The History of Photography

Paola Lynn LuboAntonia Klaussner

Define Photography:

• Greek: photos (light) and graphein (to draw)

• First used by scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel (1839)

• Method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation on a sensitive material.

Camera Obscura

• Invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham) around 1000 AD.

• The first name was pinhole camera.

• Pictures were upside down.

The First Photograph

Joseph Nicephore Niepce:

“View from the Window at Le Gras”

in 1827 or 1828

The Daguerreotype

• Louis Daguerre introduced the daguerreotype process on August 1839.

- Formed a partnership

with Joseph Niepce to

Improve upon the

photography.

Gelatin Emulsion

• A photographic process in which gelatin is used as the dispersing vehicle for light-sensitive salts.

Action Photograph and Muybridge

• Founded by Eadweard Muybridge.

• Known as ‘Father of Motion Picture’.

Zoetrope

• Invented by William George Horner in 1834.

• Consisted of a drum containing a set of still images, that was turned in a circular fashion in order to create moving images.

Kodak

• George Eastman was an avid photographer and founder of Eastman Kodak Company.

• It was founded in 1888.

Digital Photography

• The basic principle of photography is a camera sees an object because of the light which is reflected off it and into the camera’s lens. The lens of the camera is used to channel this light onto a plane, where it can be recorded and a photo created by one way or the other.

Resources

• http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/firstphotograph/

• http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventions/a/Daguerreotype.htm

• http://www.curious-eye.com/photography_pg3.php

• http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventions/a/Daguerreotype.htm

• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/227932/gelatin-process

• http://www.wildfilmhistory.org/person/180/Eadweard+Muybridge.html

• http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/zoetrope

• http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventors/ss/George_Eastman.htm

• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-digital-photography/