what i learned about the history of photography is that Joseph Niepce made the first true photograph. it was called a heliograph. Thomas Wedgewood explored how to develop a photo using different chemicals. Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype, which was the first successful camera. Henry Fox Talbot wrote a photography book entitled "Pencil of Nature". Fedrick Scott Archer discovered the wet collodian process, which made the exposure time significantly shorter, to just a few seconds. Roger Fenton was the first photographer to actually photograoph a war, but he made the war seem like a picnic, because he was hired by the government. Mathew Brady actually took realistic was photos, but the government bought them and probably disposed of them so the public wouldn't know what the war was really like.
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| Photo of the Crimean War by Roger Fenton |
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| daguerreotype |
our project was to research one of these photographers and make a small presentation on them, and about why they were important to the history of photography.
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