And how far we have come By: Lauren Shiels

 He took the worlds first photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.

 Mathew Brady and his staff of photographers exposes over 7,000 negatives of photographs taken through out the time of the Civil War.

 Known for his invention Carte de Visite, which started a wave of popularity with portrait photography in France.

 James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879)  In 1861 he presented the worlds first colour photograph by using red, blue and green filters, in the front of the camera.

 In 1888, the first Kodak camera was created to have a roll of 20 foot long paper, enough to hold inch circular photographs.  One year later roll-film was created.  “Brownie Box” (1900) George Eastman

 Development of multi-layer colour negative films  Margret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for “LIFE” magazine.

 Photography is a way to see into the past and a way to tap into the present.

 Questions?