funny photography
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Photography
The first photograph ever - 1826
View from the Window at GrasBy: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
The Daguerreotype
The father of a dead girl holds her body in his arms. The mourning picture was a common use for the daguerreotype.
The first nude photograph ever - 1839
“I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favourite things about it.” – Diane Arbus (Sontag, pp 150)
1888: First Kodak camera
You press the button, we do the rest
The first digital camera prototype - 1975
The importance of capturing a moment in time
Digitization
Manipulation
(Sontag, 1977: 3)
To collect photographs is to collect the world
Mallarmé said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book…
… Today, everything exists to end in a photograph. (Sontag, 1977: 156)