History of Photography

The history of photography Cameras through the ages.

This is a camera obscura box this was designed for drawings and entertainment. The purpose of this device was to project images using mirrors capturing light and the image through the pin hole at the front. This was one of the inventions that led to camera and photography. This camera was developed in the 18^th century.The first permanent picture was taken in 1826 with the obscura by a French inventor called Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. He names his technique "heliography," meaning sun drawing. The black-and-white exposure takes eight hours and fades significantly, but an image is still visible on the plate today.

The first colour picture and stop motion


The first colour picture was taken in 1861by James Clerk Maxwell a Scottish physicist. His photo of a multicoloured ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three-color method. Shortly after this there was the first action shot using a camera in 1878 by an English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, this stop motion was originally taken to settle the bet that when a horse runs all four of its legs comes off the ground


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