optical device that led to photography and the photographic camera. This device consists of a box/room with a hole on the side that light can pass through to strike a surface. It is then reproduced and flipped 180 degrees but the colour is preserved. Eventually, the pinhole was made smaller so that the image would be sharper. However, if the pinhole was too small then the image would be dimmer due to a lack of light and so more practical ones used a lens to allow for a larger aperture.

Nicéphore Niépce - The First Photograph

2015-09-17 10:13:52 UTC

Niépce created the first photograph from nature and is now known as the father of photography because of it. the photo was known back then as a heliograph, literally meaning 'sun writing'. the first photo was a view from Niépce's window in France, 1826. Originally, Niépce was a printmaker who worked a lot with the camera obscura

The Daguerreotype

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-01 10:11:19 UTC

The Daguerreotype was the first publicly announced photo process, and for nearly 20 years it was the most frequently used. Louis-Jaques-Mandé Daguerre created this technique with Niépce until his death in 1833 when there was no practical use for the technique. By 1837, Daguerre had found a solution to his problem. By using silver-plated copper sheets that were treated with iodine, he made the plates sensitive to light and exposed them in a camera before developing the images with a warm mercury vapor.

First Portrait Photograph

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-07 11:01:59 UTC

In 1839, Robert Cornelius made the first ever portrait photograph of a human. He set up the camera in the back of his father's gas-lamp importing importing business in Philadelphia. He sprinted into frame after he removed the camera lens and sat there for around a minute or so before he covered the lens. This photograph is considered to be the first successful photographic portrait of a human being as well as the first photographic self-portrait.

Fox Talbot

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-08 09:57:26 UTC

Three weeks after Louis Daguerre displayed his 'Daguerrotypes' (pictures on silver plates) to the French Academy of Sciences, Fox Talbot reported his 'art of photogenic drawing' to the Royal Society. His process based images on paper that had been made light sensitive rather than on bitumen and copper-paper. He then went on to develop the three primary elements of photography; developing, fixing, and printing. He accidentally discovered that images developed after a short exposure, even though the image was difficult to see. However, he also found that he could develop it chemically into a negative which was then fixed chemically whichremoved the light-sensitive silver and enabled the picture to be viewed in bright light. Talbot realised he could repeat the process of printing from the negative and could make any number of positive prints, unlike the Daguerreotypes. He patented his 'calotype' in 1841 before receiving a medal from the Royal Society the following year for his work

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-08 10:11:10 UTC

Dry Plates

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-08 10:13:49 UTC

In 1878, George Eastman was one of the first to demonstrate the convenience of gelatin dry plates as opposed to the messy wet plate photography that was being used at that time. The dry plates could be exposed and developed at the photographer's convenience whereas the wet plates had to be coated and exposed almost immediately after then developed whilst still wet.

The Birth Of Kodak

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-14 09:45:34 UTC

The name "Kodak" was born in 1888 and the KODAK camera was released on the market. This led to the birth of snapshot photography as we know it today, making Kodak one of the leading camera brands as well as one of the most famous and well known to this day. Kodak's slogan when the camera was first released was "You press the button - we do the rest."

Photography Of 1890

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-14 09:53:27 UTC

In 1890, George Davison exhibited The Onion Field in the royal Photographic Society's Annual Exhibition. This image was captured with a pin-hole camera and printed on rough paper which introduced impressionist photography. Not only this, but also the first independent speed rating for all emulsions was devised by two British scientists, Hurter and Driffield and became known as H & D numbers. Also, with the rise of photography, photos started to replace hand-drawn illustrations in popular publications.

Daylight-Loading Camera

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-14 10:06:29 UTC

Kodak marketed its first daylight-loading camera in 1881, meaning that cameras didn't need to be reloaded using a dark room anymore. Photographic film and paper manufacture was transferred to four newly-constructed buildings in Rochester and the company's first manufacturing plant outside the U.S. was opened in Harrow, England.

Pocket KODAK Camera

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-14 10:10:28 UTC

The pocket KODAK camera was announced in 1895 and used roll film as well as incorporating a small window where positioning numbers for exposure could be read by the photographer. The folding pocket KODAK camera was then marketed in 1898 which produced a 2 1/4-inch by 3 1/4-inch negative. This was the normal size for decades.

Brownie Camera

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-14 10:18:11 UTC

1900, Kodak released their first Brownie cameras and were priced at $1. These made photography more available to the general public due to how cheap the cameras available now were.

Edward Steichen

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-14 10:33:58 UTC

Steichen was a photographer and curator whose careers spanned the first six decades of the 1900s. He preferred to use highly dramatic scenes and poses in his photography, adopting a more modern style after the war and printing on gelatin silver paper with less manipulation within the printing process. He worked mostly as a portrait photographer between 1923 and 1937 for Conde Nast publications which defined celebrity portraits in America.

Eugene Atget

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-14 10:50:50 UTC

Atget trained himself in the art of photography from the year of 1898 in Paris. He also worked as a topographic and commercial photographer from the years of 1898-1925. His well-known photograph of a barrel organ-grinder and singing girl was taken somewhere in Paris in the year of 1898.

Heinz Hajek-Halk

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-16 09:57:44 UTC

In 1936, Hajek-Halke captured the iconic photograph Black-and-White Nude. Hayek-Halke used extensive experimentation in order to create the perfect aesthetic which is, in fact, a montage of photographs. It is the same model and the image has been mirrored to create the X shape which holds so much aesthetic value.

Automatic Brownie

sheenawoodward — 2015-10-16 10:11:47 UTC

In 1959, KODAK introduced the first automatic brownie camera, called the Starmatic, which sold 10 million units over the next five years. This was followed by the Instamatic camera. This was inexpensive and an easy-load camera which was also point-and-shoot.