1. The Art of Photography
How do you see things?

2. Where it all began… Ancient Times Camera Obscura
camera - latin for “room”
obscura - latin for “dark”
-hence the term
“darkroom” to be
used later…

3. Brief History of Photography
16th century: Brightness and clarity of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole inserting a telescope lens.
17th century: Camera obscuras in frequent use by artists and made portable in the form of sedan chairs.
1826: Nicéphore Niépce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper to make the worlds first photograph.

4. 1837: Louis Daguerre creates images on silver-plated copper, coated with a solution and "developed" with mercury. Daguerre is awarded money by the French government in exchange for publicity and the rights to for others to use the process.
1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution.
1861: Physicist James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates color photography involving three black and white photos, each taken through a red, green, or blue filter.

5. 1877: Eadweard Muybridge, takes first action photography settling do all of a horse’s hooves leave the ground at once.
: Frist Kodak camera containing roll of paper. Improved to then take roll of film instead.
1907: First commercial color film made in France.
1924: German company Leitz markets first 35mm camera.
1936: Development of Kodachrome, first color multi-layered color film.
1940’s: First commercial 35mm cameras for sale in several countries.

6. 1963: First color instant film developed by Polaroid; Instamatic released by Kodak.
1978: Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
1980: Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
1992: Kodak introduces PhotoCD.
1998: First digital still cameras available to the public.