In 1839 a process was invented that would forever change human perception and communication. Dubbed photography from the Greek words phos meaning light, and graphos meaning writing (Jeffrey, 240), the process was a much anticipated discovery. Long before its actual birth, the basic concept of of photography was common knowledge. It wasn’t until the 1800s, however, that the idea of permenently fixing an image to a surface became tangible. Upon this discovery came the race to …showed first 75 words of 359 total…

…showed last 75 words of 359 total…of the medium took many forms, but it wasn’t until 1880 that the most blatant of these forms surfaced. In 1880, the Daily Graphic, New York printed the first photographic image in its pages. By the early 1900s photo-journalism became a proffesion (Jeffrey, 243). As the 1900s progressed photography established itself as a solid a vital form of mass communication, both in print and exhibit. Bibliography Jeffrey, Ian. Photography: A Concise History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.