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Photography - a new art or yet

another scientific achievement

By Alex Sirota

http :// iosart.com /photography-art-or-science

Contents

• Part I - History of Photography

• Camera Obscura

• Reflex Mirror

• Optical Glass and Lenses

• Part II - Technology of Photography

• Light Sensitive Materials

• Daguerreotypes

• Roll Film

• Color

• Digital Photography

• Part III - Photography as Art

• Pictorialism and Impressionism

• Naturalism

• Straight Photography

• New Vision of the 20th Century

• Part IV - Photographic Techniques

• Stereoscopic Photography

• Infrared Photography

• Panoramic Photography

• Astrophotography

• Pinhole Photography

Part I

History of Photography

Photography

The word “photography” which is derived from the Greek

words for “light” and “writing”, was first used by Sir John

Herschel in 1839, the year the invention of the photographic

process was made public.

L.J.M Daguerre, "The Louvre from the Left Bank of the Seine”

daguerreotype,1839

Scientific Discoveries

• The basics of optics - Camera Obscura

• Optical glass

• Chemical developments - light sensitive materials

• Digital Photography

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Magic Lantern, 1515

Photography - a new art or yet another scientific achievement.pdf