Craven, Chapters 17 and 25:

Photography – Craven

Also, read on the IPE site the “History of Photography Overview,” found under References & Policies/Art Cart/Manuals/Photography Art Cart. (Scroll down the page to see the Overview file. You can also search History of Photography on the site, and the overview should be in the results.)

Finally, here is a great set of 12 short videos on the history of photography, detailing all the innovations in the photographic processes through time, from the George Eastman House:

Photographic Processes video series