Photography
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Is Photography Art?
The word photography comes from the two Greek words photo, meaning light, (about.com) and graph meaning drawing and yes, photography is widely recognized as a fine art. Photographs are displayed in art museums, prized by collectors, discussed by critics, and studied in schools. Today, photography has become a huge part of our communication and a type of visual expression that touches man kind in many ways. You can find photographs in just about all newspapers, magazines, and books and all over TV, but where did it all come from? Where did it all start? In this report we will explore the origin of photography as well as the many techniques used by inventers to capture various images trapped in time.
Because of the complication of photography, it was not always like this. In the beginning days of photography, some people saw this as a way of cheating and stuck with more simple forms of image reproduction such as drawing and painting...