History of Photography

The term camera comes from the Latin word " Camera Obscura" meaning "darkroom" or "dark chamber". The first people to use this equipment were British scientists Thomas Wedgewood and Sir Humphry Davy. They used it to record photographic images. Certain chemicals were known to be light sensitive, such as silver nitrate and silver chloride. The first known people to produce photographic images were French physicist Joeseph Nice`phore Nie`pce and French painter Louis Jaques Mande` Daguerre. The reason that their photographs aren't around today is that the silver plates gradually darkened oblit…