Photography

Photography literally means 'painting with light' (from the Greek photos, light, and grapho, to describe). Photography is the art and science of capturing an image on a light sensitive material. Photography is usually done with a camera using visible light, but other forms of photography include photograms, microscopy, infra red, ultra violet and x-ray photography and astronomical photography using various kinds of telescopes.

The first photograph

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is generally credited as the first person to successfully combine the camera obscura with a light sensitive material to produce the first photograph.