Photography is best described in the words of the American abstract expressionist photographer, Aaron Siskind who said, “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever……it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
Two Greek words photos and graphein make up the word photograph which was first used in 1839 by Sir John F. W. Herschel. Here is the history of photographs…Happy Reading!
* 1826 - This was the year that Nicéphore Niépce makes a photograph that is permanent. The photograph was of a landscape that needed an eight hour exposure time.
* 1835 – Permanent images were made with paper soaked in silver chloride and salt solution. This was created by William Henry Fox Talbot.
* 1839 – Images were created on silver-plated copper which was coated with silver oxide and later developed using warm mercury. This was created by Louis Daguerre and was called the daguerreotype.
* 1851 – A London sculptor, Fredrick Scott Archer introduces the collodion process which is used to improve the photographic resolution by using a mixture of collodion as well as chemicals on paper.
* 1854 – This was the year when the rotating camera was introduced by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri. This camera could reproduce eight individually exposed images on one negative.
* 1861 – The Scottish physicist by the name of James Clerk-Maxwell, introduces a system which is made up three black and white photographs which are taken using a green, red and blue filter.
* 1868 – A new method of photography known as the Subtractive color photography is patented by Louiss Ducos de Hauron.
* 1871 – A new process called the dry plate process which made the use of emulsion of gelatin along with silver bromide on a silver plate was invented by Richard Maddox.
* 1877 – This year saw Eadweard Muybridge take successive pictures of horses in motion with the use of multiple cameras.
* 1880 – Dry plates are commercially made by George Eastman.
* 1888 – Saw the birth of the first Kodak camera. It was loaded with a 20 foot roll of paper!
* 1889 – The new improved Kodak camera came into the market. It contained a roll of film instead of paper.
* 1900 – “The Brownie” which is the first camera that is mass-marketed is introduced.
* 1907 – The Autochrome plates, which is the first color film commercially manufactured is made by the Lumiere brothers of France.
* 1913 – The first natural color system for movies known as the “Kinemacolor” is invented.
* 1914 – The Autographic system was launched by Kodak.
* 1923 – This year saw the birth of inventions by Doc Harold Edgerton.
* 1932 – Disney launched its first full-color movie called “Flowers and Trees.”
* 1936 – Kodachrome, which was the first multilayered color film was developed.
* 1942 – Kodak introduces “Kodacolor” which is its first print film.
* 1948 – The first medium-format SLR is available for sale by Hasselblad in Sweden. This is also the year when Polaroid markets its black and white film.
* 1949 – Contax S which is the first SLR to have an unreversed image in a pentaprism viewfinder is developed by East German Zeiss.
* 1959 – This was the year in which Nikon F was brought into the market.
* 1972 – Kodak introduced the 110-format camera for sale. This camera had a 13x17 mm frame!
* 1987 – This year saw the introduction of the popular Canon EOS system.
* 1997 – “Photomosaics” was published.
* 2005 – Canon EOS 5D, the first consumer priced digital SLR camera was available for $3000.
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