A brief history of photography Find the correct picture for each date on your worksheet.

A brief history of photography

Find the correct picture for each date on your worksheet

Answers• 1500 .The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen

(Ibn Al-Haytham).• 1600 onwards -Artists use camera obscura to create incredibly detailed paintings• 1826 – The first photograph by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.

View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826• 1838 The first photograph of a person by Louis Daguerre• 1900 -First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie made by Kodak. It was on sale until 1960s.• 1913/1914 -The first 35mm still camera developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica

Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras.• 1975-The first digital camera. Made by Kodak. Took pictures 0.1 Mpxs. Recorded the image

on a cassette.• 1990-Adobe Photoshop 1.o Launched• !994-The first digital cameras for consumers were launched, one of the first was The Apple

QuickTake. • 2000-In Japan, Sharp’s J-SH04 introduced the world’s first camera phone.• 2003 – present day. camera phones outsell cameras world wide. The rise of social networks

changes the way we photograph