Photography began in the 1820s when Nicéphore Niépce captured the first photograph, though the process took 8 hours. Louis Daguerre later invented the daguerreotype, which sharply reduced the exposure time to around 30 minutes. In the mid-1800s, formats like the calotype and collodion process improved reproducibility and image quality. By the late 1800s, cameras became more portable and accessible to amateurs with the invention of celluloid film and Kodak's Brownie camera, popularizing snapshots. Photography has since transitioned to digital formats, allowing images to be easily captured, edited and shared on devices like phones.

1. History of Photography
By Haydn Hamilton

2. What is Photography?
• Photography is an art format in which pictures
are taken of a specific area of interest depending
on the artists style.
• Can differ from
• Glamorization
• Space
• Urban
• Fantasy
• Architecture

3. Photography uses
• This format of art was used for keeping
memories. As they are a capture of a specific
moment in history.
• This can differ from person family photos to
historical events such as buildings being made or
historical disputes.
• Dr. Wendle Homes “A mirror with memory.”

4. Photography Vs Art
• 20 centaury artists have argued that photography is not a
direct experience as there is an editing process. Where as a
painters accuracy is purely based on skill for any sort of
picture. This could be portrait or landscape.
• It is believed that photography creates a physically imprint
of an accurate representation. However a painters is merely
an impression.
• However it is also believed that the invention of
photography made artists see the world in a more abstract
way. It was a way to deconstruct the idea of realism in art
itself by making objects look unrealistic.

5. Giphante
• A book written a man with an amazing imagination. His
name was De La Rouche. The premise of his book was
that pictures would appear onto a canvas once a
strange liquid substance was coated onto it. Once the
substance was left to dry in the dark images from the
surrounding environment would stick to the canvas to
create a photo.
• This idea was written about in the 18th century nearly
two hundred years before photography was even
considered to be created.

6. Greek Roots
φωτός (photos) and γραφή (graphy)
meaning lines or drawing.
• This word was first said by a man by the name
of John F.W. Herschel in 1839.
• The idea of recording images by the action of
light.

7. The Camera Obscura
• This device was created out of a simple “Pin-hole
camera”. Which was used perhaps a 1000 years
ago.
• The device was a way in which to project an
image of something onto a canvas so it could be
traced. It was first used as away to look at the
eclipse safely.
• The use of light created a much brighter image.
• There is speculation that Vermeer used a camera
obscura for his paintings

8. The first ever photograph
• Photography as a useable format was first
implemented in the 1820s. With the
development of chemical photography.
• The first image was taken by the French
inventor Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.
• However the image took 8 hours to expose.

9. Daguerreotypes
• Louis Daguerre the inventor of the Daguerreotype experimented
with chemicals and compounds until he discovered that a silver
substance mixed with chalk makes an effect to darken images when
exposed to light creating a black and white effect.
• The silver was coted onto a copper plate which later had the chalk
added to it.
• The exposure time on this was only half hour which is a giant
improvement to before.
• This format created a very fine detailed
photos.
Although this format was a good accurate piece of work the photo was
a one and only original. If the photo needed to be copied two cameras
would have been set up side by side.

10. Calotype
• Invented by Hennery William Fox.
• the calotype negative provided the first practical
method of producing prints on paper from a
camera exposure.
• The earliest paper negative we know of was
produced in August 1835.
• The paper negative was of Lacock Abbey
Hennerys home.
• Used to sharpen many images it was used in
many pictures of nature to get the finer detail in
photos.

11. the collodion
• Frederick Scott Archer created this process known as the
wet plate process. Similar to the calotype however
producing the image on a glass background rather then a
paper background it produced much sharper and clearer
images.
• Using the collodion method, French painter and
photographer Adolphe Disdéri in 1854 invented the carte-de-
visite, a form of photographic calling card, which soon
became the new rage.
• Photographers who used this process travelled all over
Europe to take photos of clients. Carrying there cameras
and tripods on carts all over the country.

12. The Civil War
• The civil war was the first war that documented the events
through photography. As industrialization became more in
use in the 19th century. Industries employed photographers
to take photos of there new inventions that would
revolutionize western culture.
• For example, in 1857 British photographer Robert Howlett
took pictures of the British steamship.
• Also used to document medicine and medical notes for
doctors. Photographers took photos of soldiers who lost
limbs in the civil war.

13. Psychology
• Psychologists studied photos of people who
looked like they had mental problems. In
doing this they believed if you looked like this
you would of also had mental problems or
would be a convicted criminal.

14. Science Impact
• With the invention of faster camera scientists used
photographs as away of experimentation for such
studies as animal movement.
• With the help of an artist known as edwerd muybridge
they were able to determine that once a horse gallops
it does in fact hover in the air for a split second.
• French physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey also followed
Muybridge’s example and devised a special camera to
record sequential photographs on a single plate.

15. Early Documentation
• In the last quarter of the 19th century cameras
were used as a way to commercialize and
document the places around them.
• In one of the earliest attempts a photographer
tried to document the hazards inside the slums of
Scotland however the government quickly
scarped this as it made the city look bad.

16. Kodak Camera
• As photography celebrated 50 years of success. Modern family's
wanted to take there own photos as it would make things more
easier for money.
• The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman,
who started manufacturing paper film in 1885 before switching to
celluloid in 1889.
• His first camera was called the Kodak.It was a very simple box
camera with a fixed focus lens with the film already set up inside
the box camera.
• In 1900, Eastman took mass-market photography one step further
with the Brownie, a simple and very inexpensive box camera that
introduced the concept of the snapshot. The Brownie was
extremely popular and various models remained on sale until the
1960s.

17. The snapshot
• The snapshot is a simple concept in which you
take photos instantly to capture movement in
a photo such as running and jumping.
• But being able to freeze time to capture this
moment.

18. 35MM
• Oscar Barnack had the idea of reducing the format of
negatives and then enlarging the photographs after
they had been exposed. As development manager at
Leica, he was able to put his theory into practice. He
took an instrument for taking exposure samples for
cinema film and turned it into the world's first 35 mm
camera: the 'Ur-Leica'.
• Along with motion pictures, which the Lumière brothers of
France introduced to the world in 1895, photographs in
reproduction led to new concepts of celebrity, culture,
advertising, and entertainment.

19. Digital Photography
• Photography is now a digital process as photos
are taken digitally on a hand held device.
• They are saved onto small memory cards and
digital memory units which can hold up to
thousands of photos.
• Pictures are now taken on mobile phones and
have made editing easy with such applications as
Photoshop, instagram and various cheap ones on
the internet.