Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Etymology- Photography

The term photography is actually derived form the word photograph which dates back to 1839, and means "a picture obtained by photography." The term was first used by Sir John Herschel from photo- + -graph "instrument for recording." From the word Photgraph cam the word Photography meaning the art of the photograph. Photograph and photography are both first found in a paper read before the Royal Society on March 14, 1839.

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