The document provides a brief history of photography from its origins to modern digital photography. It notes that the first photograph was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépé and required an 8 hour exposure using a camera obscura. The document then discusses improvements and innovations like Daguerre's daguerrotype process in 1839, Matthew Brady using wagons to photograph the Civil War, and the transition to smaller and more portable cameras in the 1920s-1930s. Finally, it mentions the shift to digital cameras and photoshop in place of film and darkroom chemicals.

1. Photography: A Little
History
From Camera Obscura to Digital!

2. The first photograph ever!

3. Made by French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826!

4. How long did it take??

5. 8 hours!
He called it a heliogram (“sun drawing”)

6. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a Camera Obscura.

7. Daguerre, a French artist and
chemist.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce met Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1829.

8. Paris street in 1839
By 1839, Daguerre called his invention the “Daguerrotype”. He
still needed a whole room to make this picture!

9. By 1860, Matthew Brady only needed a big wagon to photograph the civil war.

10. Photographers in the 1800s told their subjects to sit very still.

11. Margaret Bourke White and her camera
By the 1920s and 1930s, cameras were much smaller. Photographers could take
them more interesting places.

12. Non-professionals could start using cameras too, as they got smaller and less
expensive.

13. Film got smaller and cheaper, but you still needed machines and lots of chemicals to
develop it.

14. The next big invention was the digital camera.

15. No more film- just a small card!

16. Instead of a darkroom and chemicals, computers and
photoshop!