Photography has evolved significantly since its origins in the 15th century. Early concepts like the camera obscura laid the foundations, but the first permanent photograph was not taken until 1820. Major developments included Daguerre's creation of the daguerreotype process in the 1830s, Talbot's invention of the calotype negative in the 1840s, and the introduction of roll film and smaller format cameras in the early 20th century. Over time, photographs transitioned from laborious portraits to instant snapshots as new technologies revolutionized the field.

1. The Timeline Of Photography.
Photography Through The Years.
450BC-Present Day.
By Molly Wilkinson.

2. Photography And Artists.
Photography caused many artists to stop
painting portraits and start painting images
cameras couldn’t capture. Abstract pieces.
Before the camera was created, people had their
portraits painted. When the camera became
mass produced, people no longer wanted their
person painted but photographed as it did not
take so long and it made them look more like
they genuinely did.

3. Camera Obscura
First used in 450BC-390BC, Camera Obscura was
a lens less pinhole camera. Latin; camera for
"vaulted room", Obscura for "dark.”
Camera Obscura is when you are in a dark room
and there is a small hole in the wall. The image
coming in from outside through the small hole is
then projected upon the wall. It is projected
upside down.

4. Giphantie
Giphantie is a novel by Tiphaigne de la Roche. It
was published in 1760. It is most famous for
predicting the modern day process of
photography.

5. The Prediction
“You know, that rays of light reflected from different bodies form
pictures, paint the image reflected on all polished surfaces, for
example, on the retina of the eye, on water, and on glass. The spirits
have sought to fix these fleeting images; they have made a subtle
matter by means of which a picture is formed in the twinkling of an
eye. They coat a piece of canvas with this matter, and place it in front
of the object to be taken. The first effect of this cloth is similar to that
of a mirror, but by means of its viscous nature the prepared canvas, as
is not the case with the mirror, retains a facsimile of the image. The
mirror represents images faithfully, but retains none; our canvas
reflects them no less faithfully, but retains them all. This impression of
the image is instantaneous. The canvas is then removed and deposited
in a dark place. An hour later the impression is dry, and you have a
picture the more precious in that no art can imitate its truthfulness.”

6. 1820
1820 is the year The First Ever Permanent Photo
was taken. It took eight hours to develop. It was
taken by scientist Nicephore Neipce. He called it
View From The Window Of Le Gras. He put a
silver coin in nitric acid then put cooking salt
into the nitric acid. He then plastered the
mixture onto the paper giving it 6 coatings of
the stuff. Nicephore Neipce also tried this on
nickels, metal and glass.

7. 1833
This is the year that the inventor of the
permanent photograph Neipce died. Louis
Daguerre, a man working with Neipce carried on
Neipce’s work. Dagurerre took pictures on
copper plates. His photos only needed half an
hour to develop. His method of taking pictures
was widely used in Paris when the craze was to
have and take pictures of dead people. A Post
Mortem Portrait.

8. Cyanotype Process
Also referred to as the photogram or The Blue
Print Process, the cyanotype process was
created by astronomer John Herschel so he
could produce his astronomical findings with
more ease. He used hyposulphite of soda as his
photographic fixer to fix pictures and make them
permanent.

9. 1844-1855
First photographic negative was taken by a man
called William Henry Fox Talbot – a rival of
Daguerre and also the creator of the negative
picture. It was of a window in his home – Lacock
Abbey. The lightest areas of the photographed
subject appear darkest and the darkest areas
appear lightest. The negative image was poor in
quality compared to the Daguerrotype but unlike
the Daguerrotype, it could be copied many times.
William Henry Fox Talbot made a book of
photography called the Pencil Of Nature. The
photographic negative was called the Calotype.

10. Wet Plate Process
Otherwise known as the Collodion Process and created by
Frederic Scott Archer, the wet plate process was
introduced to the world in the 1850s and became very
popular as it was cheaper then the Daguerrotype and the
The Collodion process produced a negative image on
glass. This was an improvement over the Calotype
process, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot, which
relied on paper negatives, and the daguerreotype, which
produced a one-of-a-kind positive image and could not be
replicated.

11. First Moving Images
Created in 1878 by a man called Eadward James
Muybridge, the first ever moving image was of a
galloping horse. Muybridge wanted to show the
world that when a horse gallops, it takes all four
feet off the ground. 12 photographs were taken,
one after each other and then put together to
show a horse galloping.

12. 1889
The first mass market camera was produced.
Interchangeable lenses were not available for
this camera, the lens was set. Stationary. It was
a very simple box with a fixed lens and only one
shutter speed. It was preloaded with 100
exposures and was needed to be sent back and
reloaded when film was full.

13. 1905
Oscar Barnack created the first 35mm film
camera called Ur Leica. He reduced the format
of the negative.

14. 1935
The first instant camera was produced in this
year by company Polaroid. This camera allowed
the person to take the photo and for the photo
to come out straight away, the person having to
shake it a little for the picture to appear.

15. 1986

16. 1991
Kodak released first ever professional camera for
photo journalists.