How Did Photography Change The World

Before the discovery of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, the images created with the use of camera obscura were fleeting and unstable. Many worked toward making the images permanent and lasting. So, when in 1838 Daguerre announced to the world his process allowing to preserve the captured images, the world went wild. The world was already changing. The Renaissance scientific and intellectual revolution sought to move away from idealized images of the spiritual world. For the longest time, prior, the only people who could afford pictures were the aristocracy, magnates and other wealthy people who could afford to commission an artist to paint their portrait or a landscape of their choosing. In 1839, people sought to capture more accurate, real looking representations of reality, fulfilling the needs of secular society, who were no longer looking toward the idealized representations of reality. The industrial revolution further increased the need for exact images. The created by photography provided to be more accurate and …show more content…
Even though he discarded bitumen altogether, he was not successful in decreasing exposure time. In 1835, he had a breakthrough and discovered a process that will change everything in photography. He discovered a process called latent development. This meant that the photographer no longer had to wait for the image to appear, but could bring it out using chemicals. His experiments with mercury vapor proved to be successful. However, the problem of light continuing to darken the silver plates on which the image was captured remained. Daguerre discovered that a regular table salt could stop the process. Later he learned that a hyposulphite of soda also called sodium thiosulphate could work even better. It washed the unexposed silver iodide protecting the image from darkening and eventually disappearing. He called his images