World Photography Day: the history of an art for professionals and amateurs alike!
August 19th is World Photography Day, an international celebration of the discovery of photography!
In a world where millions of photos are taken by every possible medium and uploaded online every minute, World Photography Day inspires thousands of photographers around the planet to share a photo with one simple goal: to share their world with the world!
The camera captures everything from everyday scenes to incredible landscapes, creating a colorful mosaic, created by photographers of all levels living in different countries and expressing different cultures.
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, what skills or equipment you have. World Photography Day helps to open our eyes and see all the possibilities that photography provides to show the rest of the world through our own eyes!
The story behind World Photography Day How did August 19th come to be ‘World Photography Day’?
The inventors Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre, invented in 1837, a method of imprinting an image on silver-plated copper, which was called Daguerreotype and is the forerunner of photography. Two years later, the French Government patented the invention and presented the invention as a gift “free to the world”.
Here it should be mentioned that Daguerreotype was not the first permanent photographic image as in 1826, Nicephore Niepce took the first known permanent photograph, reproducing images with the help of sunlight, which led to the technique being called Heliotype. But because the French government on August 19, 1839, freely gave to the world the patent of Daguerreotype, which was the first practical and commercial photographic process, this was designated as World Photography Day.
The technology may have advanced enough and – even someone who has done little – can take quite good photos, but the first ones taken are an important archive and also a source of inspiration for enthusiasts ..
Let’s look at some of the most important ones.
