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Ages who lived around 1000 AD, invented the first pinhole camera,
(also called the Camera Obscura } and was able to explain why the
optic laws that made pinhole cameras possible, around 330 BC, he
questioned why the sun could make a circular image when it shined
spend the rest of his life and made all his important inventions.
The records from his experiments were of a great importance for the
photographic film.
to aid in an investigation.
and not paper, this wet plate created a more stable and detailed negative.
Heliographs - (sun prints) were the prototype for the modern photograph.
were made.
Hercules Florence - (1804-1879) Few details are known for his life.
was found.
and with five hundred franks that received as financial help from
Arago for improving his method, prevented him from presenting the
photosensitive paper
sheet of paper.
1861-65: Mathew Brady and staff (mostly staff) covers the American
out to the West. The most famous images were taken by William
settles "do a horse's four hooves ever leave the ground at once"
1880: George Eastman, age 24, sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in
1890: Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives, images of
develops camera using the modern 24x36mm frame and sprocketed 35mm
movie film.
established in Tokyo.
1925: André Kertész moves from his native Hungary to Paris, where he
at MIT
shoots himself.
1934: Fuji Photo Film founded. By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and
(SLR) camera
1947: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour start the
photographer-owned Magnum picture agency
1949: East German Zeiss develops the Contax S, first SLR with an
Nikonos
1975: Nicholas Nixon takes his first annual photograph of his wife
and her sisters: "The Brown Sisters"; Steve Sasson at Kodak builds
1980: Elsa Dorfman begins making portraits with the 20x24" Polaroid.
1983: Kodak introduces disk camera, using an 8x11mm frame (the same
1985: Minolta markets the world's first autofocus SLR system (called
1999: Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up DSLR
the Olympus E-1; Canon Digital Rebel introduced for less than $1000
infrared light.
Schulze proved that the darkening of silver nitrate was caused by light
and ruled out the possibility of the change being caused by temperature,
camera obscura.
able to reduce exposure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image
process of photography.
two lines.
the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will
Sir John F.W. Herschel - a scientist who first used the word photography
in 1839. The word photography was derived from the Greek words Photos,
journalistic intent.
the image and therefore the prints produced had to be viewed for very
short periods of time in a darkened environment.