Photography was firstly invented as a scientific experiment..

The potential for photography is to turn the ordinary into extraordinary which is shown throughout Andrew Krater and his images made in Paris (which he liked so much he went back) in 1928.

Photography shows the world of appearances and it transforms what it describes because the camera is objective, you as a human taking the picture are subjective.

Photography is about framing the image and how you perceive the photograph being taken, considering the lights and the angles as well as different shapes and what makes up what in the images.

Fixing the shadow (living in the shadows)

The camera of obscura is a black box – you need darkness to see light i.e. chamber where there is a whole which allows light to enter from the outside. However light travels in a straight direction/line(law of physics) so therefore it makes the image upside and the reason you could argue that this wasn’t the origin of photography was because you couldn’t fix it and take it with you which is why the Frenchman and English man fixed this, for so many years this was the projection of real life (camera less photograph). A simple dark room with a hole in it, shining through some light is the closet way to a box which will end up reflecting the images upside down.

In 1839, Louie and henry “started photography” however this is problematic to state that the origin of photography was in this period as the camera of obscura box was happening 1000 years before henry and Louie – Frenchman and English man was able to fix it.

Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. “Daguerreotype” also refers to an image created through this process.

Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. Paper texture effects in calotype photography limit the ability of this early process to record low contrast details and textures

However the two processes made in 1983 which are daguerreotype and calotype have many similarities but also many differences i.e., both black and white with element’s of romanticism movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century. Henry fox Robert and Louie fixed this issue on metal and made it fixed as well as glass later on as a fixed photograph to reproduce images.

Conclusion

Photography started out as a cool science experiment, but it quickly became something way deeper. It can turn the everyday into something extraordinary

What’s awesome about photography is that it shows how things look while also changing how we see them.

At its core, photography is all about framing an image and figuring out how light, angles, and shapes come together. The camera obscura is a classic example: it’s basically a simple black box that uses darkness to let in light, creating upside-down images.

Daguerre came up with the daguerreotype in the 1840s, the first method that people could actually use to take pictures, while Talbot’s calotype, introduced in 1841, used paper coated with silver iodide to create softer images which made the images fixed.