History of Photography Timeline
A comprehensive timeline with the most important milestones in the history of photography. Created by Profr. Oscar Colorado Nates (Advanced Photoraphy, Universidad Panamericnaa Mexico)
0100-07-01 16:59:44
Abd El Kamir
He discovered the photosensitive emulsion (silver nitrate) it tended to darken with the light. He doesn’t knew the camera oscura.
0300 BC-07-01 08:59:50
Aristotle
Aristotle described the camera oscura.
0400 BC-09-01 00:00:00
Mozi
Mozi wrote about the camera oscura as the "hidden treasure"
0400-02-01 08:01:11
Alhacen of Basra
He used the camera oscura to watched eclipses.
1277-07-01 16:59:44
Roger Bacon
In his “Science Perspective", Bacon improved the camera oscura placing a mirror behind the pinhole (whole where the light enters) in order to project the images horizontally.
1284-07-01 16:59:44
Salvino d'Armate
He invented the glasses.
1490-07-04 16:59:44
Leonardo Da Vinci
He realized the first illustration and complete description of the camera oscura.
1600-09-01 10:38:01
Giambattista della Porta
He refers to the camera oscura as the "buried treasure"
1600-09-01 10:38:01
Gerolamo Cardano
Use of a biconvex glass disc
1608-09-01 00:00:00
First Telescope
Hans Lippershey made the first telescope.
1611-10-01 19:22:07
Johanes Kepler
He created a system of concave and convex lenses to correct aberrations and distortions.
1668-10-01 19:22:07
Isaac Newton
He included glasses to the telescope and a visor
1700-05-01 20:57:45
Jacques-Alexander-Cesar Charles
He obtained the first impregnated silhouette on silver salts.
1727-01-01 11:14:37
Johann Heinrich Schulze
Discover ownership of black to light having a mixture of chalk etching and silver nitrate.
1750-09-03 00:00:00
Silhouette portraits
The silhouettes were the shape of an economic portrait more common on England, France, and Germany.
1758-05-01 20:57:45
John Dollond
He commercialized telescopes with achromatic lenses.
1760-01-01 11:14:37
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
He studied the reactions of silver light systematically.
1786-09-14 10:38:01
Physionotrace
Louis Chrétien invented a similar device to pantograph to transfer intaglio plate profile models.
1792-05-01 20:57:45
Thomas Wedgewood
He improved the experiments of Jacques-Alexandre-Cesar Charles, but the images can only be contemplate on the shade and a few minutes (it was missing (lacked binder). Were called "blueprints"
1825-07-14 00:00:00
Actinometer
Invented by Sir John Herschel (who coined the term “photograpy” years latter) ir was an instrument to measure the intensity of light.
1826-05-01 20:57:45
The first photography in history
In 1827 Niépce accomplished the first photography of the history: a view from the window of his house, it took 8 hours of exposure to be realiced.
1826-05-01 20:57:45
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
He could achieve the first successful fixation of an image produced with one camera oscura. He converted in one of the fathers of photography.
1829-09-01 00:00:00
The Niépce-Daguerre Contract
Louis Daguerre convinced Niépce to sign a collaboration agreement to work together the effort for the fixation of images obtain by the camera oscura.
1835-08-13 00:00:00
Daguerre's First Photograph
Louis Daguerre achieved his first permanent image.
1839-08-19 00:00:00
Photography's official presentation
The 19 of august 1839 Louis Daguerre showed his invention (Called daguerreotype) to the Science Academy of Paris.
1839-11-01 02:14:37
Calotype
William Henry Fox Talbot realized a procedure called "Calotype". He used paper instead of metal plates and can generate a negative with multiple copies.
1839-12-12 02:14:37
The First Commercial Camera
It was created by Giroux in París. Its weight was 54 kg, and it had a cost 400 francs.
1840-01-01 02:14:37
The first Tableau Vivant
Hyppolite Bayard created his image "The drowned" in protest at not being recognized as a parent of Photography.
1840-11-21 02:14:37
Daguerrotypes in seconds
Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson patented a camera that allowed shorter exposure times.
1841-05-05 00:00:00
The first photographic studio in London
Richard Beard opened his first portrait studio
1843-05-09 00:00:00
First facsimile machine (FAX)
Alexander Bain created this device and in 1856 he opened the first fax service between París y Lyon (France).
1843-09-08 00:00:00
First Photo Book
Anna Atnkins published "Photographs of British Algae", the first illustrate book with photographies
1843-12-01 00:00:00
David Octavius Hill y Robert Adamson
They realized portraits and they were the first documenting the social reality in the fishing villages.
1847-01-15 02:14:37
The First Photography Society in England is Founded
It creates in England the Calotype Club". Its members were Frederick Scott Archer – creator of the wet collodion, Roger Fenton and Hugh Diamond, among others.
1847-04-22 00:00:00
Driver Shellac roll
Frederick Bakewell improved, in England, the design of Alexander Bain to create facsimiles.
1849-01-01 02:14:37
Glass Negative with Albumen
Abel Niepce used egg whites to bond the silver salts.
1849-01-01 02:14:37
Wet collodion
Gustave LeGray proposed the use of the wet collodion to reduce shutter times.
1849-12-12 00:00:00
Mathew Brady
He opened his studio in Washington D.C. and performed photographs of the president and his cabinet. His job of documentation in the Civil War was fundamental.
1850-01-01 02:14:37
The portrait
By the mid-nineteenth century portrait was the main activity of photographic studios.
1850-01-01 02:14:37
pictorialism
For a decade several photographers used the photography with artistic purposes, borrowing themes and inspire treatments in painting. They stressed HP Robinson, Oscar Gustav Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron and others.
1850-01-04 00:00:00
Albumen Print
Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard invented the printing paper to albumin and achieves greater depth and contrast.
1850-01-04 00:00:00
Nadar
Gaspard Félix Tournachon (Nadar) became in one of the fundamental portraitist. He created one of the most important photo studios in Paris.
1851-05-01 00:00:00
First Photographic Society in France
Know as the Societé Héliographique, it became in 1854 in the Sociétè Française de Photographie.
1851-08-01 00:00:00
Gustave LeGray
One of the pioneers of art photography. Provided its photos a aesthetic sense.
1852-01-01 02:14:37
Photos from Egypt
Maxime du Camp takes photographic records in Egypt.
1852-05-01 02:14:37
Fotografía Estereoscópica
John Benjamin Dancer created the first first stereoscopic camera of the history.
1852-10-02 02:14:37
tintype
Adolphe-Alexandre Martin created the tintype technique: metal plate used as a support for the collodion.
1853-10-20 02:14:37
Photographic Society of London
Founded by Roger Fenton
1854-07-28 02:14:37
ambrotype
James Ambrose Cutting invented the ambrotype, or collodion direct printing.
1855-01-01 02:14:37
First war photography
Roger Fenton, first war photographer created "Valley of the Shadow of death"