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    The document summarizes the history of photography from its origins to modern digital photography. It outlines important dates and personalities who contributed innovative techniques and technologies, including: - The 4th century BC Greek philosopher who invented the camera obscura, the precursor to the modern camera. - The 11th century Arab scholar Alhazen who found that light through a small hole produces an image, and the 18th century French artist who replaced the hole with a lens. - The 19th century scientists who discovered the light sensitivity of silver salts and invented the daguerreotype and calotype processes. - Pioneers of color, roll film, and digital photography like Maxwell, Eastman, and Land.

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    The document summarizes the history of photography from its origins to modern digital photography. It outlines important dates and personalities who contributed innovative techniques and technologies, including: - The 4th century BC Greek philosopher who invented the camera obscura, the precursor to the modern camera. - The 11th century Arab scholar Alhazen who found that light through a small hole produces an image, and the 18th century French artist who replaced the hole with a lens. - The 19th century scientists who discovered the light sensitivity of silver salts and invented the daguerreotype and calotype processes. - Pioneers of color, roll film, and digital photography like Maxwell, Eastman, and Land.

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    The document summarizes the history of photography from its origins to modern digital photography. It outlines important dates and personalities who contributed innovative techniques and technologies, including: - The 4th century BC Greek philosopher who invented the camera obscura, the precursor to the modern camera. - The 11th century Arab scholar Alhazen who found that light through a small hole produces an image, and the 18th century French artist who replaced the hole with a lens. - The 19th century scientists who discovered the light sensitivity of silver salts and invented the daguerreotype and calotype processes. - Pioneers of color, roll film, and digital photography like Maxwell, Eastman, and Land.

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    HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY (Important personalities/Dates)

    PERSONALITES

    A famous greek philosopher who invented the first pin hole camera that was later known as the
    CAMERA OBSCURA "italian word for DARKROOM CHAMBER" which is literally translated as
    darkened fox.
    - He was the one who succeeded in recording the principle that light entering through a small
    hole produces an inverted image or figure.

    ALHAZEN(965-1039)
    -An arabian scholar who found out that light entering a small hole in the wall or shuttered
    window of a darkened room cast an upside down picture of the scene outside onto the opposite
    wall.
    -He was considered to be the one who invented the camera.

    JEAN BAPTIST FORTA


    An artist and scientist who in his pseudo science magic had made use of the camera obscura
    and replaced the hole with a lens which made the image brighter and sharper .
    - He was the first one who introduced the lens.

    JOHANN HENRICH SCHULZE


    - A german scientist ( anatomist) discovered the silver nitrate when he exposed it to light it turns
    purple.
    - He got interesting in his finding and that fair later , he discovered that the evening action was
    not due to heat but light.
    -He finally concluded that silver nitrate is sensitive to light and capable of producing images.

    THOMAS WEDGEWOOD (1802)


    He discovered that silver chloride is more sensitive than silver nitrate and thus, more capable of
    recording and producing images.

    JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE (1816)


    In 1816, near Chalon sur saone, france, he experimented by combining photosensitive materials
    with Lithography to facilitate his endeavor in printmaking.
    -By 1822, he claimed some success achieving he called "point de vue" (smart images made by
    the camera obscura with more than 8 hours exposure).
    -He took the world's very first photograph called " HELIOGRAPHY"

    LOUISE JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE (1838-1839)


    A parisian painter and theatre designer who continued the efforts of Niepce to perfect a
    photographic process.
    -He invented the Principle For silver plate photograph and using the Daguerre type that
    produces one of a kind picture on metal which was presented french scientific academy
    - He invented the DAGUERREO TYPE in paris.

    MATTHEW B. BRADY
    When the American Civil war broke out. he was able to preserve the scene with the use of a
    camera.

    WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1839)


    He is the father of MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY.
    -He invented the CALOTYPE , produce a negative picture on paper, the lights on the image
    were recorded as darks as lights.
    - He Presented it before the royal family of england.

    JOHN W. HERSCHEL
    -He coined the word PHOTOGRAPHY.
    -He then suggested negative and positive in the following years.
    -He pointed out images with a solution of HYPOSULFITE of SODA ( HYPO or SODIUM
    thiosufate) which he had dicovered in 1819.

    FREDERICK SCOTT ARCHER

    -He pioneered the wet colodian process which took place of collotype known as colodian type
    process.

    DANIEL BARBARO(1514-1570)

    -He is an Italian who encouraged the use of the camera obscura for artistic endeavors. also
    introduced the use of LENS in the camera.

    SIR ISAAC NEWTON(1666)

    -An english philosopher, Mathematician and physicist who discovered and proved that the
    strongest light is white light.

    -He defended his theory by allowing a whte light (sunlight) to pass through a prism thus
    refracting and diffracting the light into its component parts.

    MAXILL (1863)

    -He discovered that the different effects with this application, when colored photography was
    dicovered.

    MADDAOX (1884)

    -He succesfully introduced the plate with gelatine.

    -The roll film came and new brands of cameras with different lenses and mechanism were
    placed in the market.

    André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

    -He popularized the small cheap portrait, anyone who could afford a picture of himself or
    herself.

    NADAR

    -He took the first aerial photographs of paris from a free balloon in 1858.
    SIR WILLIAM ABNEY

    -He Discovered the use of HYDROQUINONE as a developing agent in 1880, England

    GEORGE EASTMAN (1889)

    -was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring
    the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream, He is also the founder of the buddha co.
    who introduced the use of roll film mader of celluloid materials for use by a portable camera.

    PEONGENT (1895)
    -He Discovered x-ray photography which later become the basis of RADIOGRAPH used by the
    doctors in measuring the heartbeat and see the other structure of the body.

    David Octavious Hill and Robert Adamson

    - Both Used photographic portraits in painting.

    16th century-Italian scholars used the camera as a drawing apparatus.

    -Instead of using darkroom, they used a box with a lens and place a mirror.

    17th century- CAMERA OBSCURA was built in with a convex lens.

    1800- Thomas Wedgewood and Humphey Davy Produced Photographs.

    1839- The Birthyear of modern Photography, the year when the science of photography became
    a public knowledge.

    1848- Abel Niepce de saint Victor introduced a process of negatives on glass using albumen as
    binding medium.

    1850- The year when Photography was already well developed.

    -it was used an art concerned with landscape, portraiture and architectural presentaation.

    1935- The Year when colored film, Sensitized Materials and different brands of cameras came
    in different types and model sold in the market.

    1859- In the United States one of the earliest applied Forensic Science was photography. it was
    used to demonstrate evidence in a california case. enlarged photographs of signatures were
    presented in court case involving forgery.

    1861- James Clark Maxwell research on colors.

    1864- Odelbercht firt advocated the use of photography for the identfication of criminals and the
    documentation of evidence and crime scenes.

    -Later, every major police force in ENGLAND and the United states Has "Rogues Gallery"

    1882- Alphonse Bertillon who initiated anthropometric measurements for personal identification
    was also involved in various means documentation by photography which developed into a fine
    science for criminalistics when he photographed crime scenes and formulated a technique of
    contract photography to demonstrate erasures on documents.

    1885- Gelatine emulsion prinitng paper was commercially introduced based films in 1889.

    1890- full corrected lenses were introduced.

    1902- Dr. Reis, a german scientist contributed heavily to the use of photography in forensic
    science and the world's earliest crime laboratory that serviced the academic community and the
    swiss police.

    1906- A plate was placed in the market that could reproduce all colors in equivalent shades of
    gray.

    1907- Lummiere Color Process was Introduced a panchromatic film was used but with blue
    green and red filter.

    1910- Victor Baltazard developed a method of photographic comparison of bullets and cartridge
    cases which acts as an early foundation of the field of ballistics.

    1947- Edwin H. Land introduced "Polaroid" the one step photography.

    1960- Laser was invented making possible HOLOGRAMS 3D pictures.

    1970- Colored photography has matured as an artistic medium especially in the work of levit
    and william eggleston.

    1988- Arrival of true digital cameras.

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