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Article: Photography's roots stem from ancient times
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- December 17, 1995
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DAVID BRAUNER
Jerusalem Post
12-17-1995
FRENCH painter Louis Daguerre and English scientist William Talbot, working separately, are generally credited with inventing photography in 1839. However, their work, in the eyes of some historians, is only the culmination of a long discovery process that reaches back into the the earliest recesses of time.
In one sense, the eye, the hand and a cave wall amounted to the first practice of photography. Right from the beginning, man demonstrated his abiding need to reproduce reality in accurate images.
In terms of recorded history, both of the basic building blocks of photography - chemistry and optics - are firmly rooted in the Middle East.
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