What does the word photography mean?

Name the art or practice of taking and processing photographs. To understand the definition of photography, it's important to break down the word itself. The Greek meaning of “photo” is translated as “light”, while “graphic” is translated as “drawing”. Simply put, photography is the process of capturing light to create an image.

This is done through the use of a camera, either cinematographic or digital. The practice of capturing light to create images is used for a variety of purposes. Photography is the art of capturing and processing light using a sensor or film. But the essence of photography is to treasure moments and share them with the world.

Very simple, but the action itself is capable of changing people's perceptions. The photographic documentation of such an ephemeral and conceptually based practice was generally not considered art; however, over time, it has acquired the status of an art object, where it is now collected and shown as such. Even after color film became available, black and white photography continued to dominate for decades, due to its lower cost, chemical stability and classic photographic appearance. Dual photography involves photographing a scene from both sides of a photographic device at a time (for example, George Eastman, founder of Kodak, marketed the first flexible photo roll in 1885), but this original film was actually a layer on a paper base.

Hurter and Driffield began pioneering work on the light sensitivity of photographic emulsions in 1876. However, many art photographers continue to use traditional methodologies to produce and develop their photographs and some employ strategies from previous forms of practice, such as pictorialism and painting photography, in the production of their photographic work. The camera is the image forming device, and the capture medium is a photographic plate, a photographic film, or a silicon electronic image sensor. The implementation of color photography was hampered by the limited sensitivity of early photographic materials, which were mostly blue sensitive, only slightly sensitive to green, and virtually insensitive to red. Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating lasting images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically using a light-sensitive material, such as a photographic film, or electronically using an image sensor.

That same year, American photographer Robert Cornelius was credited with the oldest surviving photographic self-portrait. A movie camera is a type of camera that takes a quick sequence of photographs on a recording medium. A wide variety of photographic techniques and media are used in the process of capturing images for photography. Frames are images produced by the shadows of objects projected onto photographic paper, without the use of a camera.

The German newspaper Vossische Zeitung of February 25, 1839, contained an article entitled Photographie, in which several priority statements were discussed, especially those of Henry Fox Talbot, in relation to Daguerre's claim of invention. The result of a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is subsequently chemically converted into a visible, negative or positive image, depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the processing method. The result with the photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is subsequently chemically converted into a visible, negative or positive image, depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the processing method.


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John Pfannenstiel
John Pfannenstiel

Born in South Africa, John fell in love on his 14th birthday when his parents presented him with his first camera. After photographing insects, lizards, and snakes in his own backyard, John felt he had found his calling in life, and a career in photography beckoned. John set up his first photography business when he was 23 and has since traveled the world and worked with many famous photographers.