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Photography Finds Its Voice After the invention of the daguerreotype and calotype in the early 1800s, photography quickly became more than a technical curiosity. By the mid-19th century, it was shaping science, society, and art. Photographers began to document city life, distant lands, and even war. For the first time, people could see places and…
The Birth of an Idea. Long before the word photography was coined, people discovered that light could project an image. Ancient philosophers like Aristotle described how light passing through a small hole into a dark space created an upside-down image on the opposite wall — this was the camera obscura, meaning “dark chamber.” Though originally…
