The Development of Photography

Joseph Nicephore Niépce 1765-1833

A camera obscura belonging to Niépce

Joseph Nicephore Niépce “View from the Window at Le Gras” June/July 1826

William Henry Fox Talbot, 1800-1877

“Oriel Window, Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire” August, 1835 William Henry Fox Talbot

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

“Boulevard du Temple, Paris” 1838

David Cornelius – Self Portrait 1839

Mathew Brady

Abraham Lincoln, New York, February 27, 1860

On the Antietam Battlefield – Matthew Brady 1862

John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865

The Development of Moving Pictures

Eadweard Muybridge Horse 1878

Thomas Edison The Sneeze 1894

August & Louis Lumière First Film 1895

Georges Méliès Voyage Dans La Lune 1902

In My Merry Oldsmobile In My Merry Oldsmobile is a popular song from 1905. The film was created as an Oldsmobile advertisement in 1931, showing a car from the early 20th century. Cartoon

New Technologies

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