The History of Photography

A Brief History of Photography

• The camera obscura, which projects a reversed image through a small opening, was used to study optics and astronomy until the 16th century.

• The first successful attempt at capturing camera images in permanent form was made by Thomas Wedgwood in 1800.

• Nicéphore Niépce managed to fix an image captured with a camera in 1826, but it required several days of exposure and the results were crude.

• Louis Daguerre developed the daguerreotype process, the first commercially viable photographic process, in 1839.

• The paper-based calotype negative and salt print processes were introduced by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839.

• The collodion process with glass-based photographic plates was commonly used from the 1850s.

• Roll films were introduced, making photography easier and more accessible to amateurs.

• The introduction of digital cameras in the 1990s revolutionized photography.

• Traditional film-based methods were marginalized as digital technology improved.

• Photography became a ubiquitous everyday practice with the introduction of smartphone cameras.

• The word "photography" was coined by Sir John Herschel in 1839, based on the Greek words for "light" and "drawing, writing".

• The earliest known written record of the camera obscura is from Chinese writings by Mozi, dated to the 4th century BCE.A Brief History of Photography

• The daguerreotype process was announced in 1839 and was the first practical photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre.

• Hércules Florence developed his own photographic technique in 1832 or 1833 in Brazil, which he referred to as "photographie".

• Henry Fox Talbot created stabilized photographic negatives on paper in 1835 and later invented the calotype process in 1841, which allowed for the creation of a large number of positive prints from a single negative.

• The mid-nineteenth-century photographers helped establish photography as a more precise means of making a record of landscapes and architecture, such as Robert Macpherson's photographs of Rome and the surrounding countryside.

• In 1884, George Eastman developed dry gel on paper, or film, to replace the photographic plate, and in 1888, the Kodak camera was introduced to the mass-market.

• Stereoscopic photography was developed in the mid-1800s by Charles Wheatstone, who combined the technique with photography to create stereoscopic pairs.

• The first durable color photograph was taken by Thomas Sutton in 1861, but it was not until the 1890s that the Autochrome plate was developed by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

• Kodachrome film was introduced in 1935, which captured the red, green, and blue color components in three layers of emulsion, and was followed by the development of digital photography in 1957 by Russell A. Kirsch and his team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.The Invention and Impact of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)

• The CCD was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith at AT&T Bell Labs.

• The CCD was initially designed as a memory device but was later discovered by Dr. Michael Tompsett to be an imaging sensor.

• The CCD was used as the image-capturing optoelectronic component in first-generation digital cameras.

• The CCD has been increasingly replaced by the active pixel sensor (APS) in cell phone cameras.

• Cell phone cameras, fueled by the popularity of mobile phones, have dramatically increased photographic activity and material.

• The first photograph was published on the web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992.

• The web has been a popular medium for storing and sharing photos ever since.

• Social media sites and apps such as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Picasa (discontinued in 2016), Imgur, Photobucket, and Snapchat have been used by millions of people to share their pictures.

• The CCD has played a significant role in the growth and popularity of digital photography.

• The CCD has also contributed to the rise of citizen journalism.

• The CCD has revolutionized the way we capture and share images.

• The CCD has paved the way for new technologies such as digital video cameras, medical imaging devices, and more.