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"Photography" is 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. In England Fox Talbot independently invented photography. Before that and at least a 1000 years ago the Arabs were using the camera obscura.
Some people can't accept that photography is art but it's certainly become the communication tool in the 20th and 21st centuries and if you accept that art communicates something to the viewer then photography becomes art.
Ernst Haas sums it up well in this piece seen with beautiful work at www.ernst-haas.com
On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. In England Fox Talbot independently invented photography. Before that and at least a 1000 years ago the Arabs were using the camera obscura.
Some people can't accept that photography is art but it's certainly become the communication tool in the 20th and 21st centuries and if you accept that art communicates something to the viewer then photography becomes art.
Ernst Haas sums it up well in this piece seen with beautiful work at www.ernst-haas.com
