History of Photography

The First Camera
Photography started since the 5th-century B.C.E. In the 11th-century, an Iraqi scientist developed camera obscura. The first camera obscura used a pinhole to project an image.


The First Permanent Images
Photography began in the late 1830s in France. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce did the first recorded image.

Daguerreotype
The result from Niépce's experiment was a forerunner of modern film. To create the image, the Daguerreotypes had to be exposed to light for up to 15 minutes. The Daguerreotype was popular until in the late 1850s.

Emulsion Plates
The wet plates that took less time than Daguerreotypes. It used the Collodion process. The Two types were the ambrotype and the tintype. It was much more sensitive to light. The Civil War photographs were produced on wet plates.

Dry Plates
Richard Maddox made dry gelatine plates. It allowed photographers more freedom to take photographs. Cameras were able to be smaller.

Camera For Everyone
George Eastman started a Kodak in the 1880s. He created a flexible roll film and a small single lens. The custumer had to send the camera back for printing the film.

The Horrors of War
Many photojournalists adopted their style duling World War II. Joel Rosenthal's photograph has started since World War I.

The Wonder of Instant Images
Polaroid introduced the Model 95, which develop film inside the camera in less than a minute.

Advanced Image Control
Asahi introduced the Asahiflex and Nikon introduced its Nikon F camera in the 1950s.

Introducing Smart Cameras
The point and shoot cameras calculated shutter speed, aperture, and focus.

The Digital Age
In 1991, Kodak had produced the first digital camera and the following Canon, Nikon, Pentax cameras.

I think the The First Camera is the most significant because it was the starter of the evolution of the camara/photograph. It created the idea of camera and to take a picture. It made us to have the other camera development.