This document provides an overview of the history of photography from its origins in the 1820s with Daguerre's development of the daguerreotype, the first publicly available photographic process, through the evolution of technologies like lithography, halftone printing, and digital cameras to modern camera apps on smartphones. It touches on important figures like Louis Daguerre, Samuel Morse, Mathew Brady, and Henry Fox Talbot and innovations like stereographs. The document also includes brief sections on photographic vocabulary, file types and sizes, and important legal and ethical issues involving photography.