FILM TV 122E Lecture 2: SG_2_History_Of_Image 2
Document Summary
The photographic image: from still to movement to digital. A brief history of the photographic image still and movies. As the historian robert leggat reminds us, photography was first an optical and subsequently a chemical problem to be solved. These are the two scientific processes that needed to be developed in order to capture and fix an image. By the end of the 20th century, a much more robust and flexible process based on electronic data began to assert itself. Mo ti, a scholar and philosopher in china observes and writes about the inverted pinhole phenomena. He also explains why the image is inverted. 1519 a. d. - a drawing of a camera obscura from this date is attributed to leonardo da. 1558 a. d. the camera obscura (dark chamber) is described by giovanni battista porta. 1704 newton"s opticks is published, arguing for the particle theory of light.
