History of Photography

  • Willian Henry Fox Talbot

    He was a British inventor and photography pioeer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Nicephore Niepce

    He was a French inventor, noted as one of the inventors of photography. He developed heliography which is a technique used to produe the worlds oldest surviving photograph. He also invented the Pyreolophore, the worlds first internal combustion engine.
  • Louis Daguerre

    He was a French artist and photographer, recognised for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography
  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion picture projection.
  • Calotype

    An early photographic process intorduced by William Henry Fox Talbot using paper coated with silver iodide.
  • Daguerrotypes

    Introduced in 1839, it was the first publically announced photographic process and the first to come into widespread use. A daguerrotype image is formed on a highly polished silver surface, usually Sheffield plate
  • George Eastman

    Was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company and made popular the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the worlds first film makers George Eastman and Louis De Prince
  • Kodak

    An American technology company focused on imaging solutions and services for businesses. The headquarter is headquartered in New York. Kodak was founded by George Eastman.
    Kodak provides packaging, functional printing, graphic communications and professional services for businesses around the world.
  • Camera Obscura

    Came about in the 19th century, it is an optical device often used by artists to make quick sketches