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A Quick History of Photography
Photo I
Slide2Beginnings of Photography
Camera
Obscura
– “dark chamber”Described first by 10th century Arabian scholar Alhazen
Slide3How a camera obscura
works
When light passes through hole it bends or REFRACTS
Slide4Renaissance
used as drawing tool to trace images
Slide5Entertainment
Entertainment – people paid to look inside a camera
obscura
– first “reality” show
Slide6First Photograph - 1826
Joseph
Niephore
NiepceCoated a sheet of pewter with “asphalt” and lavender oilExposed for eight hours in a camera obscura
Slide7Daguerreotype - 1839
Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype showed fine detail
Slide8Calotype - 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 drawing
Slide9Collodion- 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 photos
Slide10Gelatin Emulsion – Roll Film – 1880s
Invention of gelatin based emulsion that could be applied to roll film
This concept made photography accessible and easy to everyone
Slide11Kodak - 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.
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Slide12Common 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 war
Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17Pictorialists
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 scenes
Slide18Slide19Photo Succession and
“
Straight Photography
”Alfred StieglitzPromoted and published avant-garde photographers – unmanipulated photosMagazine – “
Camera Work
”
Paul Strand, Edward Weston,
Ansel
Adams
Slide20Slide21Action Photographs
First photos had long exposures
Action would be blurry
Eyes would turn whiteEadweard Muybridge – motion studies using trip wires and multiple cameras
Slide22Slide23Zoetrope
Slide24Zoetrope 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)
Slide261990: Adobe Photoshop released
Slide271999: first DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.
Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000
Slide282000: Camera phone introduced
Japan
by Sharp/J-Phone
Slide29End of An Era
2001
: Polaroid goes bankrupt
2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras
Slide302007: The first iPhone is released
Slide31Social Media Takes Over
2004:
starts2010: Instagram is created2011: Snapchat is launched
A Quick History of Photography
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