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Sep 25, 2013 · Early Days in the History of Photography. Beginning around 500 BC, Chinese and Greek philosophers discovered and documented the use of optical devices. As centuries passed, and before the inception of the first camera, scientists were more concerned with ways of developing images rather than with the camera itself.
Apr 3, 2019 · Photography could now reach the masses. 1878⇢ Eadweard Muybridge successfully captured the sequence of movement. It was this ground breaking discovery and technique that helped invented motion pictues. 1884- 1924⇢ The camera went into production at the Leitz factory in Germany.
This is a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history.
1949 – The Contax S camera is introduced, the first 35 mm SLR camera with a pentaprism eye-level viewfinder. 1952 – Bwana Devil, a low-budget polarized 3-D film, premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest in 1953 and fades away during 1954. 1954 – Leica M Introduced.
May 1, 2011 · Roberta Wue is Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine. Among her publications is Picturing Hong Kong: Photography 1855-1910 (New York: Asia Society Galleries and George Braziller, 1997), with Joanna Waley-Cohen and Edwin K. Lai; and “Selling the Artist: Advertising, Art and Audience in Later Nineteenth Century Shanghai,” Art Bulletin, XCI ...
Definition. Greek theatre began in the 6th century BCE in Athens with the performance of tragedy plays at religious festivals. These, in turn, inspired the genre of Greek comedy plays. The two types of Greek drama would be hugely popular and performances spread around the Mediterranean and influenced Hellenistic and Roman theatre.
Feb 25, 2021 · By the year 31 BCE, Ancient Rome’s emergence brings an end to the Hellenistic Era. 323 BCE – Alexander the Great dies and the Ptolemaic dynasty is formed. 300 BCE – One of the most famous books in mathematics – Elements – is written by Euclid. 146 BCE – At the Battle of Corinth, Rome hands the Greeks a crushing defeat, making the ...
