Photography In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence . . . .

What is photography and how has it evolved?

Several hundred years B.C.E. during an eclipse, the Greek philosopher Aristotle had observed a particular phenomenon of light that was projected onto a surface from an opening in a dark room. This effect that he had witnessed is similar to pinhole photography as well as the operation of the pupil in organic life. It was in this dark chamber that allowed the Phos "Light", Graphis or Graphé "Drawings" to occur and laid the foundation for the Camera Obscura.

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 that already took a great deal of time.


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