History of photography

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “History of photography”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Roger Fenton (1819–1869), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.