Every year on August 19, photographers from different countries (both amateurs and professionals) celebrate World Photography Day. This holiday was established in 2009 by an Australian photographer named Korske Ara.
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The date of the holiday was not chosen by chance: on August 9, 1839, the French artist, chemist and inventor Louis Daguerre presented to the French Academy of Sciences the process of obtaining a daguerreotype - an image on a photosensitive metal plate, and on August 19, the invention was presented to the public during a joint meeting of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Fine Arts.
Daguerreotype is considered to be the first practical method of photography. And although this method was based on heliography developed around 1822 by the French inventor Joseph Niepce, it was thanks to Daguerre that this method of obtaining a photographic image became known throughout the world.
The daguerreotype method is based on the photosensitivity of silver iodide. Before use, special plates with a thin layer of silver, called daguerreotypes, were prepared in a special way - they were polished and sensitized. And then, during photography, they were exposed, and a latent image was formed on the surface of the plates, which later needed to be developed.
After development, the image on the plates still needed to be fixed, since it was very fragile. And the finished pictures in the future were necessarily covered with glass to protect them from damage. It is interesting to note at the same time that the resulting image could only be viewed under certain lighting and at a certain angle.
Daguerreotypes existed only in 1 copy, it was impossible to make copies from them, and the process of obtaining them was very expensive and time-consuming. Nevertheless, the innovation gained popularity very quickly, and soon fans of Daguerre's invention were able to significantly improve the process, reducing, for example, the exposure time and inventing a way to obtain a positive, rather than a mirror image.
Daguerre himself, after the publication of data on the daguerreotype process, did not take any further part in the development of photography. And although the daguerreotype was already supplanted by the collodion process in the 1850s, it is now considered the ancestor of modern photography.
In 2009, Australian photographer Korske Ara proposed August 19, the anniversary of the introduction of the daguerreotype to the public, to celebrate World Photography Day. The site worldphotoday.org was launched, where exactly one year later a global online gallery was opened, in which photographers share their works on the occasion of the holiday.
We wish you to celebrate this holiday with your beloved or find your soul mate on this day and share gifts and your best photos!
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