the history of photography

The History of Photography

Camera Obscura‘Camera’ means ‘room’ in Latin and ‘obscura’ means ‘dark. The earliest mention of this type of device was by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti (5th century BC). He formally recorded the creation of an inverted image formed by light rays passing through a pinhole into a darkened room. He called this darkened room a "collecting place" or the "locked treasure room." Artist created a smaller version of this and made a box big enough to fit paper in and the light projected a image onto the paper and the artist began to use this to trace whatever was projected onto the paper.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Niépce took what is believed to be the world’s first photogravure etching, in 1822 of an engraving of Pope Pius VII, but the original was later destroyed when he attempted to duplicate it. The next creation was known as ‘The First Permanent Photograph’ in 1826. A cousin, Claude Félix Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, 1805–70, was a chemist and was the first to use albumen in photography. He also produced photographic engravings on steel. Albumin formed from Latin: albumen, is dried egg whites that uses light and heat to print photographs onto steel and paper.

Louis Daguerre

Daguerre started a partnership with niepce in 1829 but when niepce died in 1833 Daguerre was left to continue the creation his own way. He succeded and made the daguerretype in 1939.

Cyanotype