The Camera’s Journey Through Time: A Brief History of Photography

Explore how technological inventions & social changes affected the development of photography and the tricky issues—including censorship, propaganda and the staging of images—photography had to transcend.

As a professional photographer and photography teacher, I’ve always been fascinated by the photography’s history and all of the inventions and discoveries, which led to chemical photography and eventually digital photography’s development, and with this short course I invite your to explore the evolution of photographic techniques and photography as a medium.

This course is for anyone who is interested in photography and who wants to enhance their understanding of historic photographic techniques & processes by learning about photography’s origins and how it developed throughout the ages.

In this course, I will cover some of the most important inventions and milestones in the technological history of photography:

• starting with pinhole cameras and cameras obscura;
• to the development of early chemical photographic processes, such as the Daguerreotype and Calotype;
• to the development of cameras which were available to the general public and the rise of Kodak as one of photography’s great dynasties;
• to experimental early colour photography and development of commercially-viable colour film stock;
• to introduction of rangefinder and SLR cameras;
• and finally to the development of digital photography.

And I will also touch upon how photography has been used and changed as a media from mid-19th century, through World War I and War War II, to the modern day with our smart phones and social media.

I hope you'll enjoy learning about photography's journey though time and share my passion for old cameras and the photographs created using them!

—Dominic / Attitude Creative

What Students Say About This Course:

"I have learned so much! I love photography but didn't know much about its history until now. I loved the examples and pictures with any new topic." — Edouard

"Really enjoyed this course. Very well put together and so easy to see the progress of photography through time as well as link it to other events which ultimately had an impact on its progress as well as our interaction with it. Super recommend!" — Patty

"It was very interesting and informative course. I've been into photography for years, but I didn't knew much about history and this course was perfect way to learn about it. I also have to comment on the exceptional quality of video and presentation here." — Mariya

"If you're a photography student or just curious to learn more about photography then this is a course for you. I thoroughly enjoyed this course, thank you so much for sharing such valuable information." — Anup