Sunday, January 3, 2010

History of photography


The photography means light and grafo which is derived from the Greek word “Fos.” The word photography was made popular to the world by Sir John Herschel in 1839. In 1820 the modern photography was developed with permanent photographs.

Photography is the result art of combining several technical discoveries together. Before photography was invented a small pinhole camera was used in the 5 and 4 centuries. Later the modern photography was involved with many inventions and discoveries. The list is as follows:

B.C.E, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1040) - studied the camera obscura and pinhole camera

Albertus Magnus (1193/1206-1280) - silver nitrate

Georges Fabricius (1516-1571) - silver chloride

Daniel Barbaro - diaphragm (1568)

Wilhelm Homberg - described how light darkened (1694)

Giphantie described what can be interpreted as photography.

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