What's a photograph?
It's a memory, an idea, an experience, a feeling, an expression. In simple words, photographs are the medium that allows us to see the world from another person's point of view. Isn't it magical, I believe photography is one of the greatest inventions of mankind. That's why it has been said; a photograph is worth a thousand words.
Every year World Photography Day is celebrated on the 19th of August to inspire all the shutterbugs to share a single photo and share their world with the world. Let's have a look at photography over the years.
It originates from the invention of the photographic process called Daguerreotype developed by Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1837. Later, on the 9th of January 1839, the Daguerrotype process has been announced by the French Academy of Sciences. And on the 19th of August, the French government purchased the patent and declared the invention as a gift "free to the world".
But Daguerrotype was not the first photographic process. In 1826, Nicéphore Niépce invented a process called heliography, which he used to create the earliest known surviving photograph from nature; View from the Window at Le Gras.
On the 19th of August 2010, World Photography day hosted its first online gallery globally. In which approximately 300 shutterbugs shared their pictures and people from more than 100 countries visited the website. This marked the first official, globally reaching World Photography Day.
Some interesting photography facts:
★ In 1861, the first durable colored photograph was taken by Thomas Sutton. It was a combination of three black and white pictures taken through red, blue, and green filters.
★ The first selfie was taken in 1839 by an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast from Philadelphia named Robert Cornelius.
★ The first digital photograph was taken in 1957, almost 20 years before Kodak invented the first digital camera.
Don't forget to share your world with the world on the coming World Photography Day.
"For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
