My blog entitled “Where the Photography Came
From” is about a little background where photography came from and who are the
inventor behind it. When we like a passion like photography, we need to know
the history of it, the inventor who invent it and other information that we did not
know yet. As a photography lover, I want to share the information I get from
the internet, however I already summary it to make it easy to your part.
History about Photography
Each of us wants to know where the photography
came from. And according to my research, photography came from the Greek word
phos, photos - light and graphos - writing. The word photography
means writing with light but most photographers claim they are painting with
light. This 'writing with light' or as us photographers say ' painting with
light' was first reputed to have been termed by Sir John Herschel to William
Henry Fox Talbot in letter in 1839.
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Sir John Herschel was
an English astronomer who also devised the words negative and positive and I
believe the word snapshot. A lot of his work involved chemistry which was the
forerunner of the black and white processes.
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William Henry Fox Talbot was the inventor of the
negative positive process of photography. He was an English gentleman, chemist,
mathematician, linguist and archeologist.
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Robert Cornelius (1809–1893) was an American pioneer of photography.
"The first light picture ever taken." |
The First Photograph
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On a summer day in
1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura.
Prior to Niepce people just used the camera
obscura for viewing or drawing
purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce’s heliographs or
sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by
letting light draw the picture.
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Niepce placed an engraving onto a metal plate
coated in bitumen, and then exposed it to light. The shadowy areas of the
engraving blocked light, but the whiter areas permitted light to react with the
chemicals on the plate. When Niepce placed the metal plate in a solvent,
gradually an image, until then invisible, appeared. However, Niepce's photograph
required eight hours of light exposure to create and after appearing would soon
fade away.
The First Camera ever made
Louis Daguerre, a
French man was the
inventor of the first practical process of photography. In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph
Nicephore Niepce to improve the process Niepce had developed.
In 1839 after several years of experimentation
and Niepce's death, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method
of photography, naming it after himself – the
daguerreotype, the first camera ever made. Since then, the birth of
modern photography happened.
Boulevard du
Temple by Daguerre
"Boulevard du Temple", taken by Louise
Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839, was the first-ever
photograph of people. It is an image of a busy street, but because exposure
time was over ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too much to appear. The
exceptions are the two people in the bottom left corner, one who stood still
getting his boots polished by the other long enough to show up in the picture.
These
are some of the First camera made in the past:
These are some
of the LATEST and POPULAR camera:
