Photography is an art that took many years, and the efforts of many individuals to perfect. Many different people in many different fields contributed to this "light writing." Chemists, artists, inventors, and engineers all lending a crafting hand to the art. Photography was eerily predicted in the mid-1700's by la Roche in his work Giphantie. In this tale, it was possible to record images from nature on a canvas coated with a sticky substance. …showed first 75 words of 1372 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1372 total…it does now - reaching its heights in the mid-Victorian era. Technology caught on and eventually brought us to the cameras we have today. Many different movements caught on to the world of photography such as, travel, motion, time, and perception. The idea that photographs cannot lie adds to the drama and the intensity of pictures. Photographs can be used for journalism, documents, and art. Photography was just a puzzle waiting to be put together.