Photographing

The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles, that of the camera obscura (darkened or obscured room or chamber) and the fact that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light, as discovered by observation. As far as is known, nobody thought of bringing these two phenomena together to capture camera images in permanent form until around 1800, when Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented, although unsuccessful attempt. In the mid-1820s, Nicéphore Niépce succeeded, but several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude.

Making action pictures — Making Action Pictures (Doel, Belgium)

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Photographer statue (Guangzhou, China) — Photographer Statue (Guangzhou, China)

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Fotografieren

Fotografiando

拍照

التصوير

Photographier

Memotret

The web has been a popular medium for storing and sharing photos ever since the first photograph was published on the web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992 (an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernettes). Today sites and apps such as Flickr, Picasa, Instagram, JPR Photos and Videos and PhotoBucket are used by many millions of people to share their pictures.