Positive And Negative Effects Of Photography

Photography has been around since the fifth century. Since then, this profession has advanced greatly throughout history. The word “photography” was created by a combination of Greek Root words, “photo”, meaning “light”, and “graphia”, meaning “writing” or “drawing”. We, as humans, have always been fascinated by the concept of being able to capture a moment within a picture and create a memory to keep and look back on. Photographs help us recall our past and can trigger different emotions from that memory. Photography has also changed the way many subjects are taught, for example, history is taught through visual representation, in particular, photos. There are both positive and negative effects to society when it comes to photography, for instance, false advertisement, in which we can learn from of usage. In the world today, photography has had an impact on society, the various fields, the pros and cons of capturing a moment in time, and it has changed the world as we know it today. The basic concept of photography began its existence in the fifth century. It was not until the eleventh century, an Iraqi scientist developed an object called, the camera obscura, also referred to as, pinhole image.
This camera consisted of light rays passing through a tiny hole and recreating themselves upside down on a screen that is placed parallel to the hole. In the seventeenth century, the camera obscura eventually became small enough to become portable, also during this time, basic