Analog Photography Timeline

1. Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765 1833)

Niepce was a French inventor. He was the first person to

produce a photographic image, and therefore the inventor of
photography. To produce this image of a courtyard, Niepce
exposed a coated pewter plate for 8 hours.

2. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1789 1851)

Daguerre was an artist and physicist who developed the popular

photographic process, the Daguerrotype. The Daguerrotype
produced a finely detailed positive print with a shorter exposure
time, but was used with toxic chemicals, therefore less common
during his time.

3. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 1877)

Talbot was a British inventor who created the calotype process.

It involved a paper negative of an image which would then be
printed into a positive using a silver chloride coated paper and
fixed with a strong salt solution. The advantage was having many
prints being made from an original negative.

4. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 1879)

Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the most respected

photographic artists of 19th century Britain. She took many
portraits of artists and writers, using precise details in poses,
garments, light, and backgrounds.

5. Nadar (1820 1910)

Nadar (Gaspard-Flix Tournachon) was a photographer,

caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist. He invented
aerial photography from his hot air balloon using a process called
the collodian wet plate which reduced exposure times and
produced detailed prints.

6. Mathew Brady (1823 1896)

Mathew Brady was an American photographer who created

photojournalism. He created photo documentations showing the
brutality of war, especially that of the American Civil War.
7. Edward Muybridge (1830 1904)

Muybridge was an English photographer credited for creating

the first motion photos. Notable examples of his work are
Animal Locomotion and Human Locomotion. It was images such
as these that led to the development of the motion picture
camera.

8. Eugne Atget (1857 1927)

Eugene Atget was known for his photos of vieux Paris

beginning in 1888. He documented the architecture and street
scenes, and supported himself by selling his work to painters.
Though not popular during his time, his photographs became an
inspiration for many 20th century photographers.

9. Alfred Stieglitz (1864 1946)

Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art

promoter who was the first to champion photography as an art
form. He believed photography was just as powerful as painting.
Steiglitz founded Gallery 291 to show photographs alongside
paintings and published Camera Works, the first magazine of
art photography.

10. Lewis Hine (1874 1940)

Lewis Hine was a social documentary photographer who used his

camera to show inhumane living and working conditions in the
USA during the early 20th century. Many of his photographs
showed hardships of child labourers and helped change attitudes
about the topic.

11. Edward Weston (1886 1958)

Rdward Weston started out his photographic career as a

commercial photographer, but in the 1920s he began to produce
dramatic, yet simple photos of sand dunes, vegetables, and
 other common everyday sights, especially peppers. His photos
use a strong depth of field and clear focus.

12. Man Ray (1890 1976)

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) was a modernist artist, who

rediscovered cameraless photography, which he named
Rayograms. He also developed solarized images, his trademark.

13. Paul Strand (1890 1976)

Paul Strand was a student of photographer Lewis Hine. He

became an advocate of photography relying completely upon
the subject, called straight photography. He photographed a
wide variety of subjects, such as still-life, landscapes, portraits,
architecture, and abstraction.

14. Dorothea Lange (1895 1966)

Dorothea Lange took photographs during the Great Depression

in the 1930s. She documented the homeless and farmers to tell
about human suffering and determination, such as this
photograph, convincing the government to provide relief to
migrant farm families.

15. Berenice Abbott (1898 1991)

Berenice Abbott took many photos of artists and writers of the

1920s in Paris. As well, she is well known for her black and white
images of the rapidly changing New York, and produced
inventive scientific photographs.

16. Ansel Adams (1902 1984)

Ansel Adams was an environmentalist who took black and white

nature photographs, especially that of Yosemite National Park in
the US. His photos use extreme depth of field and high contrast.

17. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 2004)

Bresson was a French photographer who is considered to be the

father of photojournalism. He took many intuitive and
spontaneous photographs, and believed that what was seen in
that decisive moment was the essence of photography,
eventually founding the photo agency Magnum.
18. Eugene Smith (1918 1978)

Smith was a photojournalist who produced many photo essays

which were published in magazines. He also took many brutally
vivid photos of WWII. His final project was one in Minimata,
Japan, to document the effects of Mercury poisoning in the citys
water.

19. Diane Arbus (1923 1971)

Arbus was a fashion photographer. She has a unique style of

mimicking family photographs and depicting the outcasts of
society, such as prostitutes, the disabled, transvestites, and
midgets with compassion. Her photos use a directness of
approach with the subject looking at the viewer.

20. Gary Winogrand (1928 1984)

Winogrand took many photographs of disturbing, densely

packed moments in New York streets to document
contemporary American life in a casual, uncomposed manner.
His photos used wide-angle lenses and tilted framing.

21. Jerry Uelsmann (1934 - )

Uelsmann created many works of magical, fantasy-like photo

montages. He does this by combining at least six negatives, to
create an unrealistic scene out of real objects, such as flying
boats.

22. William Wegman (1943 - )

Wegman is an art photographer best known for creating witty

and soulful compositions involving dogs, primarily Weimaraners
in various costumes and poses.