Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1826 Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s

upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.

1st Color Photograph

•James Clerk Maxwell•1861•Maxwell created the image of the tartan ribbon shown here by photographing it three times through red, blue, and yellow filters, then recombining the images into one color composite.

Eadweard Muybridge1878He arranged 12 trip-wire cameras along a racetrack in the path of a galloping horse. The resulting photo sequence proved that there is a point when no hooves touch the ground and set the stage for the first motion pictures.

The debate: whether, during its gait, all four of a horse's hooves are simultaneously off the ground

1. Camera Obscura2. Joseph Nicéphore Niepce- 1st photograph3. Thomas Wedgwood4. Daguerrotype image- Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre 5. William Henry Fox Talbot- calotype 6. 1st color photography- James Clerk Maxwell7. Autochrome plate- Auguste and Louis Lumier8. 1st photograph of movement- Eadweard Muybridge9. Brownie Camera- Kodak

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