Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - What is photography?

What is photography?

Photography refers to the process of recording images with some special equipment. Generally, we take photos with mechanical cameras or digital cameras. Sometimes photography is also called photography, that is, the process of exposing the photosensitive medium by using the light reflected by the object.

The word photography in English comes from the Greek word φ ω? 0? 9 phos (light) and γ ρ α φ ι? 0? 9 graphis (painting, drawing) or γ ρ α η graph η, which together mean "drawing with light". Refers to the process of recording images with some special equipment. Generally, we take pictures with mechanical cameras or digital cameras. Sometimes photography is also called photography, that is, the process of exposing the photosensitive medium by using the light reflected by the object. Someone once said an incisive language: the photographer's ability is to transform the fleeting ordinary things in daily life into immortal visual images.

Photography, commonly known as photography, is to use a camera to image the negative, and print the negative into a single photo, which is permanently preserved one by one. But the image of the photo is static and silent, just to let people watch its characters and artistic conception, and then understand its meaning.

Today, the earliest existing photos in the world can be traced back to 1827, from the Frenchman Joseph? 6? 4 Nip's hand.