Photography

What is the History of Photography?

The first successful image that ever captured was created by Joseph Nicephore Niepce using camera obscure. This took 8 hours to develop and it was only black and white. This is how the camera obscure works see this video and the first ever photograph ever taken below:-

The First photograph ever taken

This is what camera obscure looks like

Explanation more on how obscure camera works

Louis Daguerre created the first successful camera called daguerreotype camera, where it took 3 hours to develop and the people that usually took their picture at that time using daguerreotype are wealthy people and because they took time to develop, the person who were getting his or her picture need to stay still for 3 hours to prevent the picture to be blurred. Here’s the image of daguerreotype and the peoples that were taken photo by that camera:-

This is the image how the daguerreotype camera looks like

The first person image taken using daguerreotype camera

A women taken photo using daguerreotype camera

video on daguerreotype camera till the camera present today

What is photography?

Photography itself is the art of the memory where in early 1859 the American writer Olive Wendell Holmes called photography “the mirror with a memory”. Photography in a way creating nostalgia events that were happening years before we were born and by looking at the photograph we can see and feel the history behind the image either it is happiness or sadness. Photograph also can be used as witness or record of a crime events and so forth. Photograph also can influence people in a way how the image of the photograph was presented either it is for stopping war, or stop hunger which anything about solving the world’s problems. Take the image below as example:-

Image of Kampong Ayer taken by me

As you all know that this is the image of kampong Ayer surrounding in Brunei-Muara, Kampong Ayer is one of the largest water village in the world but what we can see here that the surrounding are effected the beauty of the environment where Kampong Ayer is the main tourist attraction but how can this be tourist attraction when the surrounding is that dirty. There been thousands of complaints regarding Kampong Ayer rivers being polluted and here is the evidence that I captured by myself, when I photograph this, I see rubbish were being dump at the bridge and I think that Bruneian people need to be more responsible and try to work out on how to lowering down the pollution on kampong Ayer river. The authorities have been working so hard on campaign on cleaning the river but somehow the people living around the Kampong Ayer careless about their own surrounding. This photograph can be use to aware people on the pollution that they been doing to our environment and hope someday they will realize and start to act fast.

References:

•           Bellis. M., History of Photograph. Retrieved on October 9^th, 2011 from http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm
•          Geoffrey. B., (2004). Forget Me Not. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.