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History of Photography Highlights of the 1800s

This history of photography will save you time by enabling links to biographies of photographers and histories of photographic inventions. We have tried to select the most interesting and/or informative information available.

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1816: A. Joseph Nicephore Niepce invented Camera Obscura. Click here to learn more and discover Aristotle's first reference to a pinhole camera which actually begins the history of photography!

1834 - Henry Fox Talbot improved on Niepce's photography invention by creating a permanent image Camera Obscura and Negatives.

1837 - The Daguerrotype process is developed by Louis Daguerre by creating images on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and finalized with warmed mercury.

1850-Frederick Scott Archer developed the WET COLLODION process which heavily influenced photography from 1851 - 1880.

1850- The ALBUMIN PRINT invented by Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard, was a positive print from a negative with tremendous commercial potential.

1851 - "Stereographs captured the public notice when they were displayed at the Great Exhibition and praised by Queen Victoria", although early versions appeared in the 1840s. "Stereographs ... present three-dimensional (3D) views of their subjects."

1860 - Abraham Lincoln photo-portrait by Matthew Brady who is probably the most famous photo-journalist of the 1800s in the history of photography.

1861 - James Clerk Maxwell, a inventive scientist, "came up with his own color classification system, which for anyone who looks at the controls on a TV or computer monitor will look familiar."

1861 -1865 - The Civil War photographed by Matthew Brady and staff.

1860 - 1879:U.S. Geological & Geographical Surveys featured the work of a number of photographers. William Henry Jackson and Tim O'Sullivan are featured in several articles.

1873 - John Wesley Hyatt patents celluloid.and it is "marketed as rattles, collars, film, and dental plates...."

1877 - Eadweard Muybridge fast shutter leads the way to motion pictures, and settles the argument about whether all 4 hooves of a horse leave the ground at one time.

1880 - George Eastman develops patents for coating plates and opens Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, NY.

1885 - Eastman and Walker invent the Roll Holder which gradually replaced the "plates".

1888 - Eastman introduced the Roll Holder Camera later known as Kodak.

1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen invents the X-ray, perhaps the most important inventions of the 19th Century, and receives the Nobel Prize for Physics.

1888 - Famous inventor, Thomas Edison, developed the Kinetoscope, a crude forerunner of movies.

1897 - Arthur C. Pillsbury invents the first Circuit Panorama Camera while a student at Stamford University and photographed the Yukon.

Photography History Highlights - 1900s

Probably the most famous photographer of the 1900s was Ansel Adams whose dramatic black and white photographs of the far west have intrigued and entranced a generation world wide.

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1941 - Ansel Adams has left us some of the most incredibly enduring photographs of the western United States. Click here for his history and photographs.

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