Photography
Photography is considered as a useful form of communication. A photograph has the ability to capture an experience, an idea or a moment in time and gives us more information about the place, people, events and objects in the photograph. World Photography Day is observed annually on August 19 to celebrate the art, craft, science and history of photography.
Facts:
* The word 'photography' is derived from Greek words meaning 'drawing with light'.
* The oldest photographic image is almost 200 years old and it took eight hours to capture.
* Print media (newspapers and magazines) has been using photographs of events and people since the 1800s.
* The first colour photograph was taken in 1861 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
* George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak company that made camera film and photography available to the masses.
* People never smiled in the olden days as they had to stay still for many hours for one photograph to be captured.
* The first digital camera weighed four times more than the modern DSLR.
* The most viewed photograph is a wallpaper of Windows XP named 'Bliss'. It was photographed by American photographer Charles O'Rear.
