How Photos Were Made Through History, From Daguerreotypes to Digital

Making a photo today is a subject of pressing a button and letting a gang of electronics do their matter . Before that we had film , and before film we had even more ill-chosen process . Did you know that gain photographs once necessitate material like egg - whites , asphalt , and platinum ? Watch these TV to hear and see how the magic of photography came to be .

The series , bring on byGeorge Eastman House , takea you through just how photographs were invented and complicate , starting from the very first experiments with the photographic camera obscura and scant - sensitive silver saltiness . It ’s incredible engrossing to see the actual processes demonstrated on television camera . It ’s also pretty important , I think , to have a rudimentary noesis of how such an influential technology works . Here they all are :

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