History of photography

By Shafiul Islam

Photographs have many purposes weather it being to do with art

or preserve personal memories for individuals or families eg,

taking photographs on holiday etc

They could also be used to inform the mass through the news

about events or tragedies which happen. Informing the public

and remind us about what happened.

The very first use of the word photography was by a man called

John. F.W. Herschel The word itself comes from the Greek and

translates to..

Representation by mean of lines, or drawing together by meaning

drawing with the light.

Giphante is a fictional story written by De La Roche.

In the book De La Roche talking about capturing nature images

onto canvass by using sticky substances.

It is written when left in the dark the pictures would

permanently stick onto the canvas.

However De la Roche died decades before the camera was

invented and was not aware that this fictional book would hold

any relevance in mass society.

In the Victorian era many seaside resorts had a camera obscura

which was usually set up in a small octagonal building near the

beach or on the pier. Inside, the visitor could watch a moving

color picture of the view outside

Chemical photography revolutionized the

process and sealing it through the medium of

creating permanent images.

Done in 1869, taking up to 8 hours to develop

and be exposed.

He called the method heliotography (sun

writing)

Daguerreotype, was the first publicly

announced photogrsaphic process and for

nearly twenty years was the one most

commonly used.

It was invented by Louis Daguerre and

introduced in 1839.

The calotype negative process was

sometimes called the Talbotype, after its

inventor.

It was not Talbot's first photographic process

(introduced in 1839), but it is the one for

which he became most known.

Talbot devised the calotype in the autumn of

1840, perfected it by the time of its public

introduction in mid-1841

The Civil war was one of the first wars to be

actually recorded properly through

photography.

Name of photographer: Mathew Brady

George Eastman was one of the first to

demonstrate the great convenience of

gelatin dry plates over the cumbersome and

messy wet plate photography prevalent in his

day.

Dry plates could be exposed and developed

at the photographer's convenience; wet

plates had to be coated, exposed at once,

and developed while still wet.

In 1900s Easterman took mass market

photography with the brownie.

To this day photography seems to remain a

vital part of contempary art as well still

retaining its commercial and everyday uses.