1. A Quick History of Photography
Photo I

2. Beginnings of Photography
Camera Obscura – “dark chamber”
Described first by 10th century Arabian scholar Alhazen

3. How a camera obscura works
When light passes through hole it bends or REFRACTS

4. Renaissance
used as drawing tool to trace images

5. Entertainment
Entertainment – people paid to look inside a camera obscura – first “reality” show

6. First Photograph - 1826 Joseph Niephore Niepce
Coated a sheet of pewter with “asphalt” and lavender oil
Exposed for eight hours in a camera obscura

7. Daguerreotype
Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype showed fine detail

8. Calotype - 1840 William Henry Talbot
Figured out how to use paper to create negatives and prints
First Contact Printing – could make multiple copies
Images were soft like a charcoal drawing

9. Collodion- Wet Plate - 1851 Frederick Scott Archer
Coated glass plates with collodion
Light sensitive when wet
Had to be processed while still wet
Photographer had to carry around complete darkroom
Could be a negative or a positive image (albumen)
Also used for tintypes and stereographic photos

10. Gelatin Emulsion – Roll Film – 1880s
Invention of gelatin based emulsion that could be applied to roll film
This concept made photography accessible and easy to everyone

11. Kodak - 1888 George Eastman – Eastman Kodak Company
Invented the equipment to mass produced roll film
First public camera – the “Brownie”
“You push the button, we do the rest.”

12. Common Early Photographs
Portraits – replaced painted portraits for general public
Travel Photos – “exotic” places such as Egypt, Africa, the American West
Civil War Photos – first time people saw results of war

17. Pictorialists
In the fight to make photography art, some photographers altered their cameras to create Impressionistic images
Used Vaseline on lenses or fuzzy printing processes
Posed “characters” in classical scenes

19. Photo Succession and “Straight Photography”
Alfred Stieglitz
Promoted and published avant-garde photographers – unmanipulated photos
Magazine – “Camera Work”
Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams

21. Action Photographs First photos had long exposures
Action would be blurry
Eyes would turn white
Eadweard Muybridge – motion studies using trip wires and multiple cameras

23. Zoetrope

24. Zoetrope Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_8fX-N3Ji4

25. 1936: Kodachrome
First color multi-layered color film (Kodak stops production in 2013)

26. 1990: Adobe Photoshop released

27. 1999: first DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.
Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000

28. 2000: Camera phone introduced
Japan
by Sharp/J-Phone

29. End of An Era 2001: Polaroid goes bankrupt
2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras

30. 2007: The first iPhone is released

31. Social Media Takes Over
2004: Facebook starts
2010: Instagram is created
2011: Snapchat is launched