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Photography In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence . . . . What is photography and how has it evolved? When studying eclipses several hundred years B.C.E., Aristotle had noted a particular effect of light, that when refracted through a small hole in a dark room, it would project the scene on the opposite wall. It was this "Dark Chamber" that was later used as the basis for the Camera Obscura for drawing purposes. So, conceptually, photography has been around for over 2,000 years. The actual term, "Photography" comes from the French word "Photographie" which was based on the Greek words Phos meaning "light" and Graphis or Graphé translating to "Drawing". The Heliotype, credited as the first photograph, was created by self-taught Nicéphore Niépce between 1826-27. It was a "fixed" image created by using a smaller more portable version of the camera obscura that would project an image onto a chemical-based light sensitive material. Gases were also used to speed up the exposure which already took a great deal of time. In 1904 Professor Arthur Korn transmitted the first image between Munich and Nuremberg by the process of Phototelegraphy. It allowed an image to be converted into an electrical current and transmitted over power lines. The current on the receiving end was then transferred onto a negative by means of a cathode ray tube. In 1914 the first news photo was transmitted. |
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