What Is Photography?

Sanket Khatua
2 min readMar 1, 2022

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Getting creative with light is the art of photography, we can capture an image with the help of a digital sensor or film.

The first photograph was captured in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in France. It shows the roof of a building lit by the sun. You can see it reproduced below:

In the present times the camera technology has developed a lot that we can now capture almost any thing we want to capture.

We’ve come a long way since then.

Color photography started to become popular and accessible with the release of Eastman Kodak’s “Kodachrome” film in the 1930s. Before that, almost all photos were monochromatic.

What is the purpose of photography?

The purpose of photography can vary depending on what the photographer is trying to achieve. For example, documentary and news photographers capture images for the purpose of providing detailed account of actual events, while hobbyist photographers aim to capture life moments with their families and friends.

The purpose of this article is to introduce you to the worlds of photography. And as I say this is just a small introduction about photography their is a whole lot of things to learn or to study about photo and photography.

Thank you.

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