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History of Photography
 It’s Origins and Development
The word “photography” literally means “drawing with light”. The word was supposedly first
coined by the British scientist Sir John Herschel in 1839 from the Greek words phos, (phōtós)
meaning “light”, and graphê meaning “drawing or writing”.
 The 1st
Camera
During the Renaissance, artists had begun to use a sort of
primitive “camera” called a camera obscura (a latin term
meaning literally “dark room” from which is derived our
modern word “camera”) to more accurately copy nature
by means of drawing.

Camera Obscura

Polaroid Pictures (1848),
introduced by Edwin H. Land in
1848 was capable of producing
a fully developed photo shortly
after taking it. Around that time,
the first instant camera was also
invented
The History and Development of
Photography Timeline
MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The film roll (1889), George
Eastman created the roll of film,
which made it possible to shoot
multiple pictures one after the
other
The 35mm camera (1925), The Color photos (1936),
first Leica camera was photographic technology took
developed by Oskar Barnack. an exciting step forward with
The Leica prototype used a advances in color film. Kodak
small-format, 35mm film released Kodachrome, a film
with multiple layers for
developing in color
The Digital Camera: While the
concept of digital cameras has
existed since the 1960s, the
Eastman Kodak camera
designed by Steven Sasson in
1975 is generally considered to
be the first self-contained
digital camera.
4th Century BC Aristotle describes the camera obscura

1826 Joseph Nicéphore Nièpce takes the first preserved camera photograph

1839 Daguerre and Niépce present the daguerreotype

1841 William Henry Fox Talbot develops the negative-positive process

1851 Frederick Scott Archer introduces the collodion process

1889 George Eastman presents the film strip (Kodak)

1925 Leica releases the first small-format camera with 35mm film

1936 Invention of color film (Kodak: Kodachrome, Agfa: Agfacolor)

1948 The first Polaroid camera delivers instant images using quick development process

1956 The first aperture priority camera hits the market (Agfa Automatic 66)

1963 Canon presents the first camera with autofocus

1974 Rollei produces the first fully-automatic camera

End of the 1900s Transition from analog to digital photography

4th Century BC Aristotle describes the camera obscura

1826 Joseph Nicéphore Nièpce takes the first preserved camera photograph
1839 Daguerre and Niépce present the daguerreotype

1841 William Henry Fox Talbot develops the negative-positive process

1851 Frederick Scott Archer introduces the collodion process

1889 George Eastman presents the film strip (Kodak)

1925 Leica releases the first small-format camera with 35mm film

1936 Invention of color film (Kodak: Kodachrome, Agfa: Agfacolor)

1948 The first Polaroid camera delivers instant images using quick development process

1956 The first aperture priority camera hits the market (Agfa Automatic 66)
1963 Canon presents the first camera with autofocus

1974 Rollei produces the first fully-automatic camera

End of the 1900s Transition from analog to digital photography
 NICÉPHORE
NIÉPCE
heliography process to capture the

Notable
1st photograph

Persons LOUIS
DAGUERRE
invented the first practical process
of photography, known as the
daguerreotype
 HENRY FOX
TALBOT
credited as the British inventor of

Notable
photography;
discovered ‘negatives’

Persons MATHEW
BRADY
represents the first instance of the
comprehensive photo-
documentation of a war
 JULIA MARGARET
CAMERON

Notable
considered one of the greatest
portrait photographers of the 19th
century

Persons EADWEARD
MUYBRIDGE
bridge between still photography
and recorded movement; motion-
picture projection
References:
https://www.napoleon.org/en/young-historians/napodoc/the-birth-of-photography/

https://www.lumas.com/history-photography/

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/a-z-of-photography-joseph-nicephore-niepce-first-photograph/#:~:text=In%201826%2C%20Niépce%20used
%20his,the%20invention%20of%20the%20daguerreotype.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/william-henry-fox-talbot#:~:text=William%20Henry%20Fox%20Talbot%20was,this%20process%20revolutionised
%20image%20making.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-glass-negatives/articles-and-essays/mathew-brady-biographical-note/#:~:text=Despite%20his%20financial
%20failure%2C%20Mathew,photo-documentation%20of%20a%20war.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Margaret-Cameron

https://iphf.org/inductees/eadweard-muybridge/#:~:text=Muybridge%20invented%20the%20zoopraxiscope%20in,the%20father%20of%20motion
%20pictures.