Timeline of Photography, Film, and Cameras

The art, process, or job of producing a permanent image by the action of radiant energy and light on a sensitive surface ( such as film). A forever changing form in the eyes of everyone; by taking a closer look at this art, process, and job, I will be going back centuries, researching the men who paved the road for the photography we all know in today’s society, and what process’s they may have explored in doing so, in order to find out if the firsts methods were really an essential part of this field.

The first real documentation on photography dates back to a man by the name of Joseph Niepce, in 1814. Niepce discovered what was known as “Camera Obsucra,”a soon to be common form of photography in that time. Camera Obscura is Latin for darkened chamber room, for it was the process of using a device that had a room with a hole in one side. The hole, also known as a pinhole, was used to project an external scene through it and onto a surface inside the room or “box,” the smaller the pinhole the sharper the image. Once the re-image was projected onto the surface the artist or “photographer” could then trace the image with key precision, thus reproducing the image with amazing accuracy. Most often when using the Camera Obscura method, the image is projected at a rotated 180 degrees, but in the 1800’s, mirrors were positioned and repositioned to project the image right-side up. Although Niepce managed to capture a photographic image, it required over eight hours of light to expose the photograph and faded quickly afterwards. Not much time passed after this sensation hit that another one was on its way.

Twenty-three years later, in the year 1837, a man by the name of Louis Daguerre created what is famously known as the “Daguerreot...

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