Too Brief, Overly Simplified History of Photography:
*Pictorialist
*Modernist
*Post-Modernist
Simplistic History of photographic media:
Wet Plate:************************-----------------------------------------
Dry Plate: ..............**********************************---------------
Rollfilm/Cutfilm: ......................................**************************
Silicon: ...............................................................................----*******
(where: <*>=mainstream use; <->=specialist use)
Did you notice that the history of photography is not the same thing as the history of photographic equipment, any more than a discussion of the history of painting probably has little to do with red sable brushes and pre-stretched canvas?