HISTORY of the ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHpdf
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The document discusses the history of photography and the camera obscura. It begins by explaining that the camera obscura was the precursor to the modern camera, consisting of darkened rooms with a small hole that projected an inverted image on the opposite wall. Over centuries, the camera obscura technique was used to view eclipses safely and help artists draw scenes. The first photograph was taken in 1825 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, exposing a view from a window for eight hours. Later, the first color photo was made by James Clerk Maxwell of a tartan ribbon, and the first photo with a human was taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre of a Paris street.
HISTORY of the ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHpdf
- 2. CAMERA OBSCURA, ancestor of the photographic camera. The Latin name means “dark chamber,” and the earliest versions, dating to antiquity, consisted of small darkened rooms with light admitted through a single tiny hole. The result was that an inverted image of the outside scene was cast on the opposite wall, which was usually whitened. For centuries the technique was used for viewing eclipses of the Sun without endangering the eyes and, by the 16th century, as an aid to drawing; the subject was posed outside and the image reflected on a piece of drawing paper for the artist to trace. CAMERA OBSCURA
- 6. An image of the New Royal Palace at Prague Castle projected onto an attic wall by a hole in the tile roofing
- 10. The first photo picture was taken in 1825 by a French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. It records a view from the window at Le Gras. The exposure had to last for eight hours, so the sun in the picture had time to move from east to west appearing to shine on both sides of the building in the picture.
- 11. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1765-1833
- 12. The first commercial camera
- 13. The first color photograph, a tartan ribbon, taken by James Clerk Maxwell
- 14. The first ever picture to have a human in it was Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, taken in 1838.
- 15. Early architectural style photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot, c. 1845.