How Did Photography Change The World

Practiced by thousands who shared no common tradition or training from the earliest days of taking photos, the first photographers were disciplined and united by no academy or guild, who considered their medium variously as a trade, a science, an art, or an entertainment, and who often were unaware of each other’s work. Exactly as it sounds photography means photo-graphing. The word photography comes from two Greek words, photo, or “light”, and graphos, or drawing and from the start of photography; the history of the aforementioned has been debated. The idea of taking pictures started some thirty-one thousand years ago when strikingly sophisticated images of bears, rhinoceroses, bison, horses and many other types of creators were

TXT- Niepce invented a system to capture images through the power of light and transfer the image onto a lithographic stone. Then later he used a piece of metal to soaked in lavender oil and into a dark room using daytime exposure. Page 9

Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos light and to draw. A scientist called Sir John F.W. Herschel, which was in 1839, first used the word. It was a method which was all about recording images by using light or radiation on a sensitive material. The first known camera was created by Alhazen also known as who lived around 100AD he invented the first pinhole camera this camera was used to capture the movement of the sun. Photography was explained to be the science and art of documenting photographs by capturing light on a light sensitive material which included film or an electronic sensor. Light could be reflected from objects which could expose a chemical or electronic material during a timed exposure which is typically used through a camera which can store the information chemically or electronically. The first photograph was take in 1827 taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce who made the first photograph

Artists and early photographers were still only capable of using the Camera Obscura as a drawing aid and looked for another way to express their ideas other than brush and pencil. They turned to science for answers. The Camera Obscura dominated the art world until the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 (see Ch. 2). Though limited in quality and exposure, photography was immediately favorable to artists because it was quicker than drawing by hand and rendered details of reality not easily observable to the naked eye. As cameras and equipment became easier to use and portable, photographers were no longer confined to the studio and just as curious about the unexplored lands as the people viewing these images were. These photos portrayed undiscovered

Created by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, the Daguerreotype was the first successful and commercially available photographic format. The Daguerreotype was mostly used for

The nineteenth century brought along great artistic styles and technology that at the time were unfathomable. We have the nineteenth century and two men to thank for bringing about photographs using two types of methods; Daguerreotypes and Calotypes. The attempts at creating convincing photos were futile and primitive at best. It was not until a Frenchman Louis Jacques Mane Daguerre and Englishman Briton William Henry Fox Talbot, pioneers of photography created Daguerreotypes and Calotypes did we have our first successful methods of photography. Daguerreotypes involved using a metal plate and chemicals in our to retrieve the image. Calotypes were created and worked similar to negatives; sensitized paper and negative images were created and exposed to light; his methods were course and not nearly as sharp as the Daguerreotypes. Photography arrived with impeccable

What was the effect of photography on painting in the nineteenth century? The photograph was developed in 1839 simultaneously in England and France by Talbot and Daguerre. That is the technique of chemically fixing of an image produced by exposure to rays of sun. William Fox Talbot was an English scholar and scientist who developed the negative and positive process. He used sensitive paper soaked in sodium hyposulphite called calotype. This became the basis for all subsequent photography. Photography joined the art-world after a long struggle. Although early photography such as Daguerreotype and Calotype appeared by the mid 19th-century, photographs only began to be displayed in art galleries and museums only in the early 20th century.

It was thought to be invented around the 13-14th centuries and allowed photographs to develop quickly. The Obscura is a dark, closed space in a box with a hole on one side of it (Collins, 19). By allowing a small amount of light to enter the box, it created a mirrored image where the surface meets the wall of the box. Moreover, it was used to capture and preserve an image created by light (Collins, 16). The process of the Camera Obscura looked very strange and scared many people in early Europe due to the process of mirroring an image. It was big, strange, and difficult to use which caused those who did use it to become very skilled in developing photos. The invention of the copper sheet allowed the development process to happen very quickly (Nye, 93). The use of the Camera Obscura impacted European history

In 1826 the first photograph was produced by Joseph Nicephore Niepce by combining the pinhole camera with exposure to a light sensitive surface (bitumen). In 1839 Louis Daguerre produced pictures called ‘daguerreotypes’ on silver plates. Later that year, William Henry Fox Talbot introduced his ‘art of photogenic drawing’. He had come across this idea when he had had a lack of success with sketching, and thought of creating something that would use light sensitive paper to make the drawings for him. He was able to produce his prints using light sensitive paper, and went on to develop the primary elements of photography which were developing, fixing and printing. With this he was able to create a negative of his photograph and then use this negative to make a number of prints of that one image, rather than just the one like with the daguerreotypes.

Photography is an art to ones eye that has been around for may years. Photos started off as paintings. In England the celebrated photographer, Roger Fenton, began is career starting off as a painter. He studied the art in France, before showing his work at the Royal Academy. Fenton is best known for his photographs of the Crimean War in 1854. Photography is an art because, it started off with paintings and drawings. When the camera came out in the year 1885, which was sever years after Fenton’s famous photos’/ drawings’ came out, all of the pictures were very fuzzy looking

EDWIN HERBERT LAND The word “photography” has been derived from two Greek words: photo, for “light” and graph, for “drawing” [1]. Some people considers photography as an art while some considers it as a science. Today, photography is the largest growing hobby in the world. The person who created a revolution in the field of photography by making it an instant process is none other than the great scientist Edwin Herbert Land.

The first photographic image was made in 1827 by a French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, who worked with Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre, a French painter, late on in his career (Photography). He called his first image “View from the Window at Gras”. Niépce’s first photographic image was a view outside of an upstairs window, which he used a camera obscura to make (Easby). The camera obscura led to the invention of photography and also to the invention of the camera. It consists of a box with a hole on one side, while light from an outside source passes through the hole and strikes the surface inside. The light is then reproduced and rotated 180 degrees and projected onto a piece of paper. When Niépce was creating this photograph, it took 8 hours to produce (Easby). Niépce used a copper plate coated in silver and pewter, a gray mixture of tin with copper and antimony. However, this led to the resolution of the image to be very grainy and hard to see (Easby). Multiple photographs of Niépce’s turned out to be black from this expose to light.

The new techniques influence and change those of the past, as one can also see the influences of the past in a new art form. This two way influence is also true for the effects of photography on painting and drawing and vise versa. While the invention of photography influenced the perspective and subjects of artists painting, painting also had an influence on photography. Similar to earlier art form, photography had to establish its value as a new art medium. Critics of photography felt that it too objective to be considered art and more suited as a science.

While we think of photography as a fairly modern invention, that is simply not true. In fact, there are documents on the underlying principle behind photography dating back to as early as the Fifth Century, B.C. The first recorded instance of a photographic image was found in 5th Century China. During that time, Chinese philosopher and scholar Mo-Ti described how light passing through a pinhole into a dark room created an inverted, full color image on the opposite wall. Mo-Ti the room he used to produce this

Photography captured the attention of many artists since its inception. Besides the main function of creating images, it excites our imagination, evokes memories, and causes various emotions. Photographs help to develop the ability of perceiving and understanding the suffering of others which is significant in the social life of all people; in addition, among different genres of photography, the one that is used to record specific moments of historical events is one of the most significant for our kind.