Early History (1839-1970s)

• camera obscura 
• used as help for drawing compositions
• pinhole cameras
• First photograph
• 1826 
• Nicephore
• pewter plate
• exposed for 8 hours
• contact printed
• made silver photography, works with daguerre
• Daguerreotype
• 1838
• Calotypes
• William Fox Talbot and John Herschel
• patented 1841
• predecessor to today's chemical film
• Photography becomes popular
• publicized
• many people wanted their portrait
• Tintypes
• Hamilton Smith
• 1860
• more permanent, durable, non-perishable, more clear
• George Eastman
• Kodak camera in 1888
• popularized roll film
• more convenient
• brownie camera in 1901
• made photography very popular
• Color photography
• first in 1861 using three color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell and taken by Thomas Sutton
• first printed on paper in 1872
• Autochrome
• Lumiere brothers
• first commercially successful color process
• Kodachrome
• first commercially viable color film
• Transformed perception of the medium
• Eadweard Muybridge's horse galloping
• new form of scientific method
• photojournalism
• artistic aesthetic
• Alfred Stieglitz
• Edward Stichen
• photo secessionists
• challenged what photography is
• decisive moment
• against pictorialism
• Industrialization, new technology
• August Sander
• journal photographer
• systematically documents people in Germany
• 250,000 people