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History of Photography
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Camera obscura: where the camera began
The dark room · antiquity to the 11th century
Light through a tiny hole paints an upside-down picture on the opposite wall. Mozi, Aristotle and Ibn al-Haytham all described it.
Did you know?
“Camera” is simply Latin for “room”.
The oldest surviving photograph
View from the Window at Le Gras · 1826/27 · Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce fixed the view from his window onto a metal plate. The original is at the Harry Ransom Center, Texas.
Did you know?
Last shown in 1905, it was lost for 47 years until Helmut Gernsheim found it.
One of the oldest surviving negatives
Latticed window, Lacock Abbey · 1835 · Talbot
Talbot photographed a window of his house as a paper negative.
Daguerreotype: the first public photo process
Daguerreotype · 1839 · Louis Daguerre
Each picture is a one-off on a silver-coated plate. There is no negative to copy from.
Hold your finger still to “expose” the plate
Did you know?
The street looks empty — moving people never registered. Only a man having his boots shined stood still long enough.
The negative: many prints from one
Calotype · 1841 · William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype let you print many copies from a single negative.
Did you know?
The calotype was a negative–positive process: as many prints as you like from one negative.
Wet collodion: faster, cheaper photos
Wet collodion · 1851 · Frederick Scott Archer
Glass plates had to be exposed and developed while still wet. Exposures became much shorter.
Did you know?
Photographers hauled darkroom wagons wherever they went.
Motion split into frames
The Horse in Motion · 1878 · Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge lined up a row of cameras in Palo Alto to photograph the mare Sallie Gardner at a gallop.
Did you know?
Yes — all four hooves leave the ground, but tucked under the body, not stretched out.
The camera for everyone
Kodak · 1888 · George Eastman
The first Kodak camera came loaded with 100 exposures. Slogan: “You press the button, we do the rest.”
Did you know?
When the roll ran out, you mailed the whole camera back to the factory.
The first digital camera (prototype)
Kodak prototype · 1975 · Steven Sasson
Kodak engineer Steven Sasson built a 100 × 100 pixel (0.01 megapixel) camera. It weighed 3.6 kg.
Did you know?
Saving a single image to cassette tape took 23 seconds.
A camera in every pocket
Sharp J-SH04 (2000) → iPhone (2007)
The iPhone arrives. Back in 2000, Japan's Sharp J-SH04 was one of the first camera phones.
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