Talk:History of photography

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I like this article, but it isn't very comprehensive. It should be titled "a history of photography in the 19th century". Have there been no developments in the last 100 years?! In my opinion, it should outline the key points:

1. Conception of a light photograph
2. First true permanent photograph

   Refinement of the process used to take that

3. First true colour photograph

   Refinement of the process used to take that

4. Dawn of "moving pictures"

   The effect of this on photography

5. Advent of digital photography

   The ensuing boom in photographers

6. Advent of camera phones

   Causing the dawn of the new age of photojournalism (ie. that cover of time magazine)

I know this is a lot of points, but they really should be in the article. I'll add what I know, if anyone else can help that'd be brilliant, thanks - Jack · talk · 07:13, Monday, 19 February 2007

Sounds good. I just split this off from Photography because it was taking up too much space there. I have no particular expertise on the subject. howcheng {chat} 21:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] this should be retitled "citation needed"

Great-googly-moogly... All those tags make this entire article come off as fiction. --A Good Anon 01:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I reformatted the existing citations using citation templates and removed one citation request that had been left in after the citation was added. The two books cited seem pretty comprehensive from their descriptions on amazon.com, someone with the books should go through and see if the existing citation requests can be satisfied by the existing references, particularly the Crawford volume. We might be able to remove most or all of the citation requests in one fell swoop--HarryHenryGebel 12:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)