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Who coined the term photography?
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The origin of the word photography comes from two root words existing hundreds of years before the process was developed. In the Greek language, phōtós means light, and gráphein means to write. Sir John Herschel coined the word in 1839 after Louis Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot refined the process.
In the early 1900’s almost nobody took photographs. The first Brownie camera was not manufactured until 1904 and at that time only Eastman Kodak had a process for the mass market. It took decades for photography to become popular. It was made popular initially through photojournalists that worked for newspapers. Life Magazine was launched in 1936 and was responsible in some way for the popularity of photography. The first photojournalists were mostly men. The first notable exception was Margaret Bourke-White who was a Life Magazine Photographer in the 1930’s. There have many other famous female Photographers including Diane Arbus, Mary-Ellen Mark, Suze Randall and Annie Leibovitz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White
In the early 1900’s almost nobody took photographs. The first Brownie camera was not manufactured until 1904 and at that time only Eastman Kodak had a process for the mass market. It took decades for photography to become popular. It was made popular initially through photojournalists that worked for newspapers. Life Magazine was launched in 1936 and was responsible in some way for the popularity of photography. The first photojournalists were mostly men. The first notable exception was Margaret Bourke-White who was a Life Magazine Photographer in the 1930’s. There have many other famous female Photographers including Diane Arbus, Mary-Ellen Mark, Suze Randall and Annie Leibovitz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White
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