How was Photography used in History? When was Photography started? Where was Photography started?

Question

When I say when, where was Photography started. When I say where as in city and country or state. I also mean when (around what time period or year).

Answer 1

Most people would say is was Daguerre who invented photography but Joseph Niépce is universally credited with producing the first successful photograph in June/July 1827 in France at his home located at 2 rue Nicéphore Niépce 71240 Saint-Loup-de Varennes. However, the first negative created using a photographic process was by Niepce in 1816, though the image was not fixed properly.
In terms of how photography was used, initially one of the motivating factors to produce a photographic process of making images was to reduce the time and cost of having a trained artisan paint your portrait. Though Niepce is responsible for the first photo, his process was not practical as exposures could last days. It was Loise Daguerre who was responsible for creating the first practical photographic process that really put photography into the hands of the everyday person and allowed a newly emerging middle class in Europe to enjoy the luxuries that only the rich could afford, having their portrait taken. Granted it wasn't really that cheap and often times the only portrait one would be granted would be for their funeral, hence the disproportionate amount of Daguereotypes in antique shops of sleeping babies(they weren't sleeping, they were dead, but it was the only way for the parents to preseve the final memory of their child)
Anyhow early photography wasn't totally engrossed with portraiture, as travel was very impractical back then, photography brought the world to the people, and for the first time people could see foreign lands and how people lived in other places. Photography was also used to bring news to the people, and one of its first wide uses of photography in the news, was on the battlefields of the American civil war.
During the early days though, photography was not considered to be an art, it wasn't until the turn of the century that you see an emerging photographic fine art field. One of the first photographers to raise the level of aesthetics in American photography is Alfred Stieglitz...anyhow thats a history of early photography in a nutshell, hope it helps

Answer 2

Im not sure where photography in general was started but I do know where 35mm photography was started. Two guys in Wetzlar, Germany, Ernst Leitz and Oscar Barnack, invented a 35mm film prototype camera. They used the 35mm film from the movie industry because it was small and it could be enlarged to fit a movie screen, thus also explaining why we have an odd size negagtive that doesn't always fit the print sizes. The camera proved to be a success and thus named the Leica from LEItz and CAmera. These cameas are still made today and were the birth of all 35mm photography. The first prototype camera was made in 1913 and the first 35mm camera was released to the public in 1925.

Answer 3

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