Chandni Topic Blog: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE DIGITAL AGE

Photography has changed drastically from the 1826 when the first ever photography was taken by Joseph Niepce and then followed by Louis Daguerre who created the Daguerrotype. Followed by that, a Brazzilan painter, Hercules Florence, created a similar process and named it 'Photographie' and many more inventors after that changed the name to what we now know as PHOTOGRAPHY.

The first ever photograph took 8 hours, and then decreased to 30 minutes..and now in the 21st century takes less than one second. Photographs from the early 1830's were formed by using large pieces of equipment whereas now, a photograph can be taken by a mobile phone with a camera.

The modern age (also reffered to as the Information age) is an idea that the current age will be able to pass on information and have accesss to instant information which was not possible in the past. One of the main ways people gain access to instant information is via the INTERNET which is constantly growing and taking over many other forms of media. Therefore photography in the digital age is drastically different from photography when it first was created in the 1800's and photographic information is now instantly created as well as passed on and etc..

During my research of photography in the past/present i came across a sort of timeline on 'http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm' which has listed information about photography dating back from B.C to the 1990's which shows how much information has actually been found and how photography has evolved over decades.

Modernism is a modern thought, character or practice which came from changes to Western Society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernism rejects all forms of 'tradition' and is very abstract and unconventional. This plays a large part in any form of art as well as Photography which i could discuss in my essay..