Works Cited:
"History of photography and film." eSSORTMENT. 2002. Pagewise. 23 Oct 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
History of Photography and Film
Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, photography didn't start as it is now? I'm just kidding, if you seriously thought that photography hasn't evolved just like everything else then you ... umm...ya... nevermind. Anyways, my parousal of the Internet has led me to an article that tells about just that, the evolution of photography. This article was written to tell about the emergence of film and photography in our culture. “Photographic imaging”, a fancy-shmancy way of saying photography began a long, long time ago. The Camera Obscura was a box that allowed light to enter and create images. When photographers placed silver coated glass plates into those boxes, the chemical reaction, blah, blah, blah… You get the idea. Photography was born! This “camera” took a long time to set up, take the picture, develop the picture and what not; they were also taking pretty bad pictures, “crude” as the article says. So many photographers in later generations decided to find a way to simplify the process. Machines came out that developed pictures faster. The bulky “cameras” became smaller and easier to manage. Also, the camera came out of the studios and into the hands of the public. This is possibly one of the greatest public technological releases ever. World War II saw an evolution of cameras to a more similar model to today’s. The single lens reflex allowed for better focus and greater range of distance. Finally, we had the instant camera. Released to the people in the 1960’s by Polaroid. This was believed to be “idiot proof”. It had everything from the “permanent electronic flash” to an “automatically controlled shutter speed” along with better focus and lighting. This new realm of photography got its time to shine during the Vietnam War. The popularity that it experienced was so great that every home owned at least one camera. Cameras now a days come in all sorts of varieties, and which the computer, printer, and Internet, we are now able to share photography like its original pioneers would never have imagined. As the article says, “Photography has come out of the darkroom and onto the CD Rom” (3).
Works Cited:
"History of photography and film." eSSORTMENT. 2002. Pagewise. 23 Oct 2008.
Works Cited:
"History of photography and film." eSSORTMENT. 2002. Pagewise. 23 Oct 2008
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Good post Chris. I enjoyed the information you put forth about the beginning of the camera. The camera and specifically film has come a long way. I did know that camera evolved. Keep up the good work.
This is an interesting article. It's just another example of how technology is constantly trying to improve upon itself. I like how the article mentions cameras from different time periods, especially cameras, like the camera obscura, that are relatively unknown(or should I say, "obscure").
Its hard to believe that people didn't just point and click like we do now. There was all that setting up and then developing where as now we can have a picture in a minute if we wanted to. I think with the change of cameras also came the change of the perspective of photography as an art. Nowadays photography is more of an art because we have the time to think of how we're taking the picture, while back then they just hoped it came out.
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