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Article: 150 years of photography - a look back at its birth.
- Article from:
- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 1989
- Author:
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Knowledge of the history of photography cannot make one a better photographer. Indeed, we take it for granted that many of the world's great photographs were made completely without though for the persons or events which made this art possible.
Knowledge of the history of photography can, however, make a happier photographer; a modern day practicioner in a great tradition, with a kinship to those who have gone before.
The year 1989 is to be observed by photo-historians and many other as the 150the anniversary of the birth of photography. This art and science owes it existance to the invention of a means for permanently recording the image of a scene as ...