Photography an art or science?
Photography is an art though the process involves science. Fundamentally speaking, science is associated with this art; it is an art but with technological advancements and invention of digital camera. In the time to come, it is expected that this art of photography would function with the support of science and many artists would continue to do the art work in this field of photography. Ever since 1839, photography has become an essential means of communication and expression. As stated by Beaumont Newhall (1982), photography “is at once a science and an art” and both aspects are inseparably associated throughout its rise from a substitute skill of hand to an independent art form with well-defined aesthetic roles and trends. The central role of photography was and still is that it has documented and recorded people’s lives and the world in history from a variety of perspectives. Photography in the 19th century was an intensive period featured by revolutionary inventions and techniques. Modern photography has now become a powerful means of communication and a mode of visual expression that touches human life in many ways. The early developments and technological advances of photography by European inventors are focused by historians of mass communication.
There are two distinct scientific processes that combine to create photography. The first of these processes was optical. The second process was chemical. In 1822, French man Joseph Nicephore Niepce began to produce images with a camera obscura box using material that hardened on exposure to light which was the first of those photomechanical techniques that were soon to revolutionise the graphic arts by eliminating the hand of a man in the reproduction of pictures of all kinds. 1 His intention was to make a picture of the nature that was projected into a box and work out how to fix it so it could be a durable permanent image. He called the results Heliographs. From 1826 to 1839, 1836 being the birth of
There are two distinct scientific processes that combine to create photography. The first of these processes was optical. The second process was chemical. In 1822, French man Joseph Nicephore Niepce began to produce images with a camera obscura box using material that hardened on exposure to light which was the first of those photomechanical techniques that were soon to revolutionise the graphic arts by eliminating the hand of a man in the reproduction of pictures of all kinds. 1 His intention was to make a picture of the nature that was projected into a box and work out how to fix it so it could be a durable permanent image. He called the results Heliographs. From 1826 to 1839, 1836 being the birth of
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