The First 50 years

 I feel we must talk about Photography as a whole and its first 50 years. Photography came a long way in the first 50 year, it would not be were it is today if it were not for this time.

I believe that the 50 were so important because of how many first took place.

• 1827 First picture: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce uses a camera obscura to burn a permanent image of the countryside of his estate onto a chemical-coated pewter plate.

• 1839 First picture of people: Louis Daguerre photographs a Paris street scene from his apartment window using a camera obscura

• 1847 First picture of lightning: Thomas Easterly makes a daguerreotype of a bolt of lightning

• 1847 First pictures of war: Charles J. Betts uses Daguerretype to take photos of the Mexican-American War

• 1858 First Birds eye veiw: Felix Tournachon captured an aerial photograph in a tethered balloon over Paris

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• 1861 First color photo: A scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell creates a rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images that each passed through three filters red, green, and blue

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• 1878 First action photo: Eadweard Muybridge, used a emulsions that allowed nearly instantaneous photography to begin taking photograph sequences that capture animals and humans in motion



Sources

 http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photography-timeline.html