2. Camera Obscura
‘Camera’ means ‘room’ in Latin and ‘obscura’ means ‘dark. The earliest mention
of this type of device was by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti (5th century BC).
He formally recorded the creation of an inverted image formed by light rays
passing through a pinhole into a darkened room. He called this darkened room
a "collecting place" or the "locked treasure room." Artist created a smaller
version of this and made a box big enough to fit paper in and the light projected
a image onto the paper and the artist began to use this to trace whatever was
projected onto the paper.
3. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Niépce took what is believed to be the world’s first photogravure etching, in
1822 of an engraving of Pope Pius VII, but the original was later destroyed
when he attempted to duplicate it. The next creation was known as ‘The First
Permanent Photograph’ in 1826. A cousin, Claude Félix Abel Niépce de Saint-
Victor, 1805–70, was a chemist and was the first to use albumen in
photography. He also produced photographic engravings on steel. Albumin
formed from Latin: albumen, is dried egg whites that uses light and heat to
print photographs onto steel and paper.
4. Louis Daguerre
Daguerre started a partnership with niepce in
1829 but when niepce died in 1833 Daguerre
was left to continue the creation his own way.
He succeded and made the daguerretype in
1939.
