History of photography - Daguerreotype, Camera Obscura, Light Sensitivity

history of photography

Table of Contents

Introduction
General considerations
Inventing the medium
- Antecedents
- Early experiments
  - Heliography
  - Daguerreotype
  - Photogenic drawing
- Early views of the medium’s potential
Photography’s early evolution, c. 1840–c. 1900
- The revolution of technique
  - Development of the daguerreotype
  - Development of the calotype
  - Development of stereoscopic photography
  - Development of the wet collodion process
  - Development of the dry plate
  - Photography of movement
  - Early attempts at colour
- Establishing genres
  - Portraiture
  - Photojournalism
  - Documentary photography
    - Landscape and architectural documentation
    - Social documentation
- Photography as art
  - Early developments
  - Naturalistic photography
  - Pictorialism and the Linked Ring
Perfecting the medium, c. 1900–c. 1945
- The Photo-Secession
- The New Objectivity
- Experimental approaches
- Documentary photography
- Photojournalism
- Colour photography
Photography c. 1945 to the 21st century
- Postwar developments
- Developments from the 1970s to the 1990s
- Into the 21st century: the digital age

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