The Arab physicist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1040) also invented a camera obscura as well as the first true pinhole camera. The invention of the camera has been traced back to the work of Ibn al-Haytham. While the effects of a single light passing through a pinhole had been described earlier, Ibn al-Haytham gave the first correct analysis of the camera obscura, including the first geometrical and quantitative descriptions of the phenomenon, and was the first to use a screen in a dark room so that an image from one side of a hole in the surface could be projected onto a screen on the other side. He also first understood the relationship between the focal point and the pinhole, and performed early experiments with afterimages, laying the foundations for the invention of photography in the 19th century.
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Art of 📷 Photography
Art of
Photography
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The inventors Nicéphore Niépce, Talbot, and Louis Daguerre
seem not to have known or used the word "photography", but referred to
their processes as "Heliography" (Niépce), "Photogenic
Drawing" /"Talbotype"/ "Calotype" (Talbot), and "Daguerreotype" (Daguerre)
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication.
Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. With an electronic image sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result with photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically "developed" into a visible image, either negative or positive, depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing.
Etymology
The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtós), genitive of φῶς (phōs), "light" and γραφή (graphé) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".
Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently. Hércules Florence, a French painter and inventor living in Campinas, Brazil, used the French form of the word, photographie, in private notes which a Brazilian historian believes were written in 1834.
This claim is widely reported but is not yet largely recognized
internationally. The first use of the word by Florence became widely
known after the research of Boris Kossoy in 1980.
The German newspaper Vossische Zeitung of 25 February 1839 contained an article entitled Photographie, discussing several priority claims – especially Henry Fox Talbot's – regarding Daguerre's claim of invention. The article is the earliest known occurrence of the word in public print. It was signed "J.M.", believed to have been Berlin astronomer Johann von Maedler. The astronomer John Herschel is also credited with coining the word, independent of Talbot, in 1839.
History
Precursor technologies
A camera obscura used for drawing
Photography is the result of combining several technical discoveries,
relating to seeing an image and capturing the image. The discovery of
the camera obscura ("dark chamber" in Latin) that provides an image of a scene dates back to ancient China. Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid independently described a camera obscura in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. In the 6th century CE, Byzantine mathematician Anthemius of Tralles used a type of camera obscura in his experiments.
Leonardo da Vinci
mentions natural camerae obscurae that are formed by dark caves on the
edge of a sunlit valley. A hole in the cave wall will act as a pinhole
camera and project a laterally reversed, upside down image on a piece of
paper. Renaissance
painters used the camera obscura which, in fact, gives the optical
rendering in color that dominates Western Art. It is a box with a small
hole in one side, which allows specific light rays to enter, projecting
an inverted image onto a viewing screen or paper.
The birth of photography was then concerned with inventing means to capture and keep the image produced by the camera obscura. Albertus Magnus (1193–1280) discovered silver nitrate, and Georg Fabricius (1516–1571) discovered silver chloride, and the techniques described in Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics are capable of producing primitive photographs using medieval materials.
Daniele Barbaro described a diaphragm in 1566. Wilhelm Homberg described how light darkened some chemicals (photochemical effect) in 1694. The fiction book Giphantie, published in 1760, by French author Tiphaigne de la Roche, described what can be interpreted as photography.
In June 1802, British inventor Thomas Wedgwood made the first known attempt to capture the image in a camera obscura by means of a light-sensitive substance. He used paper or white leather treated with silver nitrate.
Although he succeeded in capturing the shadows of objects placed on the surface in direct sunlight, and even made shadow copies of paintings on glass, it was reported in 1802 that "the images formed by means of a camera obscura have been found too faint to produce, in any moderate time, an effect upon the nitrate of silver." The shadow images eventually darkened all over.
Photographie
La photographie est un art visuel, qui consiste à enregistrer un sujet en image fixe, avec un ensemble de techniques, de procédés et de matériels
Par extension, le terme « photographie », ainsi que son apocope « photo », désignent aussi le phototype c'est-à-dire « tout support photographique, négatif ou positif, visible et stable, obtenu après exposition et traitement d'une couche sensible (qui s'oppose à
l'image latente), ou le fichier numérique obtenu par appareil de prise de vue numérique. Ainsi, lorsqu'une photographie en noir et blanc est doublée en couleurs, le négatif noir et blanc et le positif (ou négatif) couleurs constituent deux phototypes distincts »
La prise de photographies repose sur deux composantes essentielles.
D'une part, par la présence d'un dispositif optique permettant de
capter la lumière ambiante pour la création de l'image, d'autre part d’un support argentique ou numérique afin de fixer cette image.
Les usages de cette technique ont évolué, et sa dimension professionnelle et artistique a notamment été reconnue.
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