Photography belongs to a group of visual arts such as painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture and film. The goal of photography, like other fine arts, is to stop, hold and present reality or a certain moment. Photography unmistakably registers all data, and certainly its greatest significance is that it bears the mark of its epoch, ie the time in which it was created. Accompanied by the text, it may seem manipulative, but as an art it functions independently and speaks to itself.

In 2025, humanity will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first photograph. In 1825, Joseph Nicephorus Niepce made the first print, it was not a real photograph and at that time there was no name for this new invention, but it is definitely considered a forerunner of photography. The past was different and photography did not represent everyday life, but first a new invention, and then a way to preserve important and historical moments in eternity.

Today we are flooded with photography from all sides. Every medium and information rests on them, we make remakes of old photos, take selfies. Travels, which should fill us with new experiences, we often spend behind the lens. Every mobile phone has a camera with solid features and we carry it with us, whether we like it or not.

And sometimes, if you wanted to paint a tree in the park, you had to load yourself with equipment of about 50 kilograms. This was at the time of collodion photography (mid-19th century), which gave excellent results, but involved great equipment because everything had to be done quickly, while the collodion was still wet. In order not to stumble in nature under so much burden, richer photographers rented a carrier. Some put the equipment on special carts, and the wealthier would put it on carriages. A certain John Cybele, an amateur photographer from Glasgow, had the biggest camera in the 19th century. His camera was so large that it had its own wheels and was pulled by a horse.

Along with the camera, the background for photography also developed. In May 1850, photo paper began to be coated with whitewash to obtain a fine glossy surface. Such photography became very popular, and the largest producer of this paper, the Dresden factory Albuminpapirer in the 1990s, consumed 60,000 eggs a day, ie about 18 million a year.

Louis Daguerre was a painter and set designer, once known for the diorama he invented in 1822. In the 19th century, the diorama was a theatrical stage made of several huge plane trees that were painted and illuminated in such a way as to create the illusion of depth and movement. The audience was delighted with that.

Niepce and Daguerre concluded a joint research agreement in 1829 and worked together until 1833, when Niepce passed away. Two years later, by film coincidence, Daguerre discovered that mercury vapor can provoke and fix the image. He accidentally put the plate, illuminated in the obscure camera (darkroom), in the closet next to the broken thermometer, when it leaked mercury, and then, surprised, he realized that it worked. To make matters even better, he managed to reduce the exposure to a tolerable 20 minutes or so. That was already progress. From today's point of view, we would have something to complain about that Daguerre's procedure of photographing, it enabled the production of only one single shot, which could only be seen

at a certain angle, and there is still too long exposure and insufficient sharpness, but the image was finally captured. One of Daguerre's historical footage shows a very busy street, Boulevard du Temple, in 1838 (or early 1839) in Paris. Still too long exposure (more than 10 minutes) is the reason that, despite the heavy traffic, the street is deserted. Carriages and pedestrians were scattered on the street. One character remained recorded. See the bottom left and the historians of photography claim that this is the first person recorded in a photograph. The unknown hero had no idea that his silhouette would go down in history at a time when a dirty shoe polisher was going down in history. Niepce took the first photos 15 years before the photo was even born. It is not a photo, it did not have its own name and everyone called as they wanted. He called heliography, but Daguerre thought that the name was not adequate enough, so he called his procedure daguerreotype - to the dismay of Nijeps' son, who thought that the name did not sufficiently reflect his father's role in the discovery.

Before we get to the end of this walk through the early years of the history of photography, we must also mention the photographic bird. The exposures initially had to last a very long time, and in order to make a portrait, the photo studios had special holders for the head so that the model would not spoil the shot by moving it. Some photographers charged more for children's portraits, because the children could not rest for a long time, the shot would break down and the photographer had to use more plates for shooting. But in 1843, the Parisian daguerreotypeist Antoine Mark Goodin solved that problem. He would rather opening the shutter to the young model said, "Now look in the box, the little bird will come out." We should not emphasize that the bird never flew out, but that trick has been working for more than a century and a half.

In the old days, when photography was respected more than today, we will present several key works of the origin and development of photography.

In 1825, Joseph Nysefor Niepce made the first print. Of course, this is not a real photo yet, but it is considered a precursor to photography.

"View from the window in Le Grasse" is considered to be the first successfully made photograph, taken in 1826 or 1827, and it is assumed / believed that it took eight hours to create.

Louis Daguerre, a French artist and pioneer of photography, made the first photograph in 1838 in which people appear. It took the camera about 10 minutes for the photo to be "captured", so you can't see the traffic on it, but one man who was standing on the street for a long time still sees it.

In 1839, Robert Cornelius, a chemist and photographer from Philadelphia, took his first selfie. The option of delayed photography did not exist, so it is a classic selfie with an entire camera in hand.

The first woman to appear in the photograph was named Dorothy Catherine Driper, and it was photographed by her brother, the famous American photographer, John Driper in 1839.

Prvu kolor fotografiju snimio je Džems Maksvel 1861. godine.

The second photo shows Lahore Fortress in Pakistan, and was taken around 1864.

The first inauguration was recorded in 1864 during the second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.

The first underwater photograph was taken by a British man, William Thomson, in 1865.

The first color photograph depicting the landscape was taken in 1877 in southern France. The author of the photo is Luis Ducos di Oron.

The first aerial photograph was taken in 1858. Gaspar Felix Turnashonhe photographed the panorama of Paris.

Better panorama photography - James Blake Wallace, Boston, USA, 1860.

The first photograph taken in a professional studio was taken in 1893. The author of the photo is not known, and the place where the photo was taken is not known.

The first photograph from space was taken on a V-2 rocket ship, on October 24, 1946. The photograph shows Mexico, and the rocket was launched by the Americans.

The first digital photograph was created in 1957, so that an ordinary photograph was scanned and transferred to an electronic format. The author of the photo is Russell Kirsch from the USA.

The first moving series of photographs came to light with the help of Edward Maybridge, in 1887. The followi

Photography and film have evolved greatly from their first days to the present day, but what remains the same is the passion with which people approach them.