History of Photography

10th century AC. – invention of camera obscura and pinhole

5th-4th centuries BC. - Basic principles of optics and the camera

1568 – Danillo Barbaro makes drawing table from darkened box

1664-66 – Isaac Newton discovers the white light has all colors

1727 – Johann Heinrch Schulze discovered the silver nitrate

1826 – Joseph Nicephore Niepce achieves first photography

1840 – Hippolyte Bayard shoots first portre.

1859 – Panoramic camera patented.

1861 – Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer

1888 – Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera

1895 – William Roentgen discover x-ray

1900 – First mass-marketed camera – the Brownie

1927 – First modern flash bulb by General Electric

1948 - Edwind Land markets the Polaroid camera - 1973

1968 – First Earth Photograph from Moom

2006 - Andre Gurzky sold 99cent with highest price.