History of Photography

The first pictures were taken around the beginning of the 1800s, a very long time ago. Thomas Wedgewood was the first person to make a photograph, unsuccessful, but first. Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to make a successful photograph. Niépce's associate Louis Daguerre developed the daguerreotype process, the first photographic process in 1939. Metal based daguerreotype was going to be replaced by the paper based calotype negative and salt print made by Henry Fox Talbot.  This reduced exposure time from minutes to seconds to a fraction of a second and called the collodion method. Soon amateurs could take pictures, and pictures could come in color or black and white. Advances in technology continued to make photography less work, by 1867 a dry glass plate was invented, reducing the inconvenience of the wet collodion method. Soon, cameras were able to print out a picture instantly out of the camera, and eventually evolved into digital cameras, where you could transfer, print, and edit pictures easily.