Evolution Of Photography Research Paper

Throughout time, people have always marveled at the ability to be able to preserve a moment for all eternity whether it be scrawling it down, painting a portrait or taking photographs. Photography is a very integral part of our lives today with how it's evolving and how everyone and their mother are recording virtually anything of interest. Newer tools like iphone cameras and phone applications that allow you to edit and mess around with photos are one of the things that never would have been thought of back then. In this research paper I aim to talk about the types of cameras and technology behind them, as well as the greatest examples for each. The processes they used at their respective times, as well as how evolved we are today and all …show more content…
This made the plate sensitive to light. After the photo was taken, exposing it to mercury vapor and ordinary table salt developed the image. The creator of the daguerreotype was Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. He wanted a means he could use to capture the things that he saw in his camera obscura and by 1829 he formed a partnership with Nicephore Niepce who was working on the same issue of having something stay permanent using light and science. Daguerre only made real progress and felt comfortable enough showing of the creation in 1838. What made the Daguerreotype the prefered method among others was that despite how long it took to finish, it was a more effective and cleaner option. One of the greatest examples of a daguerreotype taken were the solar eclipse sequence taken by a Russian photographer named Berkowski who made the first photograph of a solar eclipse all the way back in 1851, another is boulevard du temple, Paris taken by Daguerre himself and this is believed to be the earliest time to show a living person in …show more content…
The calotype is chronologically the next set of photographs that came out in 1841, notably after the daguerreotype. With everything that was going on with that new form of picture taking, it was one William Henry Fox who created his own photographic process, which was the calotype. What the calotype did differently than the daguerreotype was that instead of using metal plating, it used high quality photosensitive paper. When exposed to light, the paper produced a image that could be developed and preserved by rinsing it with hyposulphite. What came from this process was actually not as sharp as something the other process would render, but there was one convenient thing about it and it was how fast you could recreate the photos that were made because of the calotypes easy creation process. The daguerreotype process only allowed you to make one image from the metal plate but the calotype process allowed you to make dozens of copies from just a single negative.This process would after some time become a staple in