World Photography Day 2022: Interesting facts that will amaze you

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

New
Delhi,
Aug
19:
Every
year
19
August
is
observed
as
World
Photography
Day
to
celebrate
the
history,
art,
craft
and
science
of
photography.

Here
are
some
interesting
facts
about
photography
that
will
amaze
you:

• The
  word
  ‘photography’ means
  ‘drawing
  from
  light’
  and
  it
  was
  first
  coined
  in
  1839
  by
  Sir
  John
  Herschel,
  who
  happened
  to
  be
  a
  British
  Scientist.

• The
  first-ever
  photo
  that
  consisted
  of
  a
  human
  was
  clicked
  in
  1828.
  The
  photo
  was
  clicked
  by
  Louis
  Daguerre
  who
  wanted
  to
  capture
  the
  Boulevard
  du
  Temple
  in
  Paris.
  Since
  the
  exposure
  lasted
  for
  seven
  minutes,
  a
  man
  was
  standing
  in
  the
  streets
  and
  was
  getting
  his
  shoes
  polished,
  he
  was
  captured
  in
  the
  photograph.

• The
  first
  aerial
  photo
  was
  clicked
  in
  1858
  and
  it
  featured
  Paris.
  However,
  the
  photograph
  no
  longer
  exists
  as
  it
  was
  lost
  long
  ago.

• The
  first-ever
  digital
  camera
  was
  invented
  by
  Steven
  Sasson
  in
  1975.
  During
  that
  time,
  he
  was
  working
  for
  Eastman
  Kodak.

• Back
  in
  the
  day,
  the
  minimum
  exposure
  time
  needed
  to
  create
  a
  photograph
  was
  approximately
  8
  hours.
  No
  wonder
  people
  never
  smiled
  in
  pictures
  back
  then,
  it
  would
  be
  impossible
  to
  hold
  your
  smile
  that
  long!

• A
  Mumbai-based
  jeweller
  by
  profession
  and
  photographer
  by
  passion,
  Dillish
  Parekh,
  has
  made
  it
  to
  the
  Guinness
  Book
  of
  World
  Records
  for
  the
  ‘World’s
  Largest
  Camera
  Collection’.

• Kodak,
  one
  of
  the
  oldest
  companies
  that
  produces
  camera-related
  products,
  was
  founded
  in
  the
  1890s
  by
  George
  Eastman.

• The
  first
  self-contained
  digital
  camera
  was
  invented
  by
  Steven
  Sasson
  when
  he
  worked
  at
  Eastman
  Kodak
  in
  1975.
  It
  was
  not
  the
  first
  camera
  that
  produced
  digital
  images,
  but
  was
  the
  first
  hand-held
  digital
  camera.

• The
  first
  ever
  photo
  of
  the
  Moon
  was
  taken
  in
  1851
  and
  the
  first
  photo
  of
  its
  dark
  side
  was
  taken
  in
  1959

• The
  world’s
  most
  expensive
  photograph
  was
  clicked
  by
  Andreas
  Gursky
  in
  1999.
  The
  photograph
  was
  sold
  for
  $4,338,500
  at
  auction.

• Unlike
  other
  camera
  brands,
  Kodak
  has
  no
  meaning.
  Where
  Canon
  means
  law,
  rule
  and
  principle
  whereas
  Ilford
  was
  derived
  from
  its
  birthplace,
  the
  founder
  of
  Kodak
  found
  ‘K’
  to
  be
  a
  strong
  letter.
  Therefore,
  he
  made
  a
  word
  from
  ‘K’.

Karnataka
withdraws
ban
on
photography,
videography
at
govt
offices

Thanks
to
digital,
mobile
and
instant
photography,
now,
over
350
billion
photos
are
now
taken
every
year
around
the
world.