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HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 1 : From Aristotle to Eastman.

1.1. Introduction

1.2. The camera obscura

1.3. The photochemical experiments

1.3.1. From Aristotle to the 18th century
1.3.2. The first photograph
1.3.3. The daguerreotype

1.3.4. The calotype

1.3.5. The collodion process

1.3.6. The ambrotype process

1.3.7. The tintype process

1.3.8. The dry-plate

1.3.9. The flexible film





CHAPTER 2 : Some important persons in the history of photography (in alphabetical order).

2.1. Robert BOYLE (1627-1691)

2.2. Jean Francois Antoine CLAUDET(1797-1867)

2.3. Louis Jacques Mandé DAGUERRE (1789-1851)

2.4. Sir Humphrey DAVY (1778-1829)

2.5. George EASTMAN (1854-1932)

2.6. Sir JOHN HERSCHEL

2.7. Dr. Richard Leach MADDOX (1816-1902)

2.8. Joseph Nicéphore NIÉPCE (1765-1833)

2.9. ABEL Niépce DE SAINT VICTOR (1805-1870)

2.10. Josef Max PETZVAL (1807-1891)

2.11. Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687-1744)

2.12. Frederic SCOTT ARCHER (1813-1857)

2.13. William Henry Fox TALBOT (1800-1877)

2.14. Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805)




CHAPTER 3 : Historical timeline