The Art of Photography

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“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” - Karl Lagerfeld. Photography is a beautiful thing that has evolved over the years. With the help of technology photography has came along ways from when the very first photo was produced in the 1700’s . We have found faster ways to produce a picture and the colors and format has became more appealing to the human eye. Photography has helped generations see the earlier generation for decades. We can only receive so much imagery through words until we turn to a photography that says it all. It all goes back to the old saying of “a picture says a thousand words”. The evolution of the camera and the history of photography are the true beauty in what made pictures what they are today.

The word photo in Greek means light and the word graphing means draw. The full word photography means to draw with light! Photography all started in the 1700’s by using boxes as a camera. People also started making the first camera by using darkened out rooms and used a window to bring in light . In the 1700’s medicine was not that great. People did not know a lot about the doctrine of medicine. It was common for small babies to die within the first year of their life. Some had birth defects that doctors did not know about or diseases that infected their small, and weak immune systems. Photography was expensive back in those days and only wealthy people would get their dead children photographed to remember them. In that time period the camera was very slow at gathering the information to create an image. The subject had to be very still, but for people that were dead that was not a problem.

In 1826, the first image was recorded by a man n...

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... that words can do for us. A photograph can put an image into our head that we can not receive from words. People before Nicephore and after the 1990’s photographers have impacted photography to make it what it is today.

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