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History of Photography

The history of photography started with advances in the field of chemistry. Some key people for photography were Joseph Niepce. In 1830, Joseph and help from Louis Dagurre where experiment with silver oxide. Fox Talbot was known for capturing image in paper (negatives). George Eastern introduces the Kodak Box Camera in 1980. This was a huge step for photography because it popularized photography and amateurs. The way to had permanent storage of an image was to use a pinhole camera.

Matthew Brady took photos of Abraham Lincoln. He was famously known for taking pictures of the civil war. Since cameras were hard to use if you subject was moving, he took pictures

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