The document provides a brief history of photography from its origins to modern digital photography. It notes that the first photograph was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépé and required an 8 hour exposure using a camera obscura. The document then discusses improvements and innovations like Daguerre's daguerrotype process in 1839, Matthew Brady using wagons to photograph the Civil War, and the transition to smaller and more portable cameras in the 1920s-1930s. Finally, it mentions the shift to digital cameras and photoshop in place of film and darkroom chemicals.