FOTOGRAPHY HISTORY: Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light, or...
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FOTOGRAPHY HISTORY: Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material. On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. 1. OUR PHOTOS BEGINS SINCE: 1. ancient times: Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole 2. 16th century: Brightness and clarity of camera obscuras
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