08 Sep, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



1963 September 24th - Photograph (authorized) of Senate in session to vote on the nuclear test ban treaty, was taken by National Geographic Society photographers for the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Washington DC.

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01 Sep, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



1928 September 19th - Walt Disney introduced "Mickey Mouse" in his first animated cartoon, "Steamboat Willy."

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25 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



1966 - August Photograph taken from the moon of the earth was made from Lunar Orbiter 1, which took off August 10th. On August 14th, it became the first United States probe to achieve lunar orbit and it photographed all 9 primary Apollo landing sites. A total of 207 frames (sets) of photographs were taken and relayed back to earth on August 23rd.

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18 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



1839 – The first photograph taken in the USA was on August 19th. The photo was a “daguerreotype,” a form of image recording invented by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, of France.

1889 – First Photograph of a Meteor was made in the United States, on August 10th, taken by Harvard College observatory, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts.


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11 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



1966 – August - Photograph taken from the moon of the earth was made from Lunar Orbiter 1, which took off August 10th. On August 14th, it became the first United States probe to achieve lunar orbit and it photographed all 9 primary Apollo landing sites. A total of 207 frames (sets) of photographs were taken and relayed back to earth on August 23rd.


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04 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



1840 - August 18 - A class photograph of the Yale College class of 1810 at their 30th reunion in New Haven, CT was taken by Professor Samuel Finley Breese Morse. He made 35 daguerreotypes, each a half-inch square.

1908 - August 28 - Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup, France.



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27 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1976 - July 20th - Photographs taken on Mars were transmitted to the Viking mother ship in orbit around Mars.

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21 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



JULY 1965 – Camera multiple flashbulb device, known as flashcubes, were made by Sylvania Electric Company, and introduced July 8th, at a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Four flash bulbs were set in a single socket; a sleeve of three cubes retailed for $1.95. The cubes were presented jointly by Sylvania Electric Products Inc, and Eastman Kodak Company.


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14 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1855 - July 12th - George Eastman the inventor of the camera was born.

1965 - July 8th - Camera multiple flashbulb device, known as flashcubes, were made by Sylvania Electric Company, and introduced at a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Four flash bulbs were set in a single socket; a sleeve of three cubes retailed for $1.95; the cubes were presented jointly by Sylvania Electric Products Inc, and Eastman Kodak Company.

1976 - July 20th - Photographs taken on Mars were transmitted to the Viking mother ship in orbit around Mars.


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23 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn




FIRST ACADEMIC PROGRAM -- Which school in the US opened the first academic program in photography? In 1945-6, Ansel Adams established the first academic photography department at the California School of Fine Arts, now known as the San Francisco Art Institute. Adams also was responsible for organizing the first public exhibit of photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, and wrote several books on photography, always working to raise awareness of photography as an art form. When Adams was fourteen years old, he visited Yosemite National Park with his family. It was there that he began to take pictures with his first camera. He so loved Yosemite that he was to return there every year for the rest of his life. Adams,went on to become one of the US’s most celebrated nature photographers and environmentalists. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Right! In 1980.

Quote: “ Sometime I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
– Ansel Adams


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16 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



First High Speed series
1878
Using a series of trip wires, Eadweard Muybridge created the first high speed photo series which can be run together to give the effect of motion pictures. Muybridge is best known for his method of using multiple cameras to record motion and he also invented a device called a zoopraxiscope which was a forerunner of the modern motion picture projector

http://listverse.com/2009/01/13/top-10-incredible-early-firsts-in-photography/


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08 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1815 – June 11th – Julia Margaret Cameron was born in Calcutta, India. She taught herself photography at age 48 and began exhibiting her work one year later. Cameron was one of the first to experiment with soft focus portraits, to achieve a more expressive image. She bucked criticism of their approach from her peers, who thought she lacked understanding of sharp focus. She stuck to her guns, and today her style is emulated by many sensitive portraitists. Her subjects included Sir John Herschel, Alfred Tennyson and Charles Darwin. Julia Cameron was inducted into the International Photography Hall of fame in 1984.


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01 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1906 - June 14th - Photographer Margaret Burke-White was born.


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25 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1884 - May 4th - Photograph of a lightning flash three miles away was taken by W C Gurley of the Marietta Observatory, Marietta, OH.

1895 - May 26th - Dorthea Lange, Hoboken, NJ, started as a portrait photographer for socialites in San Francisco. The unemployed men in the streets inspired her to make documentary photographs. Her "Migrant Mother" is the most famous of her work.


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18 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



SUPERBIRD -- How to meet a newspaper deadline. Foster Marshall, then the assistant managing editor for graphics for the newspapers, remembered a similar situation where a photographer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal used a homing pigeon to fly film out of Cape Canaveral when it was shut down during the late ’50s for a suborbital manned space flight. Marshall told his editors to find a homing pigeon. Then-photo editor Don Ray asked where he could find a homing pigeon. After a spin around the Rolodex and several phone calls later, Ray was in touch with pigeon enthusiast Robert Bernard, a retired Prudential Insurance Co. employee, who lived about 11 miles west of Mayport and six miles from downtown Jacksonville. SOURCE: Florida Times-Union; Jessie-Lynne Kerr
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-05-16/story/look-back-birds-helped-get-film-back-newsroom


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12 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1884 - May 4 - Photograph of a lightning flash three miles distant was taken by W C Gurley of the Marietta Observatory, Marietta OH.

1959 - Photographs in color of the heavens (the Great Nebula in Orion; Crab Nebula; Veil Nebula in Cygnus; and the Swan) were published in the May `59 issue of National Geographic Magazine.


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05 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1884 - May 4 - Photograph of a lightning flash three miles distant was taken by W C Gurley of the Marietta Observatory, Marietta OH.

1959 - Photographs in color of the heavens (the Great Nebula in Orion; Crab Nebula; Veil Nebula in Cygnus; and the Swan) were published in the May `59 issue of National Geographic Magazine.


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28 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



April 14, 1948 Berry Bernson born in NYC. Shot many covers for Life magazine.
Berenson was a noted photographer and actress. Husband, actor and star of Alfred Hitchcock's original version of Psycho (1960), Anthony Perkins The couple raised 2 sons and remained married until Perkins' death of an AIDS-related illness in 1992. Listed on the flight manifest as Berinthia Perkins, Berenson was killed aboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, which was deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001 and was one of over 3,000 souls lost on this date. She was survived by her adult sons, artist Elvis Perkins and actor Oz Perkins.


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20 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



April 9 - Eadweard Muybridge was born in Kingston-on-the-Thames, England, in 1830. He emigrated to California in the 1850s, where he took up photography and quickly became one of the first internationally known photographers. Between 1867 and 1872 he took more than 2000 photographs, many of them views of the Yosemite Valley.
It was Eadweard Muybridge who designed a new camera that could take a picture in one-thousandth of a second. To test his improvement, he set up twenty-four cameras along a race track with trip wires to pull the shutters. With those cameras, he managed to take a series of pictures of a horse galloping, proving for the first time that all four of a horse's hooves will sometimes be off the ground at the same time.


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13 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn




1883 - April 12th - American Photographer Imogene Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon.


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07 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1895 - April 26th - Photographer Dorothea Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey.


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30 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn





The First Motion Picture

1888



http://listverse.com/2009/01/13/top-10-incredible-early-firsts-in-photography/


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23 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn




Modern 35mm Film Invented
1934



All those years after the first experiments in photography, Kodak in 1934 invented 35mm film which quickly became the most popular film type and continues to be so to this day. This film was pre-loaded into rolls with perforated edges and it made it possible to load the films into cameras in broad daylight. The film size was already in use in movie films, but it was not until Kodak made the still version in 1934 and Leica the first cameras to use it, that is moved into the world of still photography. The first 33mm still camera cost $175 (equal to around $3,000 today, 2010).



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16 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn




First Digitally Scanned Photograph
1957



Technically, this is the very first digital photograph – all these years later, digital cameras are only just beginning to have the full capabilities of film cameras. Russell Kirsch was a computer pioneer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA when he developed the system by which a camera picture could be fed into a computer.
The photo is of Kirsch’s three month old son Walden and it measured a mere 176×176 pixels. Baby Walden now works in communications for Intel.


SOURCE: Contributor: JFrater ; listverse.com



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10 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1840 - March 4th - Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson opened a Commercial Photography studio in New York City. Wolcott took his first photograph on October 7th, 1839.


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02 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



March 1885 - Motion picture film was manufactured by the Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company of Rochester, NY, which was also the first to produce, manufacture and market films in continuous strips on reels.


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23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



February


1983. The first film close-up was made, in the laboratory of Thomas Edison in East Orange, NJ. The photo is of Edison's assistant, Fred Ott, who was sneezing at the time, and is titled: "The Sneeze."

1977. The first 35mm color transparency was magnified 516 times, taken by Ernst Haas, and exhibited by Eastman Kodak Company at Grand Central Station, NYC. It was 18x60 feet and consisted of 20 panels which were spliced together and placed on an 18-foot spiral. It depicted a herd of impala grazing in Kenya.


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16 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn




1883 - The first film close-up was made, in the laboratory of Thomas Edison in East Orange, NJ. The photo is of Edison's assistant, Fred Ott, who was sneezing at the time, and is titled: "The Sneeze."

1931 – February 21st – the camera exposure meter was invented by William Nelson Goodwin, Jr. of the Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, in Newark, NJ, who obtained patent No. 1,407,147 on a thermal ammeter.


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09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1906 – February 8 – Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of the photo copier, was born in Seattle, Washington.

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03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



In February 1860, the photographer Mathew Brady (took the first of several portraits of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln went to New York City to give an anti-slavery speech at the Cooper Union. He thought a portrait might help his presidential campaign.
Brady was one of the first Americans to get into photography, and within a few years he was known as one of the best portrait photographers in the country. Brady was the first person to take a photograph of an American president when he photographed President Zachary Taylor in 1849.
The portrait was difficult to take, in part because Lincoln was so tall (6’4”). Brady usually used a head clamp to immobilize his subjects, but the clamp didn’t reach Lincoln’s head. So Lincoln had to stand absolutely still for several minutes of his own free will. The photograph worked out, though, and it was published on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, the equivalent of today’s New Yorker magazine. Lincoln later claimed the photograph and the Cooper’s Union speech had made him president.


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26 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1928 – January 17th – A patent was issued to Anatol M. Josepho for the “Photomation,” a fully-automated apparatus for developing photographic filmstrips. It is said that the inventor received $1 million for his invention, that he developed in a loft building on 125th St, New York City, and put into operation at 1659 Broadway, NYC


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20 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn

1832 – January 27 – The birthday of mathematician and writer Lewis Carroll (Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), born in Daresbury Cheshire, England, the oldest of eleven children. The former Oxford don is chiefly remembered for his fantasy novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871). A shy man afficted by a stammer, more confident with children than adults, he invented games and puzzles and also developed new techniques of portrait photography.

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12 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



1927 - Photographs taken under the sea in natural colors were made for National Geographic Magazine off the Tortugas of the Florida Keys, and were published in the January issue of the magazine. The work was carried out by Dr. William Harding Longley of Goucher College and Charles Martin, Chief of the National Geographic Society's photographic laboratory.


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06 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn




1823 – Matthew Brady was born near Lake George, New York.

1911 – Photograph from an airplane was taken by Major H.A. (“Jimmie”) Erickson on January 10th in a Curtiss biplane piloted by Charles Hamilton, over San Diego, CA.


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22 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn




December 15th, 1839 – Celestial Photograph (first ever) was a daguerreotype of the moon taken by John William Draper, professor of chemistry at New York University, New York City. He exposed the plate 20 minutes. The image was one inch in diameter.

December 18th, 1879 – Photograph taken by incandescent electric light: The first known is a portrait of Charles Batchelor, made in Menlo Park, New Jersey.


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15 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn




1901 - December 6th - Photographer Eliot Porter, famous for his pictures of birds and natural landscapes, was born in Winnetka, Illinois.
1792 – The inventor of the first calculating machine, Charles Babbage, was born in London, England. He was obsessed with the notion of mathematical accuracy in his work and surroundings. He invented and built the Difference Engine, which could perform large calculations with the turn of a crank.
1947 – The transistor was invented, leading to a revolution in digital communications and electronics.


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08 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn




1861 - December 4th - Singer and Actress Lillian Russell, the most photographed woman of her era, was born in Clinton, Iowa.
1927 – December 12th – One of the inventors of the microchip, Robert N. Noyce, was born, in Iowa.
1973 – December 29th – First comet photograph taken from space, was taken of the comet Kohoutek, by Dr. Edward George Gibson and Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Paul Carr, U.S. Marine Corps, from Skylab 3.


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02 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



1893: December 12th; the first aerial photography patent was awarded to Cornele Berrien Adams for his "photogrammetry" method, which is a photo of the same tract taken from different points to obtain a topographic effect.


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24 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



1946 - November 4th - Controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was born in Floral Park, New York.

1903 - November 3rd - Photographer Walker Evans was born in St. Louis. He started out wanting to be a writer but switched to photography, and set out to capture, in his words, "the elevated expression, the literate, authoritative and transcendent statement which a photograph allows."


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17 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



1924 - November 3rd - Photographer Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland.

1925 - November 20th - Photograph from an airplane at night was taken over Rochester NY, by Lieutenant George Goddard in cooperation with the Eastman Kodak Company, which supplied a photometer by which the intensity of light was measured. The photographs were taken from a 3,000-foot altitude and showed about 3 square miles of the city's area. A light bomb was dropped which made a flash lasting but one twentieth of a second.

1951 - November 10th The First coast-to-coast dial telephone service without the use of an operator.


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