What Is Photography?

            Photography. Originated from Greek terminology, when broken down “photo” means the light and “graph” means to draw. Thus, the literal definition of photography is “drawing with light.” What photography actually is can be found everywhere, be about anything, and be interpreted in any which way. Photography allows an individual to capture a still frame image through the use of a film, digital, electronic, or magnetic memory source, a working camera.

By: Vyacheslav Mishchenko

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            The original camera was invented by Joseph Niepce in 1827 called the Polaroid camera. This camera immediately created a hard copy of the heliograph (photograph) and developed the photo with exposure to the sun or water in order to view the image. Mort contemporary versions of the camera and of photography itself were invented in the 1880’s with the Kodak and even more so in 1900’s with the Brownie. These cameras were much more cheap and accessible and their pictures were easily more visible and clear.

By: Inigo del Castillo

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            Photographs can be presented through the form of printed photo, a digital file, or on the internet either on a website or by the means of a social media network. Photographs document events, places, and times in which an action occurs and can be either realistic (such as a portrait or landscape) or abstract (such as altered with filters or made into collages). It is symbolic in the way that the camera holds onto this immobile moment in time that, without words, can have a vast array of meanings unless one was there to witness it.

By: Shannon & Ivan Amargo

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By: Bretten James