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Development of the Photograph

The industrial revolution brought about massive technological change over a period of decades and continued this trend to the present day. The changes brought about in technology influences the development of new means of communication, contributing to the rise of the mass media and the art and craft of photography. In turn, this would have a profound effect on the growing middle class, bringing images, pictures, text, and ultimately sound and the moving image directly to millions of people who in the past would have been denied access to the information so provided. This meant a change from a society where knowledge was held by relatively few to a society where knowledge was accessible to almost everyone, and eventually this would lead to the information age in which we now find ourselves, an age where the media and technology have conspired to provide ready access to a world of information to almost every man, woman, and child. Consider only one aspect of the matter, the invention and development of the photograph in the nineteenth century and the way it was affected by the industrial revolution and changes in technology at that time and the way photography would later influence the development of modernism and Pop Art in the twentieth century.

The creation of the photographic image was a case of a new technology developing the means to capture and record images from the real world in a way that had never been possible before. The daguerreotype was the first type of practical photographic reproduction, though the process was very difficult and had limited applications as a result of the time needed to produce an image. The process was used for about a decade before it gave way to a different process, but in that time the daguerreotype was an important means of preserving images from the early period of photography. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre was born in 1789 and died in 1851, the year when his process began to give way ...

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