From the time it was commercially introduced in 1839, photography has undergone continuous technical and conceptual changes — from
the first daguerreotypes to today's digital prints.
Then in 1990, the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, organized
its first daguerreotype workshop.
Seeing
his first daguerreotype, the French painter Paul Delaroche declared, «As from today, painting is dead!»
In the late1990s, Close began experimenting with daguerreotype, creating
the first daguerreotype nudes of his friends and acquaintances in 2000.
Not exact matches
So within weeks of the
first successful ether operation, Mass General, mindful of its historic role, hired the Boston firm of Southworth & Hawes to take a series of
daguerreotypes.
Vega was the
first star to be photographed, exposed for 100 seconds with the
daguerreotype process through a 15 - inch refractor at Harvard Observatory on the night of July 16 - 17, 1850.
American astronomer William Cranch Bond and photographer John Adams Whipple produce the
first photograph of a star when they take this
daguerreotype of Vega.
In 1840, the American doctor and chemist John William Draper produced a
daguerreotype of the Moon: the
first astronomical photograph ever created in North America.
In 1850, two Americans — astronomer William Cranch Bond and photographer John Adams Whipple — produced the
first photograph of a star when they made a
daguerreotype of Vega (also known as Alpha Lyrae).
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce — The inventor of photography Louis Daguerre — Invented the popular and practical
daguerreotype process Robert Cornelius —
First selfie Henry Fox Talbot — Inventor of the photographic negative, allowing multiple prints Sir John Herschel — Coined the term «photography» Richard Leach Maddox — Invented practical gelatin dry plate negatives Eadweard Muybridge — World's first photo sequence George Eastman — Popularized roll film, created the first hand - held camera Oskar Barnack — Invented the portable Leica I Steven Sasson — Invented the first digital c
First selfie Henry Fox Talbot — Inventor of the photographic negative, allowing multiple prints Sir John Herschel — Coined the term «photography» Richard Leach Maddox — Invented practical gelatin dry plate negatives Eadweard Muybridge — World's
first photo sequence George Eastman — Popularized roll film, created the first hand - held camera Oskar Barnack — Invented the portable Leica I Steven Sasson — Invented the first digital c
first photo sequence George Eastman — Popularized roll film, created the
first hand - held camera Oskar Barnack — Invented the portable Leica I Steven Sasson — Invented the first digital c
first hand - held camera Oskar Barnack — Invented the portable Leica I Steven Sasson — Invented the
first digital c
first digital camera
He took up photography in 1843 using the
daguerreotype, and later in the mid 1850s, became one of the
first French photographers to use the calotype, a technique on paper developed in England by Fox Talbot, and introducing the principle of positive and negative.
The
first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the 19th century, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth - Century American Landscape Photography showcases some 175 works — from
daguerreotypes and stereographs to albumen prints and cyanotypes — as well as several photographers whose efforts have often gone unheralded.
The painter Paul de la Roche in 1839, perfectly expressed his shock in the «new» upon seeing the
first photograph, a
daguerreotype, by saying, «From today, painting is dead.»