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  2. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]

  3. Photography in Greece - Wikipedia

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    The History of Greek photography began with travellers from Canada and Europe to Greece. Pierre Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere (1798–1865, Canadian) and Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804–1892, French) were among the examples of persons who came to Greece and took photographs of Greece (daguerreotypes) in 1830s or 1840s.

  4. Photography - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. Art and practice of creating images by recording light For other uses, see Photography (disambiguation). Photography of Sierra Nevada Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically ...

  5. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    As more sensitive photographic materials became available, cameras began to incorporate mechanical shutter mechanisms that allowed very short and accurately timed exposures to be made. The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman , who started manufacturing paper film in 1885 before switching to celluloid in 1889.

  6. Photograph - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...

  7. A new book unearths a buried history of photography in West ...

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    Author Giulia Paoletti has pieced together forgotten stories and photographs from Senegal, dating back to the 1840s, in a vibrant reclamation of the nation’s artistic heritage.

  8. Nelly's - Wikipedia

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    Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (Greek: Έλλη Σουγιουλτζόγλου-Σεραϊδάρη; 3 November 1899 – 8 August 1998), better known as Nelly's, was a Greek female photographer whose pictures of ancient Greek temples set against sea and sky backgrounds helped shaped the visual image of Greece in the Western mind (or, in a critical reading, the West's visual image of Greece in ...

  9. Heliography - Wikipedia

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    It was invented by Nicéphore Niépce around 1822. [1] Niépce used the process to make the earliest known surviving photograph from nature, View from the Window at Le Gras (1826 or 1827), and the first realisation of photoresist [ 2 ] as means to reproduce artworks through inventions of photolithography and photogravure .