PHOTO HISTORY
Modern photography began in the 1820s with the first permanent photographs.
Nicéphore Niépce's earliest surviving photograph, circa 1826.
The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French
inventor Nicéphore Niépce.Produced with a camera,the image required an
eight-hour exposure in bright sunshine
-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. 1843 First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. 1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process -images required
o only two or three seconds of light exposure.
A photographer appears to be photographing himself in a 19th-century
photographic studio. (c. 1893). 1859 Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton. 1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. 1865 Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected
works under copyright.
1871 Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process
- negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. 1880 Eastman Dry Plate Company founded. 1884 George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. 1888 Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
First color image, Maxwell, 1861.
1898 Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1900 First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.
1913/1914 First 35mm still camera developed.
1927 General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
1932 First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.
1935 Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
1941 Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
1942 Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).
1948 Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
1954 Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.
1960 EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.SNavy.
1963 Polaroid introduces instant color film.
1968 Photograph of the Earth from the moon.
1973 Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
1977 George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
1978 Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
1980 Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
1984 Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
1985 Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.
1990 Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
Nicéphore Niépce's earliest surviving photograph, circa 1826.
The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French
inventor Nicéphore Niépce.Produced with a camera,the image required an
eight-hour exposure in bright sunshine
"Boulevard du Temple",taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839,
was the first-ever photograph of a person. It is an image of a busy street,
but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too
much to appear. The exception is a man in the bottom left corner, who stood still
getting his boots polished long enough to show up in the picture.
1840 First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for
his camera.
-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. 1843 First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. 1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process -images required
o only two or three seconds of light exposure.
A photographer appears to be photographing himself in a 19th-century
photographic studio. (c. 1893). 1859 Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton. 1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. 1865 Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected
works under copyright.
- negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. 1880 Eastman Dry Plate Company founded. 1884 George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. 1888 Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
