October 28th, 2009 Introduction to Early Photography
The development of photography in history can be quite confusing and nailing down a timeline can be even more confusing. I’ll try to break down the very basic timelines of early photography here. Please keep in mind, many subjects involving timelines are very debatable. This is not the be all end all resource of early photography.
The principles of optics and the camera were known in B.C., though photography had a long way to go. In the 1500’s Leonardo da Vinci had made drawings of a camera obscura, a darkroom that went back to around 1000 AD, but it wasn’t until the 1600’s that Isaac Newton figured out white light, and the 1700’s when Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that when exposed to light, silver nitrate darkened.
It wasn’t until the 1800’s until photography got very, very interesting. Around 1825-1827, Joseph Ni
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