History of Modern Photography (Modernism)

Looking back how photography use to be, its really amazing how it has evolved from simple pinhole camera to the most advanced digital cameras. Beginning with the pinhole camera, which was developed in 1600s and then in 1850 to successful digital age which is now. In earlier days, photographic equipment use to be very heavy. They had to carry these big giant lightings everywhere. Thus, the biggest limitation in earlier days was lightings. Until when the incandescent bulb was invented which was during 1880s, it made indoor photography more easy and quick. On the invention of flash effect (using powdered magnesium in a vacuum tube) serious portrait photography was possible. Similarly, it was again replaced by flexible films which enable to print hundred of photos. Robert Eastman, is the first creator and entrepreneur to develop and sell these new films cameras in mass scale.

Again, during 1930s the introduction of Kodachrome color processing was available to many. Through the 1940s and 1950s, most of photo processing use to take place only in labs which would take about four days. But later in the late 1940s, other invention was done by Edwin Land a Chemist. His extensive research resulted in the development of Polaroid Process. It was unsurprisingly a success. This made it possible to take picture anytime and anywhere. Later during mid 80s, Japanese company named Fuji made a huge success by inventing 'disposable' camera. It was very easy to use. All we have to do was bought a camera, loaded the film, taken photos, handed the film to studio and get our negatives and pictures back within 24 hours.

But the popularity of film camera was slowly going down in early 1988, when Fuji introduced the first digital camera. As we know, the difference between this camera and the traditional film camera was it can instantly display photos taken, which allow us to review or delete or print them at once. Since then we have introduced to many varities of digital cameras. So, the photography era have been generally replaced everytime.

References:-

http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/the-modern-movement-of-photography-1080642.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/214493.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography