When was Digital Photography invented – Invention of Photography 5,29 min video created by George Eastman House. Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the digital camera in 1975. Within 25 years the technology would overtake analog film materials and dominate the…
Color Photography – When was Color Photography Invented – Invention of Photography 6,00 min video created by George Eastman House. Photography’s earliest practitioners dreamed of finding a method for reproducing the world around them in color. Some 19th century photographers…
Gelatin Silver Process and Gelatin Silver Prints – Invention of Photography 7,32 min video created by George Eastman House. The gelatin silver process was introduced at the end of the nineteenth century and dominated black-and-white photography in the twentieth century.…
Carbon Prints and Gum Bichromate Prints – The Pigment Processes – Invention of Photography 5.44 min video created by George Eastman House. Carbon prints and gum bichromate prints are both examples of pigment processes. Rather than the metal salts typically…
Platinum Print – The Invention of Photography 3.39 min video created by George Eastman House. Platinum prints are characterized by their delicate surface and subtle tonal gradations. They are made by sensitizing paper with iron salts and exposing the paper…
Invention of Albumen Print in 4.34 min video created by George Eastman House. The albumen silver print, invented in 1850, was the most popular photographic printing process of the 19th century. To make albumen silver prints, a sheet of paper…
Invention of Collodion Process in 5.32 min video created by George Eastman House. Introduced in 1851, by Frederick Scott Archer, the wet collodion process was a fairly simple, if somewhat cumbersome photographic process. A 2% solution of collodion, bearing a…
Invention of Cyanotype Photography in 4.21 min video created by George Eastman House. Sir John Herschel invented the cyanotype in 1842. The process depends on the photochemical reduction of ferric salts into ferrous salts leading to the formation of Prussian…
The Talbot’s Processes explained in 6.36 min video created by George Eastman House. Working in England, at the same time as Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot is best known for the invention of the negative/positive photographic process that became the…
The Daguerreotype process explained in 6.18 min video created by George Eastman House. The first commercially successful photographic process was announced in 1839, the result of over a decade of experimentation by Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce. Unfortunately, Niépce died…