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Nowadays almost all the people take photos in their mobiles for all occasions. And none of them know about the history behind the photographs. Few people think that there is nothing to know about the photographs history but it is important to know each and every part of any invention in the world, especially about the photograph. This is because photographs play an important role to remember about our past life. Now we are going to discuss about the history behind the photographs. First of all we are going discuss about the origin of photographs. Most of the people around the world do not about the word “Photochrom process” which is the method of transferring any black and white photographic negatives to chromographic and lithographic stones which was invented in the year 1880s in Switzerland by the Zürich-based printing firm Orell Füssli. After some year in 1888 the firm got a new dimension of new company, Photochrom Zürich (later renamed to Photoglob Co.), in order to handle worldwide distribution about Photochrom prints. Then later in 1897, William A. Livingstone was leaded the Detroit Photographic Company and William A. Livingstone has got exclusive rights to print and distribute Photochrom throughout the United States and then he started to hire the well experienced photographer William Henry Jackson. William Henry Jackson came to the Detroit Photographic Company with his thousands of negatives. This company continued this job of producing Photochrom prints till 1930s, because introduction of cheaper production methods of other photographic companies pushed this company of this photographs field. The important things you need to know about the Detroit Photographic Company, they used to focus more on the interesting scenic, historical and architectural views throughout the each and every edge of United States from urban area views like New York, Chicago and Washington. And then they used to concentrate about the majestic natural scenes like the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone national park, etc. and also they used to concentrate about the day to day life of each and every people in the Unites States street scenes in Native American pueblos in the southwest. Most of the photographs of Detroit were based on the negatives created by William Henry Jackson, that’s why they changed the attribution of unique portrait of the United States at the turn of the Twentieth century. Mostly people do not know about Photochroms production which is produced by a color lithographic process by thin layer of light sensitive bitumen dissolved in benzene was applied to a lithographic stone. So these above information would definitely be helpful to you in explaining this process. Want to know the tops lists on various niche’s? SmashingLists.com provides the top lists on various topics on all niches. They cover on most of the topics like art, entertainment, nature, people, animals, places, science and technology, etc. If you would like to read one of their best lists on the Ancient Historical Photographs, visit their website at http://www.smashinglists.com/top-25-most-ancient-historical-photographs/.
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