History of Photography Overview

This video was originally created by The George Eastman House as a 12 part series, which can be found here on YouTube. The videos were combined and condensed for educational purposes. This video is shown as part of the Photo 1 class at Hillcrest High School in Utah.

I thank The George Eastman House for the production of this video and for all they do to educate others on the history of photography.

[AleezaRizvi]

This is so interesting. The cameras we have now have had a journey of their own. It's fascinating!

[TXLorenzo]

I had the opportunity to scan a friend's historical family negatives from glass plates that had never been printed. It was a priceless moment for the family to see their ancestors for the first time

[RADGoodstatsforthecost]

All I see are a group of people really passionate about the history of photography.

[Hey_Philo]

It fascinates thinking, that how many decades who knows centuries would have been taken to click just one picture full of memories, affection(connatative)
Nowadays the meaning of clicking a photo is totally different with so much advance cam. And a person can click thousands of pics but the feel in that days must have been overwhelming

[harryschaefer]

Thank you for this excellent overview. I brought back many wonderfull memories. I used to see the "Kodak Tower from my ninth flooe dorm room in Nathanial Rochester Hall. Friends and I played around with the prototype Xerox camera at the Eastman House. (I wish I had saved the images I made.)

[elle]

I enjoyed watching this so much. History of photography is beautiful. 👏🏽

[markosterman]

An interesting spelling of Niepce. I don’t remember making this video though I’m featured throughout. Must have been drawn from other pieces I did at the museum over the years. Nice to see I live on in video. Mark Osterman.

[alexcarrillo]

YES!!! I wish more young photographers watch in where Photography got it's start instead of bragging of their gear, and do not know what is the difference of an F/Stop Opening than to a Broadway Opening. MORE MORE of these videos, LOVE 😃😃🎞📸

[thomastuorto]

Thank you for sharing this much enjoyed video. Back in the early-mid 80's I had the pleasure of developing a few rolls of B&W Kodak film & using a 3 solution process for making enlargements on a used enlarger purchased at camera store in Patterson, NJ. Fun stuff. Still have my first & only film camera & sometimes think about getting back into it for fun.

[harryschaefer]

At RIT I took a course on the History of Photogaphy taught by Beaumont Newhall. It served me well, I went on to have a 40 year career as a photographer at the NIH, working in the same building as Dr. Fauci. I started experimenting with photograph in 10th grade, a good friend at the time thought the term "fixer" was hilarious.

[jimwlouavl]

Wonderfully succinct chronology. I think it would be hard to follow for someone with no prior knowledge. It served as a perfect refresher for me.

[lionlover]

Wonderful and informative video. Thank you for uploading. 🙂

[williamthomas]

Wonderfully presented! Concise, and informative

[creature]

Thank you for putting this together. Very informative.

[erikarmayuda]

thankyou sir now I have better perspective of the camera

[b]

It wasn’t until around the 1900’s that the camera could go beyond reproducing an image and was able to capture the decisive moment. Now you were not only able to reproduce a subject’s image but were able to capture a decisive event or a decisive behavior as well. Photography was now redefined from not merely being a resemblance of an images but was now truly able to capture decisive events. An event now able to be burned into memory.

[erichstocker]

Great documentary. I do take exception to the statement that gelatin process is a historical process. Ilford, Fuji and Kodak still make film and paper. Indeed film photography is having a big comeback. As Kodak keeps raising the prices of their color and B&W film others are stepping in to continue to provide film.

[italogiardina]

The notion of the quantum window applies to the camera obscura through the wave function collapse upon observation, although it's not inverted reality, it just is reality existing as a phenomenon independent of what's out there but causally interdependent through verification.

[ARTURO-EP]

In 8th grade /1971/ I was the school student photographer. Using the Agfa and an early Brownie camera. I loved using the different chemicals and using the enlarger to create b/w images onto various paper paper textures!! Today, I use the iPhone 14 Pro Max.

I seen vacuum tube radios to everything digital!! 📹📲

[southernbiscuits]

A great video. Two things mentioned that are of great importance are how photography made people's ideas of time change and how digital photography emphasizes the differences between the mechanical process of digital photography with the analog process that requires crafting the image, man vs. the machine if you will.