The Developement of Photography
Photography
HUMN 303: Introduction to Humanities
Devry University Online
December 8, 2012
Introduction
The invention of photography allowed human beings to share their experiences with others around the world. Pictures allowed a permanent record of changing sites, and allowed people around the world to understand and share in changing landscapes, new discoveries, and others personal experiences to allow for better understanding. This understanding can be attributed to helping people around the world see their similarities and empathize with one another.
Events that Led to the Advancement
Before the invention of photography people had no way of visualizing things they could not see. Photography changed people’s perception of history, time and of themselves (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2008). From the time of Aristotle people knew that light rays passing through a pinhole would form an image, however they did not know how to fix it permanently. A filmless camera, or camera obscura, was used from the mid-1500’s until the 19th century as a sketching devise for artists. In the 19th century four men (Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, and John Plumbe) discovered photography’s basic principles, processes, and materials virtually simultaneously. The men were of different nationalities, and worked entirely independently of one another.
In 1826 the Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Neipce created the first permanent picture that would be called a photograph. Another Frenchman, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, developed the daguerreotype in 1839, which produced the first photograph with true clarity. At this same time the British inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot, used paper negatives to make paper pictures called the calotype. These pictures were soft and blurry and did not appeal to the masses. These men, along with Sir John Herschel, who discovered a fixing agent for paper images and therefore credited with
HUMN 303: Introduction to Humanities
Devry University Online
December 8, 2012
Introduction
The invention of photography allowed human beings to share their experiences with others around the world. Pictures allowed a permanent record of changing sites, and allowed people around the world to understand and share in changing landscapes, new discoveries, and others personal experiences to allow for better understanding. This understanding can be attributed to helping people around the world see their similarities and empathize with one another.
Events that Led to the Advancement
Before the invention of photography people had no way of visualizing things they could not see. Photography changed people’s perception of history, time and of themselves (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2008). From the time of Aristotle people knew that light rays passing through a pinhole would form an image, however they did not know how to fix it permanently. A filmless camera, or camera obscura, was used from the mid-1500’s until the 19th century as a sketching devise for artists. In the 19th century four men (Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, and John Plumbe) discovered photography’s basic principles, processes, and materials virtually simultaneously. The men were of different nationalities, and worked entirely independently of one another.
In 1826 the Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Neipce created the first permanent picture that would be called a photograph. Another Frenchman, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, developed the daguerreotype in 1839, which produced the first photograph with true clarity. At this same time the British inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot, used paper negatives to make paper pictures called the calotype. These pictures were soft and blurry and did not appeal to the masses. These men, along with Sir John Herschel, who discovered a fixing agent for paper images and therefore credited with
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