What do you understand by the term’ photography’. Explain the significance of photography in our day to day life.
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Photography is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
photography also helps us to record very crucial events of a life and we can keep a record of everything going around so that we don't have to remember anything just click a photo and leave it like that.
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the term photography literally means 'drawing with light'. Photography is made of two words, 'photo' means 'light' , 'graphy' stands for 'graphic which means drawing. The process to copy an image with the help of camera is called photography.
SIGNIFICANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY: We always see photographs around us. Behind the bus, on the sign boards, on the walls, in newspapers and magazines. Photos in newspapers and magazines inform us about an event or an incident. Remember the tsunami? One must have seen its pictures on newspapers as well as on television. It was these pictures that gave us information about such a big disaster.
These days pictures are as important to as the written or printed word. In fact in a country like our where still many people cannot read or write, photos have a greater use and a greater impact. Photographs are seen along with the written news in magazines and newspapers and they add to the impact of the news and convince us about the truth of the event we are reading about.
Modern photography was invented by two Frenchmen Joseph Niepce and Louis Daguerre. It was in 1827 that Niepce took that we know of as the first photograph. Niepce's partner Louis Daguerre made further improvements to the technology of taking photos and since 1839 photography became available to everyone who wanted to try it