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Thomas Wedgewood and Sir Humphrey Davy, presented to the Royal Institution of Great Britain a stepping stone to the creating of photography. They presented a way to copy paintings or profiles on plates but they were unable to make these plates non-light sensitive and eventually they would go black.
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War between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Following the War of 1812, both countries fell into a state of depression. Unemployment numbers skyrocketed, businesses went bankrupt, and there was a general sense of panic amongst the public.
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Niépce created the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process. He created a print using a photoengraved printing plate.
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The industrial revolution was beginning to make a noticeable impact on the country of France.
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This revolution led to the overthrow of King Charles X. Students, workers, & liberal politicians raided the streets of Paris. There were revolutionary barricades 15m tall that appeared. The troops proved ineffective during the 3 days of riots & demonstrations.
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Henry Fox Talbot, who is thought to be one of the founders if not the founder of photography took an image of a window. Although, Talbot announced his process later than Daguerre, they ware both thought to have been working on different photographic processes at the same time. Fox-Talbot's process was called a Calotype.
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On this day, slavery was abolished in the British Empire.
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Daguerre created what is generally believed to be the first image of a human being in Paris.
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Word of the invention of photography hit the United States.
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The First Opium War was between China and Britain. The war was eventually won by Britain forces.
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Daguerre's process was announced. Printing an image on a silver plate that had been polished down to a mirror like surface.
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The French Academy of Science held a special meeting to publicly disclose the formula for making daguerreotypes. The technique’s inventor, Louis Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, had sold his formula to the French government so that it could be made freely available to the public without patent restrictions.
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Henry Fox-Talbot patented his intention of the photographic process, Calotype.
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The world's first strictly photo-book was created by Anna Atkins. The book was titled, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions.
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Talbot published a book of his photographs at the time and released them in six different sections.
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War over land between Mexico and the United States lasted roughly 2 years and was won by the United States. This was the first war in history to be photographed.
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The Wet Collodion Process was invented in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer. The completion of this process could result in a glass negative and/or different types of prints.
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The war was the first conflict that produced many photographic images. The war was between Russia and an alliance made up of Ottoman, France, Britain and Sardinia. Russia lost after 2 and a half years at war.
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By the mid-1850s in the United States alone, approximately three million daguerreotypes were produced annually, representing a retail industry of seven and a half million dollars.
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The Second Opium War was again between the Chinese, and this time both Britain and France. This war was again won by the British/French forces.
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This war between the North and South. It was a very deadly 4 year war.
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Stereographic camera's were used during the Civil War to help make photographs more realistic. When images were looked at through a stereoscope, they were three-dimensional looking
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There were cameras designed to take multiple images at a time. Soldiers would use these images to send home to their loved ones.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented and patented the first working telephone.
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Thomas Edison was able to produce a long-lasting electric light bulb.
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George Eastman invented a roll of coated paper ready to have images captured on it, and a roll holder that could be on the back of the camera. This would allow the photographer to take a photograph without needing to replace the glass plate and reload paper. He released his idea at a London exhibit for new inventions where it won several awards.
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In the summer of 1888 ad's began to pop up in the local newspaper as George Eastman had released his first Kodak camera to the public. A simple camera that essentially anyone could use.
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The movement was started by Alfred Stieglitz and was created to help American photographers be able to artistically express themselves in exhibitions. You began to see a lot more photographers focused on form as opposed to atmosphere.
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Strand was able to essentially pave the path for a new generation of photography as an art. He focused more on straight photography. The aesthetic became the aesthetic of the 20's.
