Hello, everyone!
Today is the World Photography Day. This has been celebrated for the last 20 years or so, on August 19th, bringing photographers from all over the world together.
Why this day?
On August 19th 1839, the French government announced the invention of the Daguerreotype as a gift "free to the world". Still in the year of 1839 another photographic processes was also invented - the Calotype. These two events mark 1839 as the year of the invention of photography.
Why was photography invented?
Well, during the Industrial Revolution, the middle-class became very fond of portraits. Oil panting was too expensive and slow, so photography emerged as a much more efficient method of capturing images.
Learn more about the History of Photography right here.
yours,
millou
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