The History of Photography

Everything on earth has a history and photography does have a long history. I think that history would be a boring subject to most people. Thus, I select main historic event and most important creativity that gave a born to photography to tell. 
 
First of all, I’d like to explain the meaning of photography. The word was derived from the Greek words for lighting and drawing. Due to an article "A History of Photography" I read on the site lnx.phototeka.it, Sir John Herschel was the one who first used the term photography in 1839.
 
Next, there were two scientific processes that combine to make photography possible. According to Robert Leggat, the author of this article as I mentioned above, he described these two parts in details that

The first of these processes was optical. The Camera Obscura (dark room) had been in existence for at least four hundred years. There is a drawing, dated 1519, of a Camera Obscura by Leonardo da Vinci; about this same period its use as an aid to drawing was being advocated. The second process was chemical. For hundreds of years before photography was invented, people had been aware, for example, that some colors are bleached in the sun, but they had made little distinction between heat, air and light. Putting these two pieces of knowledge together proved difficult. 

Early in the 1800's, people tried the first attempt in experiments to make images on paper surfaces that had been coated with light sensitive material. The process worked, but there were still a problem, and it was stated clearly in an article "The History of Photography" in Pieces of Science, the author notes that
 

The major problem was making the captured image on the chemical coated surface permanent. This problem was finally solved with the Daguerrotype image and made a huge impact on the world when it was announced in 1839. However other difficulties remained to be solved. As the rage for Daguerrotype reigned, the discovery was being made that latent images in reverse color were revealed to be present after only short exposures. These paper negatives could then be washed, chemically treated and used to make positive paper print.

 
I hope you guys are not boring when reading the history of photography. I'd like to clarify a little bit about my topic. For me, it is very simple that photography comes down in one word: vision. Let's think about how we enjoy photographs, and I am sure that we can't hear photos by ears, taste photos by tongue, or smell photos by nose. Eyes, yes, we use our eyes to see them. In my opinion, at first and foremost, photography allows a person to show other people the world through his eyes. From his photos, we may hear sounds that he heard, taste savors that he tasted, smell scents that he smelt, and even feel moods he had at right the time he was taking those photos. Photography lets people capture and preserve movements with all senses belong to them. Photography makes people look at the world differently with a new perspective. Photography bring different ways of seeing things to us. If photography doesn't exist, we won't see things on the world as much as we do now. For many reason, I believe photography is a topic that may attract attentions from people. I am going to blog more about photography in the next 4 months, I hope you guys enjoy my blog.


Work Cited:
      
"The History of Photography." www.fi.edu. Pieces of Science Web. 30 Aug. 2012.
   
Leggat, Robert . "A History of Photography." lnx.phototeka.it A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920, Dec. 1995. Web. 30 Aug. 2012