Photography | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/artworks/photography
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was the first to permanently record an image using light in 1837. His daguerreotype changed the way we consume images. Many innovations like stereographic photographs and tintypes would follow but it was George Eastman’s invention of the Kodak film camera in 1888 that made cameras widely available.
artists like Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh frequently used themselves as models
