{"id":3240,"date":"2014-09-09T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:59:17","slug":"a-brief-history-of-photography-as-of-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Photography…as of 1912."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img485\"I have a few old camera magazines – about a century old. \u00a0It’s fun to flip through them every now and then and consider how much has changed…and in some cases, how little has changed…in the field of photography.<\/p>\n

The article below, from the December 1912 issue of “The Camera” magazine (cover above), recounts the history of photography from that time frame. \u00a0Nowadays with our digital, throw-away cameras worth hundreds of dollars (or more) that do all kinds of crazy things we don’t even know about, in order to produce perfect images that can then be altered and made to “look old” again, I think few people know how photography actually came to be.<\/p>\n

And in spite of all the things which have changed, it’s still all about capturing light through a lens and a very small opening to produce tiny chemical reactions on a flat surface. \u00a0Oh, and the screw used to attach a camera to a tripod is still exactly the same size.<\/p>\n

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I have a few old camera magazines – about a century old. \u00a0It’s fun to flip through them every now and then and consider how much has changed…and in some cases, how little has changed…in the field of photography. The article below, from the December 1912 issue of “The Camera” magazine (cover above), recounts the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1303],"tags":[1439,1440,1443,819,1444,1441,1791,429,1442],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genphotography","tag-1800s","tag-daguerr","tag-davy","tag-history","tag-j-gordon-ogden","tag-niepce","tag-photography","tag-technology","tag-wedgewood"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}