Inspiring video history of photography

Usually, we make the world around us for granted, don’t think much how we got here and enjoy the technology, arts the culture as something that’s been here forever. It’s nice, once in a while, to remember and honour the pioneers that got us where we are. It’s also a homage to human curiosity and creativity.

Enjoy this video series by George Eastman House!

PLEASE NOTE, AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO IS AVAILABLE ON OUR CHANNEL. Working in England, at the same time as Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot is best...

Introduced in 1851, by Frederick Scott Archer, the wet collodion process was a fairly simple, if somewhat cumbersome photographic process. A 2% solution of c...

PLEASE NOTE, AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO IS AVAILABLE ON OUR CHANNEL. The albumen silver print, invented in 1850, was the most popular photographic prin...

PLEASE NOTE, AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO IS AVAILABLE ON OUR CHANNEL. Platinum prints are characterized by their delicate surface and subtle tonal grada...

Carbon prints and gum bichromate prints are both examples of pigment processes. Rather than the metal salts typically used in the formation of photographic i...

Woodburytypes are distinguished from other photomechanical processes by the fact that they are continuous-tone images. The process involves exposing unpigmen...

PLEASE NOTE, AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO IS AVAILABLE ON OUR CHANNEL. The gelatin silver process was introduced at the end of the nineteenth century and...

PLEASE NOTE, AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO IS AVAILABLE ON OUR CHANNEL. Photography's earliest practitioners dreamed of finding a method for reproducing t...

PLEASE NOTE, AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS VIDEO IS AVAILABLE ON OUR CHANNEL. Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the digital camera in 1975. Within 25 years ...