Lane
Search results
Refine my first picture maker
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Robert Cornelius (/ k ɔːr ˈ n iː l i ə s /; March 1, 1809 – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography.His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a very important achievement for self-portraiture.
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances ...
Eadweard Muybridge. Eadweard Muybridge ( / ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ /; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of ...
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ( French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) [1] was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. [2] Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. [3] In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to ...
BFI entry for Hitchcock's first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) Hitchcock established himself as a name director with his first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). The film concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper -style serial killer who, wearing a black cloak and carrying a black bag, is murdering young blonde women in London, and only on Tuesdays. A ...
1949 – The Contax S camera is introduced, the first 35 mm SLR camera with a pentaprism eye-level viewfinder. 1952 – Bwana Devil, a low-budget polarized 3-D film, premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest in 1953 and fades away during 1954. 1954 – Leica M Introduced.
The Lumière brothers (UK: / ˈ l uː m i ɛər /, US: / ˌ l uː m i ˈ ɛər /; French:), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which ...
The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...
The Boulevard du Temple photograph of 1838 (or possibly 1837 [1]) is one of the earliest surviving daguerreotype plates produced by Louis Daguerre. [2] Although the image seems to be of a deserted street, it is widely considered to be the first photograph to include an image of a human. [3] [4]
Frederikke Federspiel (1839–1913) is the first woman in Denmark to obtain a licence to trade in photography. 1880s. Mollie Fly (1847–1925) ran a photo studio from the 1880s to the early 1910s in Tombstone, Arizona. 1881. Geraldine Moodie (1854–1945) establishes a studio in Battleford, Saskatchewan. She was later commissioned to create ...