Photography is many things. An art. A way of preserving meaningful moments and memories. A passion for some, a profession for others. Join us on a journey through photography’s past, present and future.
Today, we use our smartphones to take photos of everything. Our children. Our friends. The food we eat. Places we go. Things we need from the store. But photography wasn’t always so easy and omnipresent. Before the digital era, taking pictures was reserved for special occasions: Christmas, family reunions, the first day of school. And before that, it was reserved for the upper echelons of society as a replacement for portraits.
But let’s back up a little. Long before there were cameras, early photographers recorded images using what’s known as a camera obscura. It consisted of a dark room with a hole (the forerunner of the lens) in one of the walls. Images of objects outside the room were then projected through the hole onto the wall opposite it.