It was the French who can be credited with inventing the photographic process and it all began back in 1827.
That was when a man by the name of Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first actual crude picture.
However, he was not alone in his experimentation because there were other Frenchmen who were also working on the same process.
Two Other French Guys Indeed in 1829, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, a French painter with fellow friend and French man Joseph Nicephore Niepce sustained the earlier effort by the first Frenchman in improving the photographic process.
The Product of their Work Their work collaboration paved the way for the time reduction in undertsking the photographic process.
The original photo that was taken in 1827 took 8 hours to develop and these two man were able to finally take and develop a picture in 30 minutes.
Photos and Graphing Yield Photograph The term photograph was brought out in 1839.
It was coined by a scientist whose name is John Herschel by combining 2 Greek terms.
These 2 Greek words are photos and graphein which mean light and to draw respectively.
Invention of the Negative Another big event in the history of photography occurred in the early 1850s when a man by the name of William Talbot invented the method by which a photographic negative could be used to create multiple photographs.
The Pioneer Mass Production of Box Camera However, it was the advent of the first mass produced box camera produced by a man named George Eastman in 1889 that was to set the stage for the future of photography.
Aside from conceptualizing the said mass production, he also launched a practical type of film in support of his invention.