A Brief History of Early Photographic Technology

A Brief History of Early Photographic Technology

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  A Brief Historyof Early Photographic Technology FROM INCEPTION THROUGH T H E T U R N O F T H E 1 9 TH CENTURY.
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  Invented by: Alhazen (IbnAl-Haytham) Unlike others before him, he was able to explain why the images were upside down. However, around 330 B.C.E., Aristotle questioned why the sun could make a circular image when it shined through a square hole. 1000 C.E. The Camera Obscuraa.k.a the Pinhole Camera
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  Invented by: Joseph NicéphoreNiépce(Fr ance) Exposedthe image of the countryside at his estate onto a chemical-coated pewter plate for eight hours. Named his technique "heliography," meaning "sun 1826 drawing.” First Permanent Image View from the Window at Le Gras (France, 1826) Joseph NicéphoreNiépce
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  Invented by: Louis- Jacques-Mandé Daguerre(France) Using a camera obscura and his newly invented daguerreotype process, exposed an image of a Paris street for 10 minutes. 1839 The Daguerreotype Boulevard du Temple (1838/39) Louis Daguerre
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  Made by exposing theimage on a sensitized silver- plated sheet of copper, and as a result, the surface of a daguerreotype is highly reflective. There is no negative used in this process, and the image is almost always reversed left to right. The Daguerreotype
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  First Self- Portrait Robert Cornelius, Oct.or Nov. 1839. This self-portrait is the first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced.
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  Invented by: Henry Fox Talbot (England) Sensitized paper to light with a silver salt solution and exposed the paper to light. Produced a negative image, and from the paper negative, Talbot made contact prints, reversing the light and shadows to create a detailed 1841 picture. The Calotype Window in the South Gallery of Lacock Abbey made from the oldest photographic negative in existence Henry Fox Talbot 1835
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  Invented by: Anna Atkins Atkinsplaced specimens directly onto coated paper, allowing the action of light to create a sillhouette effect. By using this photogram process, Anna Atkins is regarded as the first female 1842 photographer. Cyanotype
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  Invented by: Frederick Scoff Archer(English) Coated glass with light-sensitive silver salts. Because it was glass and not paper, this wet plate created a more stable and detailed negative. However, wet plates had to be developed quickly before the emulsion 1851 dried. Wet Plate Photography
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  Photography in the Field Becausewet-plate photographs had to be taken before the emulsion dried, the needed supplies and chemicals had to be transported with the photographer. Roger Fenton's assistant seated on Fenton's photographic van, 1855.
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  This is aversion of wet-plate photography. The finished plate produced a negative image that appeared positive when backed with velvet, paper, metal or varnish. 1854 The Ambrotype
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  Patented by: Hamilton Smith Athin sheet of iron was used to provide a base for light- sensitive material, yielding a positive image. 1856 The Tintype Tintype Photograph of Members of the 75th Ohio Infantry in Jacksonville Florida State Archives
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  Photographed by: James ClerkMaxwell (Scottish) Created a rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue. 1861 First Color Photo
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  This invention produced aglass negative plate with a dried gelatin emulsion. Dry plates could be stored for a period of time. Photographers no longer needed portable darkrooms and could now hire technicians to develop their photographs. Dry processes absorbed light quickly so rapidly that the 1879 hand-held camera was Dry Plate Photography now possible.