Post on 24-Dec-2015
PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIETY
Jessica Seth
PINHOLE CAMERAA pinhole camera is a camera without a
lens. It is made out of a light-proof box,
usually black with one small hole on one
side of the box. On the opposite side of
the hole, you place photograph paper
where an image can be projected on.
Light passes through the hole and enters
the box and projects an image of the
scene on the photograph paper on the
opposite side on of the box.
JOSEPH NIEPCEJoseph Niepce, the world’s first photographer
produced the first permanent image in 1816
with an 8 hour exposure on a pewter plate after
research and experimentation. In 1829 Joseph
Niepce and Louis Daguerre established a
partnership to improve Niepce’s heliographic
process. Little development took place before
Niepce’s death in 1833 making him 68 years of
age when he died.
LOUIS DAGUERRE
Louis Daguerre was a French artist and physicist, but he
was well known for his contributions of photography. He
made used of the camera obscura to develop the
“Diorama”. His interest in the concept of heliography
led him to the partnership with Joseph
Niepce. After the death of Niepce, Daguerre found
out that mercury vapor would develop a latent image on
a silvered plate that had been treated with iodine vapor.
The image
could be fixed with a salt solution.
WILLIAM HENRY FOX-TALBOT
William Henry Fox-Talbot was born in 1800. He introduced
the negative-positive process. His photographic career
started with the use of the camera obscura for sketching. In
1834 he began producing fixed images on paper (negatives).
The calotupe was patented in 1841 and allowed the
production of
many positive prints from one negative print. His
work is the basis of the photography as we know
it today.
RICHARD LEACH MADDOX
Richard leach Maddox was famous by his
development of the modern gelatin-silver halide
emulsion in 1871. Maddox used the wet collodian
process but suffered from the fumes of
the chemicals, which led to the development of a
gelatin emulsion with its advantages. Although
he was
credited as the inventor, he was only one of the
many working in the field of emulsion
technology.
GEORGE EASTMAN
George Eastman was the founder of the Kodak
organization. He had an interest in photography but was
not satisfied with the amount of equipment needed to make
an image. He developed an Emulsion coating machine for
dry
plates and went into commercial production. In 1888 the
number
1 Kodak camera preloaded with film went on the market. In
1900
the brownie camera made photography within the reach of
everyone. Eastman’s Kodak company continued to develop
in all
fields of photographic endeavor with an extensive backing
in all
scientific and technological research. Eastman died in
1932.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Digital photography uses a variety of electronic photo
detectors to capture and image focused by the lens of
the camera. The first attempt at building a digital
camera was in 1975 by Steven Sasson, who was an
engineer at Eastman Kodak. The first digital camera
that recorded images as a computerized file was the
‘Fuji DS-1P’. Digital photographs can now be
displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted,
and archived using digital and computer techniques,
without having to do chemical processing.