History of photography, When we ponder about photography it takes us decades and centuries behind. After a century when photography became a famous phenomenon, the specializes and experts took in charge of photography in a more professional manner. Yet, in the latest periods, photography is not necessarily done by professionals to click good pictures, thanks to the digital camera that has helped to capture stills independently and that too with a specialized result. Initially, photography began in the 1820s which was the period when the first photographs were lastingly captured which was possible because of scientific developments. Scientist-Albertus Magnus and Georges Fabricius in the 13th and 16th century revealed silver chloride and silver nitrates respectively that were responsive to light. In the recent period, silver chlorate is used to make the photographic paper as it is sensitive to photons and exposes a suppressed image primarily and after photoreduction, the actual film is developed. In the year 1825, a French inventor, Nicephore Niepce, invented the foremost photograph, an image was clicked in older version of the camera, which was a long and a tough method and took around eight hours of exposure to direct sunlight, to develop into a true picture.
Later on, the silver compounds, like those invented by Magnus and Fabricus, were used by Niepce along with the experiment of Johann Heinrich Schultz, in 1972, which verified that an amalgamation of chalk and silver compounds become dark on exposure to sunlight which aided Niepce to be successful in his discovery of photography. This invention has led to successful photography which is being practiced till date. Louis Daguerre and Niepce worked together and developed the photoreduction process in the year 1883, after which Niepce died of a severe heart attack leaving the whole work on Daguerre’s shoulders who further made two main inventions in the field of photography called Daguerreotype. Similar to the daguerreotype, in 1832 a French-Brazilian painter along with the well-known inventor Hercules Florence came out with Photography, now popularly well known as Photography. This is mostly like Polaroid photos that are used nowadays. In the year 1840, Fox Talbot took a major jump and advanced photography which was further polished by an astronomer, John Hershel. Then came George Eastman who advanced Talbot’s innovation and development, George Eastman’s expansion is used in today’s chemical cameras’. Hippolyte Bayard also had a major involvement in rising photography, but due to his late declaration does not share the recognition of photography. The daguerreotype gained a lot of popularity in the whole industrial development, as the people asked photographs for themselves. Photographs became greatly well-known and most needed, but due to the restrictions of daguerreotype like these photos were hard to copy and were quite fragile, George Eastman helped it out, in 1884, by using dry gel on paper. This became a convenient and affordable method of photography.
In the year 1888, Kodak camera came in the market which was released by Eastman with the slogan “You push the button, we do the rest”. This was a major development which fascinated the whole market, and with Kodak Brownie, in 1909, just a layman could click pictures for you. Presently, the latest inventions have popularized digital photography, but now what you enjoy the most of photography, which is the honest dedication and efforts of brilliant scientists in the past.