Photography is an art that took many years, and the efforts of many individuals to perfect. Many different people in many different fields contributed to this "light writing." Chemists, artists, inventors, and engineers all lending a crafting hand to the art.
Photography was eerily predicted in the mid-1700's by la Roche in his work Giphantie. In this tale, it was possible to record images from nature on a canvas coated with a sticky substance. Unfortunately the author died before he could see his fiction become real.
Two different scientific process had to combine in the 1830s to make photography possible. Its suprising that photography did not come around sooner due to the fact that the two processes were around for a long time before they were put together to from photography.
The first process was optical. The camera obscura was the first know camera. …
