Welcome to our new blog on “HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY” on new.gppro.in
This blog is all about how photography has developed. Photography is hinged on the discovery that if you poke a hole in the wall of a darkroom you create camera obscura light passing through the hole is projected upside down and retains color and perspective the first historical mentions of camera obscura in pinhole photography are by ancient philosophers mousy Aristotle and Al Hassan in 1490.
Leonardo da Vinci records detailed descriptions of camera obscura and uses it to trace stuff by the 1700s. Camera obscura devices are common and there’s evidence to suggest artists like Rembrandt Vermeer and Caravaggio use them for sketching in 1724.
Johann Heinrich Shelton discovers that substances mix with silver nitrate reacts to light sadly the images fade soon after until one day in 1826. The world’s first photograph is taken by Josef Nietzsche for Niepce in France using a procedure called Heliography. This exposure takes several days and if you see the photograph then you can discover sunlights of both sides of the building.
But after his death meets Jay’s partner Louie de Guerre continues his working creates the first practical photographic process in 1833 called the Daguerreotype 1839. The French government buys and declares the daguerreotype free to the world. This is when cool stuff starts happening as the first photo of a human although this exposure lasted around seven minutes where a man was getting his shoes polished and was standing perfectly still thus making history this was also the first photo with Sol.
The world’s first selfie is taken by a guy named Robert Cornelius.
In 1840 Henry Fox Talbot unveils the Calotype a process based on negatives that allow for paper copies to be made. However, Talbot tries to charge license fees for the calotype so it didn’t really catch on compared to the Gare whose name is now one of 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Talbot spent his life-fighting lawsuits and eventually gave up on photography. You could say Talbot became a big negative in the end.
It’s also important to mention the contribution of Sir John Herschel who published many essential research papers in coined the term photography from the Greek words of light in drawing by the 1850s.
Mobile photo studios were all the rage because photos had to be developed on-site exposure times were about three minutes long so people use neck braces and drugs to keep still. It’s also why nobody smiled in early photos.
What could be the world’s first Photoshop, occurs in 1861 the head of Abraham Lincoln is placed on a more noble body the world’s first color photograph is also produced it’s of a bow in 1871.
Richard Leach Maddox who had an outstanding mustache invents the gelatin dry plate this means smaller cameras and no tripods necessary great Successful chap.
Now here’s a cool story in order to settle the debate of whether all four of a horse’s hooves ever simultaneously leave the ground Englishman Edward sets up twelve cameras with wire triggers in the path of a galloping horse the world’s first photo sequence proves that they do in 1885.
George Eastman founder of Eastman Kodak develops roll film the first handheld camera the Kodak goes on sale in 1888. Why he chooses Kodak is because Eastman simply likes the letter K. Kodak came preloaded with a hundred exposures that needed to be sent back to the factory for processing and reloading. When the roll was finished, Eastman takes mass-market photography a step further in the early 1900s with an affordable box camera that introduces the concept of the snapshot lights.
Employee Oskar Barnack designed the revolutionary 35 millimeters Leica which came into production in 1925. This camera allows photographers to go mobile and who would have known that it will capture the moment some of the most iconic images in history.
The first single-lens reflex SLR camera arrives in 1949 and the first digital image is created from a scan in 1957. However digital cameras would only arrive a little later in 1975 when Steve Sasson a young engineer working for Eastman Kodak invents the first digital camera but nobody at Kodak is interested in digital. Why change the profitable film photography formula.
Later Kodak only later switches to digital in 2004 and files for bankruptcy in 2012. The digital revolution begins in the 90s and DSLRs pointed shoe photography had never been more accessible well until the game changer first mobile phone with a camera came out in 2000. After 15 years later the modern smartphones have insanely powerful cameras and in just seconds we are able to capture every moment and share it online all around the world.
Photography has become a global passion and has truly brought the world closer together.
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