Photography In The Early Nineteenth Century

Throughout history newspapers have been dominant. They have informed citizens about events taking place throughout the world and allowed us to see the world in many different ways. The emergence of photography in the 1920s sparked the invention of photojournalism. This created; credibility, new celebrities, and additional corporate competition.

While we think of photography as a fairly modern invention, that is simply not true. In fact, there are documents on the underlying principle behind photography dating back to as early as the Fifth Century, B.C. The first recorded instance of a photographic image was found in 5th Century China. During that time, Chinese philosopher and scholar Mo-Ti described how light passing through a pinhole into a dark room created an inverted, full color image on the opposite wall. Mo-Ti the room he used to produce this

James Clerk Maxwell was the first to develop color photography, which is still extremely popular today. This talks about how he came about the process. He made contributions to optics and color vision that changed the processes to make them easier. He is credited with the discovery that color photographs could be made using red, green, and blue filters that changed the way photography was manufactured, causing even more popularity for the art of photography.

These photos do an excellent job of showing how just how bad the times were in the early 1900’s during the depression. They also show just how bad race relations were during this time in our country’s history as well. With that being said these photos can be taken and learned from in multiple ways. Because these photos are reminders they will forever live in history and are ones that I hate talking about because I would never want to experience either one of these situations nor walk in these people's shoes. I am so lucky to live in a free and thriving country that many people including myself take for granted at times.

Artists and early photographers were still only capable of using the Camera Obscura as a drawing aid and looked for another way to express their ideas other than brush and pencil. They turned to science for answers. The Camera Obscura dominated the art world until the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 (see Ch. 2). Though limited in quality and exposure, photography was immediately favorable to artists because it was quicker than drawing by hand and rendered details of reality not easily observable to the naked eye. As cameras and equipment became easier to use and portable, photographers were no longer confined to the studio and just as curious about the unexplored lands as the people viewing these images were. These photos portrayed undiscovered

Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos light and to draw. A scientist called Sir John F.W. Herschel, which was in 1839, first used the word. It was a method which was all about recording images by using light or radiation on a sensitive material. The first known camera was created by Alhazen also known as who lived around 100AD he invented the first pinhole camera this camera was used to capture the movement of the sun. Photography was explained to be the science and art of documenting photographs by capturing light on a light sensitive material which included film or an electronic sensor. Light could be reflected from objects which could expose a chemical or electronic material during a timed exposure which is typically used through a camera which can store the information chemically or electronically. The first photograph was take in 1827 taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce who made the first photograph

It is likely that many artists will have used a camera obscura to aid them in drawing, but because of the stories of the occult, or because they felt it was "cheating" in some way not many people would admit to using one. In 1764, the lens was being developed. The name lens comes from

The first photographic image was made in 1827 by a French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, who worked with Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre, a French painter, late on in his career (Photography). He called his first image “View from the Window at Gras”. Niépce’s first photographic image was a view outside of an upstairs window, which he used a camera obscura to make (Easby). The camera obscura led to the invention of photography and also to the invention of the camera. It consists of a box with a hole on one side, while light from an outside source passes through the hole and strikes the surface inside. The light is then reproduced and rotated 180 degrees and projected onto a piece of paper. When Niépce was creating this photograph, it took 8 hours to produce (Easby). Niépce used a copper plate coated in silver and pewter, a gray mixture of tin with copper and antimony. However, this led to the resolution of the image to be very grainy and hard to see (Easby). Multiple photographs of Niépce’s turned out to be black from this expose to light.

The initial style photos were made between the 1850s and 1860s, to report design for Parisian style houses. Reproduction in design diaries happened much later, between 1881 (with the development of the halftone printing process by Frederic Eugene Ives) and 1886 (when the refinement of the procedure made it fiscally practicable). This leap forward made it conceivable to imitate photos and offer to a huge gathering of people through the medium of the printed page.

In 1826 the first photograph was produced by Joseph Nicephore Niepce by combining the pinhole camera with exposure to a light sensitive surface (bitumen). In 1839 Louis Daguerre produced pictures called ‘daguerreotypes’ on silver plates. Later that year, William Henry Fox Talbot introduced his ‘art of photogenic drawing’. He had come across this idea when he had had a lack of success with sketching, and thought of creating something that would use light sensitive paper to make the drawings for him. He was able to produce his prints using light sensitive paper, and went on to develop the primary elements of photography which were developing, fixing and printing. With this he was able to create a negative of his photograph and then use this negative to make a number of prints of that one image, rather than just the one like with the daguerreotypes.

During the 1850s the photographic community pursued an increased activity to advance the medium's claims as art. In England, France, Italy, Germany and the United States several societies and publications were founded, such as the Photographic Society of London (now the Royal Photographic Society) and the Societe Francaise de Photographie, established in 1853 and 1854 respectively, still in existence. Numerous professional publications such as La Lumiere in Paris, the Photographic Journal in London, and others in Italy, Germany and the United States were at the vanguard of discussions regarding photography as a legitimate art form, promoting spaces which would included exhibitions of photography as well as painting.

Photography was invented around the 1820s. It is now the most growing hobby in the world. The first camera created is called the Camera Obscura. The Camera Obscura was used during the 13th - 14th centuries. It was a dark closed box-shaped space with a hole on one side. The Camera Obsurca got its name from the Latin word “Dark Room”. The man behind the camera was Joseph Nicephore. Other important men in photography history include Alfred Stieglitz (who changed photography into art) and Henri Carrtier-Bresson (the father of photojournalism). The next major camera movement was film cameras. These cameras came out in the early 1900s. This movement gave the Granddaddy camera its name. The Granddaddy camera is also known as a 35 mm (millimeter) point and shoot. There were many issues with film cameras. With a film camera, you could not scan an image without it possibly getting destroyed. Also with a film camera the film had to be developed. There

It would be hard to picture a technology that had more influence on life in the 1900s than photography. Although the airplane, automobile and nuclear power took center stage, it was photography that stole the show. Photography’s role in the 20th century was played out in three acts: Advertising photography, photojournalism, and historical documentation. Photographer Lewis Hine in his book, Great Images of the 20th Century, reflected on one of his child labor photographs saying, “Photographers are the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with the past” (Hine).

SNAP! SNAP! You 've just caught the perfect picture of your friend running on the beach, your dog stealing your favourite shoe, or your little brother with his hands deep in the cookie jar. Now pause and think about the future and how many times you would laugh showing these pictures to friends or family. Now rewind a couple of hundred years and imagine a world without photographs to capture these precious memories. As much as photography is used on day-to-day bases, has the concept truly crossed your mind as to how it came about? Personally, the evolution of photography has always been intriguing process - difficult and fascinating at the same time for me to understand. The first photograph was taken in 1826, by Joseph Nicéphone Niépce. The picture was taken from a window with a view at the Le Gras with a camera obscure. Unfortunately in the early years there had to be so many problems with photography, with long exposure times and working on the image. So as we know of the when photography “first” came about was in the year Fast forward 13 years later to 1839, when William Henry Fox Talbot presented his results from negative and positive processing to the Royal Institution in London, calling the “photogenic drawing”… Photography. Throughout the years photographs have been used for a variety of things from a personal level to business (promotional and commercial). But just how important is photography when the options are limitless today, could you honestly image a world

Art critic Robert Hughes once said, “People inscribe their histories, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in the images they make.” When discussing the mediums of photography and cinema, this belief of Hughes is not very hard to process and understand. Images, whether they be still or moving, can transform their audiences to places they have either never been before or which they long to return to. Images have been transporting audiences for centuries thanks to both the mediums of photography and cinema and together they gone through many changes and developments. When careful consideration is given to these two mediums, it is acceptable to say that they will forever be intertwined, and that they have been interrelated forms of