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Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

Timeline of Events

1839

1.9.1839

The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.

8.19.1839

Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.

1941

11.1.1941

American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.