2. History Of Photography
• The history of photography commenced with the invention and
development of the camera and the creation of permanent images
starting with Thomas Wedgwood in 1790 and culminating in the
work of the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.
3. Frederic Scott Archer Invented the
collodion process-1854
• Invented by Frederic Scott Archer
• In the 1850s
• Wet collodion photographic process produced a glass negative and
a beautifully detailed print.
• Dry collodion photographic method that used a glass plate coated
with a light-sensitive gelatinous emulsion
6. George Eastman Invented Roll
Film-1884
• born in 1854, and was an American inventor who
created the Kodak.
• Invents flexible, paper-based photographic roll film
• Kodak was the first mass market camera
8. Brownie Camera-1900
• First mass-marketed camera
• Simple to use and affordable, able
to be used by anyone
• was a very basic cardboard
box camera with a simple
meniscus lens that took 2¼-
inch square pictures on 117
roll film.
9. First 35mm still camera invented-
• Invented by Oskar Barnack
1913
• Produced high quality enlargements
• It was on hold for several years due to World War I
• Eventually the camera was put into production as the
Leica I (for Leitz camera) in 1925.
11. Edwin Land Polaroid Camera-
1948
• Produced self developed,
instant photos
• Land was the American inventor
and physicist whose one-step
process for developing and
printing photographs created a
revolution in photography - instant
photography.
• All fifty-seven cameras and all of
the film were sold on the first day
12. The first digital camera-1975
• Invented by Steve Sasson
• a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and
digitize the captured scene and store the digital info on a standard
cassette
• took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette
• The camera weighed 8 pounds, recorded black and white images to
a cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixel (10,000 pixels)
14. How has the evolution of the
camera affect photojournalism?
• Since the invention of the camera many photojournalists have been documenting the
world around them whether it is for the public or personal. Photojournalists have
shared many important photos and documents that share history and important
stories. With the evolution of the camera and the different ways of taking pictures and
combining it with wonderful stories photojournalism has teach us so much about the
world we live in.
15. How has the evolution of the
camera affect photojournalism?
• Many inventors of cameras have been important to the expanding of photojournalism
because as the years have passed they have been making and updating cameras as
much as possible. From wet and dry plate collodion to the digital era where we have
cameras that can take pictures in seconds, develop pictures, effects and much more.
Now that technology is constantly changing photojournalism has expanded in many
different including blogs, articles and the media. With technology advancing the
history of photojournalism will also evolve.
