Practiced by thousands of people who shared no common tradition or training from the earliest days of photo-taking, the earliest photographers were disciplined and united by no academy or guild, which considered their medium as a profession. , a science, an art or an entertainment, and which often ignored the work of each. Exactly as it sounds, photography means photographing. The word photography comes from two Greek words, photo, or "light", and graphos, or drawing and comes from the beginnings of photography; the history of the above has been debated. The idea of ​​taking pictures originated about thirty-one thousand years ago, when strikingly sophisticated images of bears, rhinoceroses, bison, horses and many other creative types were painted on the walls of caves discovered in the south of France. The former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York states that "advancements in photography are more like the history of agriculture, with a continuous flow of small discoveries leading to larger discoveries, triggering in turn more experiments, inventions and applications. » while daily work continues without interruption. ˡFor many years, the only way to capture an image required painting or drawing the model or object. That was until 1814, when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor, took the first photo in history. Although the image was a permanent print, the image known as “View from the Guas Window” took eight hours to expose!1. Gustavon, Todd. Camera: a history of photography from daguerreotype to digital. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing, 2009. Intro p.2A process based on selection rather than synthesis: The invention of photography provided a radically new process of creating images. As different materials, we ...... middle of paper ...... y. " -George Eastman.ˡˡ9. Strauss, D. Levi. Between the Eyes. New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 2003.P.17010. Gustavon, Todd. Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital. New York , NY: Sterling Publishing, 200911. Kallen, A. Stuart. Looking at Art, Photography Farmington, MI: Lucent Books, 2007. Works Cited Kallen, A. Stuart. , MI: Lucent Books, 2007.2 Gustavon, Todd. A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing, 20093 Strauss, D. Levi. New York, NY: Aperture Foundation. , 2003.4 Szarkowski, John. The Photographers' Eye, New York: Doubleday and Co. INC. 1966.5 Light, Ken. Witness in Our Times: The Working Lives of Documentary Photographers. Institution Press, 2000.