Target Goal: Recognize the difference between the Optical and Chemical beginnings of photography.
Photo History Notes
History of Photography Timeline
OPTICAL BEGINNING OF PHOTOGRAPHY
• pre 1500’s: ______________________________, created by Leonardo DaVinci, used to form images
on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole
• 1500’s: Brightness and clarity of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole inserting a
_____________________________________
• 1600’s: Camera obscuras in frequent use by artists and made portable in the form of sedan chairs
CHEMICAL BEGINNING OF PHOTOGRAPHY
• 1727: ___________________________ accidentally creates the first photo sensitive compound by
mixing chalk, nitric acid, and________________________ in a flask; notices darkening on side of flask
exposed to sunlight..
• 1800: ____________________________ makes "______________________________" by placing
opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate. Images deteriorated rapidly if displayed under light
stronger than from _________________________________.
• 1816: _____________________________________ combines the camera obscura with photosensitive
paper (This is the first use of Optical and Chemical Photography together)
• 1826: Niépce creates a ___________________________________________________
• 1834: _________________________________ creates permanent (negative) images using paper
soaked in silver chloride. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.
Called the Calotype process.
• 1837: __________________________________________ creates images on silver-plated copper,
coated with silver iodide; called the _______________________________________.
• 1851: ________________________________________ improves photographic resolution by spreading
a mixture of collodion and chemicals on sheets of glass. Wet plate collodion photography was much
cheaper than daguerreotypes, the negative/positive process permitted
_______________________________________________.
• 1855: Beginning of _____________________________ era ... stereoscopic photos must be viewed with
a _______________________________________________.
• 1861: Scottish physicist _______________________________________ demonstrates a color
photography system involving three black and white photographs, each taken through a red, green, or
blue filter. This is the "_______________________________________" method.
• 1861-65: _________________________________ and staff (mostly staff) covers the
____________________________________ War, exposing 7000 negatives
• 1870: _______________________sent photographers out to the West. The most famous images were
taken by __________________________ and _________________________.
• 1871: __________________________________ proposes the use of an emulsion of gelatin and silver
bromide on a glass plate, the "___________________________________" process.
• 1877: ________________________________ settles "do a horse's four hooves ever leave the ground
at once" bet among rich San Franciscans by _________-________________________ photography of
Leland Stanford's horse.
• 1880: ____________________________________, age 24, sets up Eastman Dry Plate Company in
Rochester, New York.
First _________-__________ photograph appears in a daily newspaper, the New York Graphic.
• 1888: First ___________________ camera, containing a 20-foot roll of paper, enough for 100 2.5-inch
diameter circular pictures.
• 1889: Improved Kodak camera with roll of ________________ instead of ________________.
• 1900: _________________________________ roll-film camera introduced. **This is the first camera
that makes photography affordable to the average American.**
• 1906: J.P. Morgan finances ____________________ to document the traditional culture of the
____________________________________________________________________.
• 1907: First commercial __________________________________, the Autochrome plates,
manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France
• 1909: _____________________________________ hired by US National Child Labor Committee to
photograph children working mills.
• 1914: _____________________, employed by German microscope manufacturer _________________,
develops camera using the modern 24x36mm frame and sprocketed 35mm movie film.
• 1917: _____________________, established in Tokyo.
• 1924: Leitz markets a derivative of Barnack's camera commercially as the "______________", the first
high quality 35mm camera.
• 1928: Rollei introduces the _____________________________________________________ producing
a 6x6 cm image on rollfilm
• 1932: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Edward Weston, et al, form
____________________________ dedicated to
"___________________________________________________________________________"
________________________________________________ buys a Leica and begins a 60-year career
photographing people
• 1934: _____________ Photo Film founded. By 1938, Fuji is making ______________ &
___________________ in addition to film.
• 1935: ______________________________________ hires Roy Stryker to run a historical section.
Stryker then hires _______________________, ____________________________,
____________________________, et al. to photograph rural hardships over the next six years.
• 1936: Development of _________________________________, the first color multi-layered color film.
Development of ______________________, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera
• World War II:
- Development of multi-layer color negative films
- __________________________, ________________________________,
___________________________, and ________________________________
cover the war for LIFE magazine
• 1948: _________________________________ sells instant black and white film
• 1963: First ______________________________________________ developed by Polaroid.
_____________________________released by Kodak
• 1975: Steve Sasson at ______________________ builds the first working CCD-based digital still
camera
• 1980: ___________________________________ begins making portraits with the 20x24"
________________________________________.
• 1987: The popular _____________________________ EOS system introduced, with new all-electronic
lens mount
• 1990: Adobe _____________________________________ released.
• 1991: Kodak DCS-100, _______________________________________, a modified Nikon F3
• 1992: Kodak introduces____________________________________
• 1997: __________________________________ publishes _________________________
• 1999: __________________________ D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up DSLR design
by a leading manufacturer.
• 2000: __________________________introduced in _____________ by Sharp/J-Phone
• 2003: ___________________________________________ introduced for less than $1000
• 2004: Kodak ceases production of ___________________________________________
From 2005 to the present there are rapid advancements in digital photography; including HDR, high
megapixel DSLR, waterproof, impact resistant, NASA telescope photos, GoPro, drone
photography…YOU are living it!