Say Cheese!
AUDIBILITIES
By Emmet Robinson
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Say Cheese!
When you think about the photos you may have accumulated – that is, actual pictures printed on paper rather than images on your smartphone – do you ever wonder how the photographic process began?
After hundreds of years of experimentation and advances in optics and chemistry, the first recognizable photograph was created by Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce in 1822. His View from the Window at Le Gras has survived all these years, and may be seen online. At that time he called his process “heliography.” The more familiar term, “photography, ” meaning “drawing with light” was coined in 1839 by British Scientist Sir John Herschel.
In 1829 Niépce formed a partnership with Louis Daguerre. When Niépce died, Daguerre continued to develop the photographic process with ideas of his own. The result was an improved image he called, appropriately enough, Daguerreotypes. Although an improvement, they were difficult to make. By 1860 daguerreotypes had been superseded by newer, less expensive processes.