Photography: then and now by Barbora Misakova

It is nothing new, that people, except souvenirs usually bring from holidays also photographs. Everyone wants to show their friends and family members which hotel they slept in, what food they ate and how blue was the sea. While in the past a photographer had to think twice before he took a picture, today it is not needed. You can go for few days trip and come back with thousands of photographs and no one will be surprised. On the contrary – it is a new necessity of this era – taking pictures of everything we have seen, we have touched or even smelt. One would say that without pictures from the holiday there was not holiday at all. And that is the main problem &! #8211; sometimes we concentrate on taking pictures of things much more than the things themselves. Instead of enjoying the sunlight, historical buildings, sea and the place itself, we are immortalizing them through the pictures we take. But do not get me wrong – there is nothing bad on photographing, as long as you enjoy it! First photography, which was made in 1838, was an image of a man who appears to be getting his shoes or boots shined at a street corner. The picture was made by Louis Daguerre – French artist, chemist and the inventor of the daguerreotype process. This process involved exposing a chemically treated metal plate for several minutes and so enabled us to create images of anything we want. But pictures from the era of their birth will always have unmistakable and incredible atmosphere. That is the reason, why I still have the old 80s picture of my parents framed on my desk.

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