1900 Kodak produces Brownie camera 1904 Autochrome, first colour process (Olive Edis) Lafayette Studios Bassano Studios Elliot & Fry Emil Hoppé Alice Hughes Lallie Charles

1924 First Leica camera manufactured 1925 The electronic flashbulb invented Edward Steichen Man Ray Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Rodchenko Horst P. Horst Lafayette studio

1936 Bill Brandt publishes English at Home John Heartfield Dorothy Wilding Dorothea Lange Madame Yevonde August Sander Walker Evans

1941 Kodacolor negative film 1947 Magnum photos founded 1948 Polaroid Land camera launched Weegee Henri Cartier-Bresson Robert Capa Bill Brandt Angus McBean Cecil Beaton Lee Miller W. Eugene Smith

1952 Henri Cartier-Bresson publishes The Decisive Moment 1952 Aperture founded Robert Frank William Klein Irving Penn Bert Hardy John Deakin Norman Parkinson Yousef Karsh Berenice Abbott

1972 NPG establishes department of Film and Photography 1972 Polaroid introduces the SX-70 camera and one step instant photography 1978 Konica introduce first auto focus camera Richard Avedon Arnold Newman Mary Ellen Mark Terry O'Neill Helmut Newton

1981 Sony demonstrate first still video camera 1983 National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford (UK) founded 1989 150th anniversary of the invention of photography Martin Parr Cindy Sherman Annie Leibovitz Robert Mapplethorpe Brian Griffin

1990 Adobe Photoshop available 1993 NPG opens Permanent Photography Gallery Rineke Dijkstra Andreas Gursky Rankin Bruce Weber Jurgen Teller Nan Goldin

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