Photography is the process whereby light produces an image on a sensitized surface. The precursor of photography and the modern camera is the camera obscura (Latin for "dark chamber"). In its basic form, as developed by tenth-century Islamic...

In August 1839, at a joint meeting of the French Academies of Sciences and Fine Arts, the astronomer François Arago (1786-1853) announced Louis Daguerre's (1787-1851) method of obtaining pictures by the interaction of light and chemicals....

method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the...

During World War II most photographers were "engaged"—they fervently believed in America and in the American cause. Many of the photographers of the war came out of the 1930s tradition of social documentary photography. Documenting...

The digital imaging technologies commonly used today evolved from technologies created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1960s. Government scientists were looking for a way to...

Photography is the recording of visible images by focusing light on light-sensitive materials. English astronomer Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) first used the term photography in 1839. The word comes from the Greek photos, meaning light, and graphos,...

The images now associated with World War I—of the slaughter in the trenches, of the disillusionment of the soldiers mired in the muck—did not emerge in the still photographs published during the conflict, thanks in large measure to the...

Photography is a technology that facilitates documentation of the visible world by manipulating light with a mechanical device. It is also a subjective medium capable of challenging stereotypical constructions of masculinity in art and culture, given...

Without chemistry, photography, as it is known, would not exist. Photography is a complex array of chemical reactions. Each step, from the manufacture of the film through the final prints or slides being viewed, has its own particular chemical...

Wildlife photography is a loosely-defined profession which demands a passion for nature and art. Wildlife photographers make a career of traveling to remote areas and taking pictures of wild animals and natural scenery. Wildlife photography began as a...

Method of recording permanent images by the action of light projected by a lens in a camera onto a film or other light-sensitive material. It was developed in the 19th century through the artistic aspirations of two Frenchmen, Nicéphore Niepce...

Self-thinking, or in the case of a mechanical device, preprogrammed and self-regulating. (Firearms) A firearm capable of ejecting a cartridge casing following discharge and reloading the next cartridge from the...

To write or draw with light. Recording with light is closer to the modern meaning of the...

Photography (IPA: /fÓ'tÉ'grÓfi/ or /foÊ'tÉ'grÓfi/) is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects expose a sensitive...