History of Photography

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In history there are things that are important and have meaning , photography had both. If it weren’t for photography there could possibly be no television or phones , there were some major advances in photography though. Joseph Niepce got the first image with the camera obscura , but it did need eight hours of light exposure and it later faded. Then there was George Eastman in 1884 , who invents flexible photographic film which was created to make taking photos easier. About 100 or so years later there was the shot of the earth from the moon in 1968. 32 years in 2000 there was a phone called the J-SH04 which was made in Japan and was the first phone ever made with a camera. Those events did the most work in advancing photography.

The camera obscura was one of the inventions that led to photography and the camera years later.
Many years ago (before AD) the camera obscura was created to make reflecting images easier. It is a optical device that created an image of ...

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