World Photography Day is annually observed across the globe on 19th August to celebrate the art, craft, science and history of photography. The day also inspires photographers across the globe to share one of their photographs to share their world with the world.
World Photography Day is also known as World Photo Day.
Background:
The first-ever World Photograph was observed on 19th August 2010. The day was marked with the first global online gallery which was hosted with the photographs of more than 270 photographers.
Photography:
i.Photography can be defined as the process of capturing light using a device called a camera and creating an image.
ii.The term photography was coined by Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1939.
iii.The word photography is derived from the Greek words photos (“light”) and graphé (“to draw”).
History:
i.The process of photography began in the late 1830s in France.
ii.Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a portable camera obscura and recorded the first permanent image (that does not fade quickly) which was known as “View from the Window at Le Gras” using a process called heliography.
iii.Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in collaboration with Louis Daguerre created the daguerreotype, the forerunner of modern film.
iv.The French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype process on 9th January 1839.
v.The French government purchased the patent and announced the invention as a gift “free to the world”.
