William Henry Fox Talbot was an English chemist, who lived in the 1800s, who invented the process negative to positive for to make photographic copies of the same image. Today on Wikipedia he is called a photographer. But back to those times, the word ‘photography’ was not yet invented. Fox Talbot was one of the…
The Discovery of the Camera Obscura The second article in the series on the evolution of the photographic medium explores the discovery and the use of the ‘camera obscura’ during the Middle Ages, when Giotto’s artworks were regarded as the highest expression of artistic realism in the history of humankind. The discovery of the ‘camera…
The Evolution of the Photographic Medium Brief history of the evolution of the photographic medium, from the ‘camera obscura’ to the modern DSLR digital cameras. When was photography invented and how has it evolved since then? What kinds of devices have contributed to its rise? Where does the most popular camera, the SLR, come from?…