History of Photography by Timeline

· 1900: Kodak Brownie box roll-film camera introduced.

· 1902: Alfred Stieglitz organizes "Photo Secessionist" show in New York City

· 1906: Availability of panchromatic black and white film and therefore high quality color separation color photography. J.P. Morgan finances Edward Curtis to document the traditional culture of the North American Indian.

· 1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France

· 1909: Lewis Hine hired by US National Child Labor Committee to photograph children working mills.

· 1914: Oscar Barnack, employed by German microscope manufacturer Leitz, develops camera using the modern 24x36mm frame and sprocketed 35mm movie film.

· 1917: Nippon Kogaku K.K., which will eventually become Nikon, established in Tokyo.

· 1921: Man Ray begins making photograms ("rayographs") by placing objects on photographic paper and exposing the shadow cast by a distant light bulb; Eugegrave;ne Atget, aged 64, assigned to photograph the brothels of Paris

· 1924: Leitz markets a derivative of Barnack's camera commercially as the "Leica", the first high quality 35mm camera.

· 1925: André Kertész moves from his native Hungary to Paris, where he begins an 11-year project photographing street life

· 1928: Albert Renger-Patzsch publishes The World is Beautiful, close-ups emphasizing the form of natural and man-made objects; Rollei introduces the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex producing a 6x6 cm image on rollfilm.; Karl Blossfeldt publishes Art Forms in Nature

· 1931: Development of strobe photography by Harold ("Doc") Edgerton at MIT

· 1932: Inception of Technicolor for movies, where three black and white negatives were made in the same camera under different filters; Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Edward Weston, et al, form Group f/64 dedicated to "straight photographic thought and production".; Henri Cartier-Bresson buys a Leica and begins a 60-year career photographing people; On March 14, George Eastman, aged 77, writes suicide note--"My work is done. Why wait?"--and shoots himself.

· 1933: Brassaï publishes Paris de nuit

· 1934: Fuji Photo Film founded. By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in addition to film.

· 1935: Farm Security Administration hires Roy Stryker to run a historical section. Stryker would hire Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, et al. to photograph rural hardships over the next six years. Roman Vishniac begins his project of the soon-to-be-killed-by-their-neighbors Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.

· 1936: Development of Kodachrome, the first color multi-layered color film; development of Exakta, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera

· World War II:

• Development of multi-layer color negative films
• Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans, and W. Eugene Smith cover the war for LIFE magazine

· 1947: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour start the photographer-owned Magnum picture agency

· 1948: Hasselblad in Sweden offers its first medium-format SLR for commercial sale; Pentax in Japan introduces the automatic diaphragm; Polaroid sells instant black and white film

· 1949: East German Zeiss develops the Contax S, first SLR with an unreversed image in a pentaprism viewfinder

· 1955: Edward Steichen curates Family of Man exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art

· 1959: Nikon F introduced.

· 1960: Garry Winogrand begins photographing women on the streets of New York City.

· 1963: First color instant film developed by Polaroid; Instamatic released by Kodak; first purpose-built underwater introduced, the Nikonos

· 1970: William Wegman begins photographing his Weimaraner, Man Ray.

· 1972: 110-format cameras introduced by Kodak with a 13x17mm frame

· 1973: C-41 color negative process introduced, replacing C-22

· 1975: Nicholas Nixon takes his first annual photograph of his wife and her sisters: "The Brown Sisters"; Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still camera

· 1976: First solo show of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, William Eggleston's Guide

· 1977: Cindy Sherman begins work on Untitled Film Stills, completed in 1980; Jan Groover begins exploring kitchen utensils

· 1978: Hiroshi Sugimoto begins work on seascapes.

· 1980: Elsa Dorfman begins making portraits with the 20x24" Polaroid.

· 1982: Sony demonstrates Mavica "still video" camera

· 1983: Kodak introduces disk camera, using an 8x11mm frame (the same as in the Minox spy camera)

· 1985: Minolta markets the world's first autofocus SLR system (called "Maxxum" in the US); In the American West by Richard Avedon

· 1988: Sally Mann begins publishing nude photos of her children

· 1987: The popular Canon EOS system introduced, with new all-electronic lens mount

· 1990: Adobe Photoshop released.

· 1991: Kodak DCS-100, first digital SLR, a modified Nikon F3

· 1992: Kodak introduces PhotoCD

· 1993: Founding of photo.net (this Web site), an early Internet online community; Sebastiao Salgado publishes Workers; Mary Ellen Mark publishes book documenting life in an Indian circus.

· 1995: Material World, by Peter Menzel published.

· 1997: Rob Silvers publishes Photomosaics

· 1999: Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.

· 2000: Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone

· 2001: Polaroid goes bankrupt

· 2003: Four-Thirds standard for compact digital SLRs introduced with the Olympus E-1; Canon Digital Rebel introduced for less than $1000

· 2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras

· 2005: Canon EOS 5D, first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR, with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor for $3000; Portraits by Rineke Dijkstra