Timeline of photography main events

Important Dates and Events in Photography History

5th-4th centuries B.C.

Chinese and Greek philosophers described thebasic principles of optics and the camera

1664-1666

Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors

1794

First Panorama opens the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker

1814

Joseph Niepce achieves first photopgraphic image with camera obscura-however,the image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded

1837

Louis Daquerre's first daquerreotype-the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of exposure time

1840

First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera

1841

William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process-first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies

1843

First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia

1859

First panoramic camera patented- the Sutton

1884

George Eastman invents flexible, paper based photographic film

1900

First mass-marketed camera-the Brownie

1913/1914

First 35mm camera developed

1935

Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film

1948

Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera

1960

EG&G develops extreme underwater camera for U.S. Navy

1963

Polaroid introduces instant color film

1968

Photograph of the earth taken from the moon

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