History of Photography dates back to the early 1800s when the image lovers worked their brains to invent a medium through which real life objects can be captured on a piece of paper.
The first recorded permanent photograph was an image by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce produced in 1826 on a polished pewter plate applied with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea.
The history of photography says that captured with a camera, the image required eight long hours of exposure in bright sunshine. Bitumen is a derivative that hardens with exposure to light. The viscous material was then to be washed away and the metal plate polished, delivering a negative image which could then may be coated with ink and impressed upon paper. Following that complex procedure a print is produced. Niépce then in conjunction with Louis Daguerre began an experimentation with silver compounds based on a Johann Heinrich Schultz discovery in 1724. Johann Heinrich Schultz had earlier proved by experimentation that a mixture of silver and chalk darkens being exposed to light.
The monochrome process continued for years after which the colored image came into effect. The history of photography took a new turn with the advent of color photography. Though in the earlier stage the color images faded very fast.
