Abstract:
The word "photography" is adapted from the Greek words for "light" and "writing".
The following people have contributed with the developing of photography: Joseph
Nicephore Niepce, Louis J.M. Daguerre, and Hippolyte Bayard in France and William
Henry Talbot in England.
Daguerre's invention, (made public on 19 August 1839), was one of a kind picture on
metal- in contrast to Talbot's invention of a negative made on paper and then later a
positive. It became famous in 1840. After all of this, the gateway to photography was
opened.
In this essay I am going to concentrate more on the history of people photography,
mainly concentrating on black and white photography.
