Photography From 1930

Photography from 1930-1960: Introduction With its inception in the 19 th century, photography has awakened man in its dream of a technicolored world. Through the lens, the world saw new ways of thinking-to educate, record events, reflect, and show emotion and respect. Photographers and enthusiasts led society in a new form of evolution in a way that memories are considered as a tool to infer knowledge. Time flies but photography has shown to us why it is so indispensable in the process of human and social development. Emphasis is shifted from art to social value, valuing photographers not as artists but as sublimed educators. The development of commerce gave every photo a price equivalent for its purpose and photography is opened to new frontiers and markets. But with all its development, photography has evolved into a modern art form uprooted from its social origins, taking part the people who participated in its blossoming. Background Photography was coined out from the Greek word “Phos”(light) and “graphein”(to draw).Its main function is the production of a negative or positive black and white or colored record in the form of light upon a sensitive surface. The art can be pursued using a camera-a box with lens and other parts arranged to project an image of the scene to be recorded onto a sensitive film or plate. Photography made its debut in 1839 when John Herschel made the photographic process open to the public (Grolier,p-265).Since its debut, the medium spread rapidly across Europe and

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Photography From 1930