THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

And how far we have come

By: Lauren Shiels

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

NICEPHORE NIEPCE 1765 - 1833 He took the worlds first

photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Mathew Brady and his staff

of photographers exposes over 7,000 negatives of photographs taken through out the time of the Civil War.

ADOLPHE DISDERI 1819 - 1889

Known for his invention Carte de Visite, which started a wave of popularity with portrait photography in France.

COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHS James Clerk Maxwell (1831 –

1879) In 1861 he presented the worlds

first colour photograph by using red, blue and green filters, in the front of the camera.

THE KODAK COMPANY In 1888, the first Kodak

camera was created to have a roll of 20 foot long paper, enough to hold 100 2.5 inch circular photographs.

One year later roll-film was created.

“Brownie Box” (1900)

George Eastman

WORLD WAR TWO Development of multi-layer

colour negative films Margret Bourke-White, Robert

Capa, Carl Mydans and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for “LIFE” magazine.

LOOK HOW FAR WE HAVE COME Photography is a way to see into

the past and a way to tap into the present.

Questions?