Facts of History of photography

I think history is important because when you go back to the world of the painters and by the way, the paintings of these poor traders from three or four hundred years ago you know the Rembrandt's and even later on up closer to us and this may be only a century-old the sergeant's and so forth they were extremely important because they did something specifically in practically all cases they captured a slice of life of what was happening.

Even the post portraits like the Mona Lisa and many of those type were trees they captured something about that where you could really tell something about this person and I think that's important for us to remember we have a historical precedent that we can if we could study what was done before then should help us on our pathway to where we're where we want to be headed and I like to say you know we inherited this profession from the painters a hundred or 200 years ago and once in a while we photographers need to stop just thinking about in a moment what have we done was that profession that we inherited.

There's nothing like understanding your craft and there's nothing to do that like understanding where you came from and how the medium you're working in came to be and how it works don't underestimate the power of learning from history now around 1553. Giovanni Battista Della Porta was known to have first used the camera obscura as a drawing aid and the camera obscura is kind of where photo graphics was born from.

We had this box it had a lens and you would focus it on an object and then you would use that to project an image onto a surface so that you could draw it out so that you could trace it and get unprecedented levels of detail the way minds work smart people and scientists they wanted to do more with that they wanted to carry that further and they had a way to project this image what if there was a way that we could preserve this image what if instead of drawing the image an image could be projected and then captured permanently now we don't know the date exactly but shortly before 1800, Thomas Wedgwood was one of the first people we know of that tried to take an image using this concept and make it permanent.

Thomas was the son of Josiah Wedgwood the notorious famous Potter and he had some success in actually capturing an image but he wasn't able to make the image latent in light so he would get an image of some kind and then when it was put out in the light, they will get destroyed because the image wasn't fixed as we do in the darkroom and this was still a significant point though.  This was a point when they were taking from the concept of the camera obscura and then combining that with the concept of making a permanent image into a surface similar to as we would with etching and engraving but using means of chemical in life and this was the beginning of something truly amazing now Wedgwood was friends with the chemist Humphry Davy and Humphrey Davysaw what he was doing and he realized the significance of this and basically said if this could be made stable if you could make this image latent and stable and light we'd be onto something huge and he was a bsolutely right and while it would be some years before that happened the significance of where they were going with this was astounding around 1827 Joseph neaps made the first permanent photograph.


 Now these first photographs were made on a polished pure plate using a petroleum derivative called bituminous Judea and they were rudimentary it was basics but we had an image that was lain a light that could be recorded in the next few years keeps partnered up with Louis Daguerre and they started working together on this process to try and refine it now in1833 neaps died and he left the work to the gear and the gear continued working on refining the process he started using some different chemical combinations and he made the image better as things went along now in 1839 Daguerre announced the finished process that he had worked out and called it the daguerreotype he took it to the Royal Academy in London and it was almost a miracle I mean that this was a big deal we have to understand that that here for all of history of photography. Now on 19th August world photography day is celebrated.


we had paintings we had drawings you know we had edgings those kinds of things and suddenly we have an instrument that will record an image it will record what we see permanently exactly as it was out there and it's important to step back I mean imagine being in the Royal Academy on that day and it was a big deal this was a major step forward this was a shifting point for history now almost immediately after this the French government bought into Garris patent and made the daguerreotype public domain and then they gave him a stipend of 6,000 francs a year for this with one exception days before all this happened.

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