How long has photography been around?

13 years 6 months ago #4129 by The Original Daisy
While on a role with my questions, anyone know how long has photography been around?


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13 years 6 months ago #4132 by Yasko
The answer to this is subjective I suppose. The Chinese philosopher Mo Ti discovered the concept of the camera obscura (pinhole camera) in the 5th century B.C., but the first recorded instance of projecting pinhole camera light on something photo-sensitive to make a permanent image is attributed to scientist Sir David Brewster in 1850. My vote goes to Brewster. Technically recording the camera obscura to a permanent image would be considered the first real "photograph".

It's rumored Leonardo Da Vinci, who extensively experimented with camera obcura, also found ways of developing pinhole camera light into images. This would put the date to around the late 1400's.


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13 years 6 months ago #4134 by Steven.Powell

Yasko wrote: The answer to this is subjective I suppose. The Chinese philosopher Mo Ti discovered the concept of the camera obscura (pinhole camera) in the 5th century B.C., but the first recorded instance of projecting pinhole camera light on something photo-sensitive to make a permanent image is attributed to scientist Sir David Brewster in 1850. My vote goes to Brewster. Technically recording the camera obscura to a permanent image would be considered the first real "photograph".

It's rumored Leonardo Da Vinci, who extensively experimented with camera obcura, also found ways of developing pinhole camera light into images. This would put the date to around the late 1400's.


Great answer!


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13 years 6 months ago #4149 by The Original Daisy
Either way, from Brewster that is 161 years! Now that is a surprise. I thought it was early 1900's. Shows what I knew.

Thanks for the answer. :)


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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #193256 by johns1947
have you not seen any of the Civil War daguerotypes? ? ?

They printed on pieces of tin that had been coated with silver emusion.

They were 'wet plates'.

They were prepared on site,.. then loaded into the camera, wet,.. total dark,.. and shot,
Then removed from the camera and developed.

one at a time.

A very smelly process.
nasty, caustic and corrosive.

There are thousands of pictures of the battlefield dead.
The wet 'glass plates' came along during the war.
Photography was a WORKING occupation before the Civil War (1861)
The war gave rise to hundreds of roving photographers doing independent chronicles.
The birth of the 'half tone' was also in that era. (the 'dare' here, is to find out what a half tone is)
There's a complete education here, if you want to follow the birth of a technology.

for more information, try wiki


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