2. Niepce 1827
•Niepce took the first ever permanent photograph

3. Daguerre 1838
•The earliest known straight-forward photograph of
a person

4. Fox Talbot 1841
•created permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in
silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution
•created positive images by contact printing onto another
sheet of paper

5. Nadar 1858
•The first to take birds-eye view
photographs

6. James Clerk-Maxwell 1861
•The first coloured photograph, taken by
experimenting with red, green and blue screens

7. Mathew Brady 1862
•He became one of the
first photographers to use
photography to chronicle
national history

8. Muybridge 1882
•The first photographer to provide evidence that
horses never have all four hooves off the ground at
once when galloping

9. Lewis Hine 1909
•This was a part of a group of photographs of
children working in mills

10. Edward Steichen 1928
•This image appeared in Vanity
Fair’s 1928 issue
•Steichen became the chief
photographer for Vogue and Vanity
Fair

11. Albert Renger-Patzsch 1928
•One of one hundred photographs taken from a series
called ‘The world is beautiful’ with the clarity of scientific
illustrations

12. Man Ray 1929
•First rayograph – done by placing
objects on photographic paper and
exposing the shadow cast by a
distant light bulb

13. Brassai 1933
•The cover of ‘Twilight Visions: surrealism, photography and Paris
•The first photograph to be taken at night time

14. Robert Capa 1944
•Took photographs mid-battle and nearly got
shot himself whilst taking them

15. Garry Winogrand 1960
•He photographed Women in the streets of New York

16. Edgerton 1964
•This photograph was a part of a short video clip of a bullet
shooting through an apple

17. Nicholas Nixon 1975
•From the series ‘Brown Sisters’

18. Cindy Sherman 1977-80
•This was a part of the 69-photograph series,
the Complete Untitled Film Stills

19. Hiroshi Sugimoto 1978
•The first to attempt to photograph movies
•From the series ‘Theatres’

20. Sally Mann 1989
•Mann has captured a raw and real moment of
her growing children

21. Shirin Neshat 1993-97
•From the series ‘Women of Allah’
•Taken to explore notions of femininity
in relation to Islamic fundamentalism