Photo I Beginnings of Photography Camera Obscura dark chamber Described first by 10 th century Arabian scholar Alhazen How a camera obscura works When light passes through hole it bends or REFRACTS ID: 629974
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A Quick History of Photography
Photo ISlide2
Beginnings of Photography
Camera
Obscura
– “dark chamber”Described first by 10th century Arabian scholar AlhazenSlide3
How a camera obscura
works
When light passes through hole it bends or REFRACTSSlide4
Renaissance
used as drawing tool to trace imagesSlide5
Entertainment
Entertainment – people paid to look inside a camera
obscura
– first “reality” showSlide6
First Photograph - 1826
Joseph
Niephore
NiepceCoated a sheet of pewter with “asphalt” and lavender oilExposed for eight hours in a camera obscuraSlide7
Daguerreotype - 1839
Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype showed fine detailSlide8
Calotype - 1840
William Henry Talbot
Figured out how to use paper to create negatives and prints
First Contact Printing – could make multiple copiesImages were soft like a charcoal drawingSlide9
Collodion- Wet Plate - 1851
Frederick Scott Archer
Coated glass plates with
collodionLight sensitive when wetHad to be processed while still wetPhotographer had to carry around complete darkroomCould be a negative or a positive image (albumen)
Also used for tintypes and stereographic photosSlide10
Gelatin Emulsion – Roll Film – 1880s
Invention of gelatin based emulsion that could be applied to roll film
This concept made photography accessible and easy to everyoneSlide11
Kodak - 1888
George Eastman – Eastman Kodak Company
Invented the equipment to mass produced roll film
First public camera – the “Brownie”“You push the button, we do the rest.
”Slide12
Common Early Photographs
Portraits – replaced painted portraits for general public
Travel Photos –
“exotic” places such as Egypt, Africa, the American WestCivil War Photos – first time people saw results of warSlide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17
Pictorialists
In the fight to make photography art, some photographers altered their cameras to create Impressionistic images
Used Vaseline on lenses or fuzzy printing processes
Posed “characters” in classical scenesSlide18Slide19
Photo Succession and
“
Straight Photography
”Alfred StieglitzPromoted and published avant-garde photographers – unmanipulated photosMagazine – “
Camera Work
”
Paul Strand, Edward Weston,
Ansel
AdamsSlide20Slide21
Action Photographs
First photos had long exposures
Action would be blurry
Eyes would turn whiteEadweard Muybridge – motion studies using trip wires and multiple camerasSlide22Slide23
ZoetropeSlide24
Zoetrope Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_8fX-N3Ji4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5khDGKGv088
Slide25
1936: Kodachrome
First color multi-layered color film
(Kodak stops production in 2013) Slide26
1990: Adobe Photoshop released Slide27
1999: first DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.
Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000Slide28
2000: Camera phone introduced
Japan
by Sharp/J-PhoneSlide29
End of An Era
2001
: Polaroid goes bankrupt
2004: Kodak ceases production of film camerasSlide30
2007: The first iPhone is released Slide31
Social Media Takes Over
2004:
Facebook
starts2010: Instagram is created2011: Snapchat is launched