The History Of Photography Part 2
History of Photography 1850 – 1900
1851 – Frederick Archer invents the Collodion photographic process. The Collodion process is used for making glass negatives, Ambrotypes and tintypes.
1851 – Stereoscopic photography is demonstrated at the Great exhibition in London and by 1855 has become an extremely popular form of photography.
1854 – Adolphe Disderi develops carte-de-visite photography in Paris which proves to be extremely popular and leads an massive increase in the number of photographic studios throughout Europe.
1861 – James Clerk-Maxwell demonstrates world’s first colour photo process.
1861-65 – Mathew Brady and his team extensively photograph the American civil war.
1868 – Louis Ducos du Hauron patents his numerous ideas for colour photography based on the three-color principle.
1870 – US congress sends photographers to the document the west. William Jackson and Tim O’Sullivan producing some of the most iconic images of that period.
1871 – Richard Maddox creates the Dry plate process.
1873 – Hermann Vogel discovers a process to make emulsions sensitive to the light spectrum.
1878 – Heat ripening of gelatine emulsions discovered, greatly increasing sensitivity and making very short "snapshot" exposures possible.
1878 – Commercial manufacture of Dry plates begins.
1878 – Eadweard Muybridge uses a row of cameras with trip-wires to make a high-speed photographic analysis of a galloping horse.
1880 – George Eastman sets up the Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester New York.
1887 – Celluloid film base introduced.
1888 – First Kodak Camera produced.
1889 – The Eastman Company introduces the first commercially available transparent celluloid roll film.
1889 – First Kodak Camera that used a roll of film released.
1891 – While working for Thomas Edison, William Dickson develops the "kinetoscopic" motion picture camera.
1895 – Louis and Auguste Lumière invent the cinématographe.
1898 – Kodak introduces the Folding Pocket Kodak.
1900 – Kodak releases the Brownie Box Camera.
Notable photographers of the period.
Mathew Brady – One of the best known photographers of the period. Brady and his team recorded the American Civil war.
Julia Margaret Cameron – One of the greatest portrait photographers of all time.
Roger Fenton – Crimean War photographer
William Henry Jackson – Famous American photographer who recorded the construction of the Union Pacific Railway and documented the American West.
Timothy O'Sullivan – Civil war photographer who later worked for the US government documenting the American west
Henry Peach Robinson - exponent of the 'Pictorial Photography' style which influenced photographic composition for almost half a century.
Peter Henry Emerson - leading advocate of the 'Naturalistic School' of photography.
Alfred Stieglitz - pioneer of American art photography.
John Thomson – An explorer who took ethnographical and landscape photographs of China, Cambodia, and the straits of Malacca.
George Bell – Famous Australian Photographer who created some of the most Iconic images of Colonial Australia between 1890 and 1900.
http://photo.net/history/timeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography
http://www.britannica.com/technology/photography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_photography_technology
