Summary
This
article is reproduced from the previous edition, volume 17, pp.
11395–11402, © 2001, Elsevier Ltd., with revisions made by the Editor.
Abstract
For
over a century and a half, photography has been the most popular and
widespread means of making images. The first and primary tool of
photography is the camera, and changes in the medium and its
applications are often attributed to technical developments in making,
reproducing, and distributing photographs. Equally if not more
significant, however, have been changes in the ways people think about
photography, including ideas about what and how photographs represent,
and the roles they have played in social, political, and economic life.
This article examines developments and conflicts in the idea of
photography within a historical framework of changing cultural practice.
Keywords
- Camera Obscura;
- Carte-de-Visites;
- Negatives;
- Portraits
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