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.