A Brief History of Photography

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Written, directed, and edited by Irena Martinez, May 4, 2015

Cameras are a huge part of our everyday lifestyle, but do you know how they came to be?

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This video was created as a part of ES.333 (Production of Educational Videos) and is intended for anyone who is interested in cameras or photography.

To see some of these things in person, try some of these places*:
Camera Obscura – Children’s Museum of Maine (Portland, ME)
First Photograph – Harry-Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)

*Note: You can purchase daguerreotypes and vintage cameras like the Kodak Brownie for relatively low prices at online sources such as ebay.com.

All images and music are free source courtesy of pixabay.com and incompatech.com

Produced as part of MIT’s subject ES/CMS.333: “Production of Educational Videos,” Spring 2015

28 Comments
  1. luis martinez says

    anybody could have done a camera as it is percieved to be here. it is not a camera what she is talking about. that is something that i think always existed with mortals. its teh film that people do not talk about. the light sensitive material, paper that captures teh light. that is what the camera is. and i want to know what it is taht does that…. crystals and what other materials are doing this…..

  2. Quilt says

    Didnt even make mention of Ibn Al-Haitham, or the fact the word "camera" comes from the arabic word: "قمرة" which means "Small Hole" (the small hole used in camera obscura's)

  3. shy bound says

    but phones and digital cameras don't work the same way the brownie camera works

  4. beastbros 101 says

    Sounds like jaiden Animations

  5. Ahmed Nabeel says

    Ho took the photo of the first camera 😅😅

  6. Courtney House says

    now I know some old fact of cameras and had it has changed for a girlscouts batch

  7. rakan550 says

    Hey lady Where is ibn alhaitham , he was the on who invented the camera… by the way camera it’s an Arabic word .. you need to read more

  8. ScoobieDoobieDoob says

    So many salty Muslims haha. Joseph Nicephore Niepce invented the camera. Deal with it.

  9. calvin hempill says

    Thank you💯

  10. ALL 4 YOU says

    I absolutely love your voice and way of explanation
    Beautiful….. Thanks for this video😊😊

  11. FargoGilan says

    You are lying
    the first camera discovered "Ibn Haitham" he was Arab Muslim you are covering the truth, the word camera comes from Arabic words 'Qa-ma-ra', referring to a dark solitary room.

  12. Sally Hu says

    why deny the credit of ibn al haitham?…………

  13. Offend in every way says

    I’m on an inventions video binge. The majority of them have a lot in common.

  14. AFRACAT GAMING says

    lol XD

  15. Brody Ebel says

    I just searched it on Siri XD

  16. Uganda Knuckles says

    👍👍👍👍👍

  17. mohamed amine says

    this is fake ! why you had not talked about Alhassan Ibn-Alhaitham the real inventor of camera obscura ? You have just passed from the chinese Mosey to Leonardo Da Vinci ! I think you should check your historical information.

  18. Butts Lol says

    this video is trash there is no such a person as joseph knee ups i did my resarch and found nothing on this guy all i found was other people who actually tried to make the camera and all that this information is trash

  19. Aldo Ramirez says

    I hate idiots talking bull shit, youtube should ban this people.

  20. Ahmed Hoot says

    Camera is an Arabi word and invention bitch

  21. Rizwan Mughal says

    your history is kinda fack..

  22. Sarah Alota says

    I think camera created by a Muslim scholar Ibn Haythem because camera comes from an Arabic word Komara

  23. comic4relief says

    good point

  24. Depressed Ayrab says

    Is this a school project..?

  25. James Biswas says

    Awesome!

  26. SK Dupre says

    Well done! I'm going to use this in my high school classroom.

  27. Batmana Erm says

    beutu

  28. Frozen Tear says

    Al hasan ibn alhaythem invented camera obscura he is muslim ❤️️❤️️❤️️

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