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a slice of time you murdered and framed before it could escape.
means A still image of a scene or subject, captured by recording light onto a light-sensitive surface or sensor.
from Coined in the 1830s from Greek roots: phos, photos meaning 'light,' joined to graphe, 'drawing' or 'writing' — literally 'drawing with light.' The term is usually credited to Sir John Herschel, who popularized it in the early days of the medium, when an image was indeed a kind of writing made by sunlight itself.
- first survivor
- Oldest one took eight hours to expose, 1826.
- silver thief
- Early film owed everything to light-sensitive silver crystals.
- word roots
- Greek for drawing with light, literally.
- camera obscura
- Artists traced projected images centuries before chemistry caught up.
- trillion club
- Humans now snap over a trillion photos yearly.
the afghan girl — national geographic's 1984 cover featuring sharbat gula, the most recognized photograph in magazine history
earthrise — apollo 8 astronaut william anders' 1968 image of earth rising over the moon, changed environmental consciousness
migrant mother — dorothea lange's 1936 depression-era portrait of florence owens thompson, iconic american documentary photography
tank man tiananmen — jeff widener's 1989 photograph of unknown protester facing chinese tanks, symbol of resistance worldwide