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The world of photography started at the very beginning of the 19th century. Mostly over a period of one hundred years, from the eighteen hundreds to the nineteen hundreds, is when the first cameras and processes were invented. Before anything involving photography was invented, the first invention was photosensitive paper in 1727 that would later on, in 1827 produce black and white photos. Although, before that image was created, the Camera Lucida was invented in 1807 by William Hyde Wollaston. In 1827 Joseph Nicephore Niepce produced that first image, even if it didn’t last long, using a heliograph. In 1829 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre joined a partnership with Joeseph Nicephore Niepce and through that in 1837 a process called the Daguerreotype was invented to develop photos. A few years later in 1839 it was William Talbot who stumbled upon what he called “little boxes” and a method of photogenic drawing. In the same year a new process was introduced by Fox Talbot called the Calotype process. In 1840 the first patented photographic called the Daguerreotype camera was invented by Alexander Wolcott.
As the inventions kept coming, there were those who actually used the cameras and process for a specific purpose. For example, Matthew B. Brady who was a civil war photographer in the mid eighteen hundreds. Another camera that was newly invented was the pinhole camera in 1850. Another early photographer was Roger Fenton who traveled abroad to photograph war around 1852. George Eastman was a hard worker that discovered his love for photography and in 1880 invented a dry plate formula and machine to encourage the process, as well as producing the first Kodak brand name camera in 1888. Edward Steichen was one of the first fashion photographers during the time period during the late eighteen hundreds into the early nineteen hundreds. As the time period went on, more new and better cameras with better lenses were to be invented, including the 35 millimeter which was invented in 1912 by Oskar Barnack. The complex world of photography had started early in the eighteen hundreds which is evident by looking at the evolution of the camera, and processes.