Photography

Photography is an art of creating still images.The photography's name itself comes from Greek word phos, photos-light and graphos-writing. The word photography means writing with light.  First photography was made in 1826 by french inventor his photograph were produced on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum.Although iam not sure if thats the fist photography becouse i managed to find two more photos claiming to be first.

Before photography the only ways to  graphically capture surroundings was by drawing and painting witch required a lot of time to produce compared to photography.As time passed quality of photography increased and slowly photography became accessible to more and more people not just rich people. After invention of digital cameras people started taking huge amounts of photos and at present times you probably wouldn't be able to find a person who hadn't taken a photograph.

• 5TH-4TH Centuries B.C Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
• 1664-1666 Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors .
• 1727 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
• 1837 Louis Daquerre's first daguerreotype- the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
• 1861 First colour photography 
• 1884 flexible, paper-based photographic film invented.
• 1926 First underwater colour photo 
• 1946 First photo taken from space
• 1988 The arrival of true digital cameras (Fuji  DS-1P)

Websites used: en.wikipedia.org , photo.net/history/timeline