Fixing the shadows..

How time froze through photography.


It is said that photography was invented in 1979 but indeed the idea had been alive for much longer than that.

Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre

at the early century of photography had come up with a new way of fixing the shadows of temporary photography. He was speculated to be a good show-man who turned photography into a business of amazement and it was worth the crowd because this
 
daguerreotype 
 aspect of photography was a mirror reflection of photographs which seems amazing although as beautiful and captivating as it is to use this kind of style, it is quite time consuming and expensive to keep up with. I never thought photography had so much impact in our lives today but now judging from the eyes of those who took amateur photos and later got recognition.
The art of photography is well rounded in the fact that  it does savour memories that "might" tell a story on a particular time of event or events on how the person in front of the lens would want it to be portrayed and most times it tells non at all. One well known and incredible amateur photographer was Henry Lartique. His talent for telling stories through the lens was an accidental genius of discovery.

Accidental incredibility could happen but to get a recognition of consistence is seemed to be impossible in a career as photography. This is as a result of affordability. Photography through the course of time has been made available, portable and affordable thanks to KODAK which still lives on. When photography was just an invention of the incredible minds of very important philosophers and scientists, it was not available to everyone. People took the gesture of having their pictures (images) taken by a genius mind as a big-deal but over the course of years, it's now an open secret that anybody could be a genius in photography. It is seen as a physical reminder of childhood to the figment of a loved one in your locket. One can never really advance in photography unless they understand the image, its importance and projection that was involved and how it evolved.
Basically my view is since photography is an art, anybody can be an artist but the only difference is credibility and consistence of conscious thinking.

Bests of Jaques Henri Lartique