EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ARISTOTLE (3447-322 BC)

- Invented the first Pinhole Camera that was also known later as Camera Obscura or “Darkened Fox”

- “Camera Obscura” is an ITALIAN word for “darkroom chamber”

ALHAZEN (965-1039)

- Cast an upside down picture of the scene

- He was the one considered to make the camera

JEAN BAPTISTE FORTA

- Introduced the lens

JOHANN HENRICH SCHULZE

- German

- Discovered  Silver Nitrate turns to purple when exposed to light

THOMAS WEDGEWOOD (1802)

- First person known to have thought of creating permanent pictures by capturing camera images on material coated with light sensitive chemical.

JOSPEH NICEPHORE NIEPCE

- Started experimenting with LITHOGRAPHY

- in 1820s, he produces HELIOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS

- He took the world’s very first photograph called HELIOGRAPHY

POINTS DE VUE

- Smart images made by the Camera Obscura with more than eight hours exposure

LOIUSE JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE (1838-1839)

DAGUERREOTYPE, the first practical photographic process was introduced to the world.

DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS

1. Clipping the corners and bending the edges of the plate

2. Polishing

3. Sensitization

4. Exposure

5. Development

6. Fixing

7. Gilding

8. Sealing, casing and other display options

MATHEW B. BRADY

When the American Civil War broke out, he was able to preserve the scene with the  use of a camera.

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1839)

- Father of Modern Photography

- Invented the Calotype

- Calotype: produces negative picture on paper, the light on the image was recorded dark and dark as light

- Image of a latticed window in LACOCK ABBEY in 1835 – printed from the oldest photographic negative in existence.

JOHN F.W. HERSCHEL

- Coined the word “PHOTOGRAPHY”

- Used the terms “negative” and “positive” prints

- Invented the blueprint CYANOTYPE PROCESS

FREDERICK SCOTT ARCHER

- Pioneered the WET COLLODIAN PROCESS

1. Polishing the plate

2. Coating the plate

3. Sensitizing the plate

4. Developing the plate

SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1666)

- Proved white light is the strongest light

- Light-Prism-Refracting and diffracting

RICHARD LEACH MADDAOX (1884)

- introduced the plate gelatin

- prominent in PHOTOMICROGRAPHY

NADAR

- Took the first aerial photographs from a tree balloon in 1858

GEORGE EASTMAN

- Introduced the use of roll film for a portable camera

WILHELM ROENTGEN

- discovered x-ray photography

JAMES CLARK MAXWELL

- Discovered wavelength structure of light after 20 years of research

EDWIN H. LAND (1947)

- Introduced Polaroid (one-step photography)

STEVEN SASSON

- Invented the Digital Camera

1800

- Thomas Wedgewood and Humphey Davy produced photograms

1839

- Science of Photog became a public knowledge

1850

- Photog was used as an art

1835

-  colored films, sensitized materials, and cameras were sold in the market

1859

- first legal application of p

1890

- full corrected lens

1906

- a plate was place don the market that could reproduce all colors in equivalent shades of gray

1907

- Lumiere color process was introduced

- Panchromatic film was used w/ blue, green, red filter

1935

- color process, and electronic flash

1960

- laser; made holograms possible

- holograms – 3d pics

1970

- colored p as an artistic medium

1981

- Sony: first consumer camera

- not  fully digital, tho

1988

- Arrival of true digital cameras

1990

- Kodak unveiled the DCS 100 (first commercially available digital camera