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Photography SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Art p.28
▸ ▸ Computers p.71
A photograph is a still image taken using a machine called ▸ ▸ Film p.100
a camera. Photographs give us a visual record of who we ▸ ▸ Inventions
are and what we have done. These images can capture pp.136–137

important people and events in history, or private ▸ ▸ Telephones
moments in your own life. p.250
▸ ▸ Television p.251

Cameras
The first photographic Taking pictures
cameras were invented Early cameras Photographs fall under
in France in the 1800s, The first cameras took different categories called
but were large and hard pictures on metal genres. Pictures you take
sheets that had been
to use. Cameras are made sensitive to light. of yourself are called
now small enough to fit It took many minutes selfies, and other genres
inside mobile phones. to take a photo. include animals and travel.

Daguerreotype
cameras were the
first cameras to go
on sale to the
These cameras can public in 1839.
connect to computers
to transfer images.

Digital camera Film camera Selfie
Modern digital cameras Later cameras use
produce images made The film is strips of light-sensitive
up of millions of tiny rolled up plastic film. When the
points of color that are inside the film is exposed to light,
displayed on screens. camera. a picture forms.

Pet portrait

The first
photograph was
taken in 1816 by
French inventor Camera phone
Nicéphore Many people now take photographs
Niépce. using tiny digital cameras built into their
mobile phones. These photos can also be
transferred to and viewed on computers.

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