History of Photography
Photography is an art that took many years, and the efforts of many individuals to perfect. ... Photography was eerily predicted in the mid-1700’s by la Roche in his work Giphantie. ... Two different scientific process had to combine in the 1830s to make photography possible. Its suprising that photography did not come around sooner due to the fact that the two processes were around for a long time before they were put together to from photography. ... In 1833 Niepce, the inventor of photography, died. ... Herschel also coined the term photography, which means in Greek “light writing. ... In 1851, a new era in photography was introduced by Frederick Scott Archer, who introduced the Collodion process. This process was much faster than conventional methods, reducing exposure times to two or three seconds, thus opening up new horizons in photography. ... Four years later he introduced the box camera, and photography could now reach a much greater number of people. ... Other names of significance include Herman Vogel , who developed a means whereby film could become sensitive to green light, and Eadweard Muybridge who paved the way for motion picture photography. Popular in the Victorian times was stereoscopic photography , which reproduced images in three dimensions. ... Many different movements caught on to the world of photography such as, travel, motion, time, and perception. ... Photography was just a puzzle waiting to be put together.