Download - History of photography
Photographs have many purposes weather it being to do with art
or preserve personal memories for individuals or families eg,
taking photographs on holiday etc
They could also be used to inform the mass through the news
about events or tragedies which happen. Informing the public
and remind us about what happened.
The very first use of the word photography was by a man called
John. F.W. Herschel The word itself comes from the Greek and
translates to..
Representation by mean of lines, or drawing together by meaning
drawing with the light.
Giphante is a fictional story written by De La Roche.
In the book De La Roche talking about capturing nature images
onto canvass by using sticky substances.
It is written when left in the dark the pictures would
permanently stick onto the canvas.
However De la Roche died decades before the camera was
invented and was not aware that this fictional book would hold
any relevance in mass society.
In the Victorian era many seaside resorts had a camera obscura
which was usually set up in a small octagonal building near the
beach or on the pier. Inside, the visitor could watch a moving
color picture of the view outside
Chemical photography revolutionized the
process and sealing it through the medium of
creating permanent images.
Done in 1869, taking up to 8 hours to develop
and be exposed.
He called the method heliotography (sun
writing)
Daguerreotype, was the first publicly
announced photogrsaphic process and for
nearly twenty years was the one most
commonly used.
It was invented by Louis Daguerre and
introduced in 1839.
The calotype negative process was
sometimes called the Talbotype, after its
inventor.
It was not Talbot's first photographic process
(introduced in 1839), but it is the one for
which he became most known.
Talbot devised the calotype in the autumn of
1840, perfected it by the time of its public
introduction in mid-1841
The Civil war was one of the first wars to be
actually recorded properly through
photography.
Name of photographer: Mathew Brady
George Eastman was one of the first to
demonstrate the great convenience of
gelatin dry plates over the cumbersome and
messy wet plate photography prevalent in his
day.
Dry plates could be exposed and developed
at the photographer's convenience; wet
plates had to be coated, exposed at once,
and developed while still wet.