Relevant Photographic Timelines.

Timelines:
Number 1: Significant events within photography.

1839: Louis Daguerre produces the first silver based photographic image know as the Daguerreotype.
1841: William Henry Fox-Talbot produces the first Calotype print [Calotype uses a negative like we still use today]
1849: Leica founded by Ernst Leitz starts producing lenses.
1888: Kodak is founded by George Eastman
1933: Henri Cartier-Bresson [the decisive moment]
1949: Magnum Photography
1985: Digital/Anologue Photography Collision
2009 and beyond.

Number 2: My Photographic Journey so far.

2000: First Camera purchased [2.0 megapixel Kodak easyshare] and began to take photographs.
2001-2003: Photographed friends and relatives, photographed skateboarding as this was my main interest at the time.
2004: Sold camera and upgraded to Kodak Z740 with large optical zoom and began to photograph bird and animals.
2006:Finished A-Levels and went to study photography at Stratford-Upon-Avon College
2007: Began to do a variety of unpaid freelance work to gain experience, obtained job with press pass to photograph Royal Show in Stoneleigh and HRH the Prince of Wales.
2008: Enrolled to study BA(hons) Photography at Southampton Solent University
2008: Left Solent University after 10 weeks to transfer to Solihull College, Birmingham only to leave after 4 weeks.
2009:Enrolled for Fda Action Photography at Truro College:
2009 onwards: my journey continues.



Timeline 3: Henri Cartier-Bresson.
1920: Cartier Bresson began to take photographs after progressing on from painting.
1928-1929: Bresson Attended Cambridge University to Study English
1930: joined army for mandatory service carrying rifle on one arm and camera on the other
1931: Bresson leave army and continues to take photographs
1935:Travels to the US to exhibit his work in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York
1937:Bressons photojournalism work begins to get published after covering the coronation of King George VI
1939: World War 2 breaks out and Bresson is captured during the battle of france in 1940
1943: Bresson digs up his Leica Camera which he buried on some farmland at the start of the war.
1947: Bresson and 4 other photographers found Magnum Photography
1952: Cartier-Bressons book gets published
1952-1970: Continued Photojournalism work
1970: Bresson retires from photography
2004: Henri Cartier-Bresson dies on August 3rd leaving behind a vast legacy.