The brief history of photography

[Magical Realist]

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VIDEO EXCERPT (intro): . . . The very first photograph was taken in France in 1826. It was rather crude and took at least 8 hours of exposure time. But since then, advancements in chemistry and technology have made it possible for people to take photographs simply by pulling cameras out of their pockets or bags.

Female Narrator: While the use of crude cameras such as the camera obscura, which allowed artists to trace a projected image, have been around since the 1500s. photography, as we know it, began as a chemical process, beginning with the daguerreotype, the first publicly available photographic process used in the 1840s and the 1850s.

Invented by Louis Daguerre, the daguerreotype used a chemical process that fixed images to a piece of silver plated copper. The copper plate was placed in the camera, exposed to light, which produced an image that was fixed by exposing it to mercury vapor. This highly toxic, cumbersome process produced an easily damaged image that was then placed in a case to keep it safe...