Over the years, photography has developed into an art form as well as a medium of expression and communication. Society would be different without any pictures, such as television and movies. The invention of photography came about, because of the need of rendering perspective correctly.

    Photography is the art or process of producing images on a sensitized surface by the action of radiant energy and light. The name "Photography" comes from Sir John Herschel who first used the term in 1839 when the photographic process became public. It is derived from the Greek words for light and writing.

    The idea of a way to keep images permanent was not a new one. A prediction was made by de la Roche (1729-1774) in a book called Giphantie. The tale said it was possible to capture images from nature, on a canvas which had been coated with a sticky substance. This surface would provide a mirror image that would become permanent after it had been dried in the dark. Only several years after de la Roche's death, the invention of the photograph came into existance.

    Photography is not a natural phenomenon; it has its basis in science, and thus, had to be invented. Photography has no single inventor, it evolved over hundreds of years. Experimenters were working on the same problem unaware of each other's work. A small discovery would be made by one man; years later another man would build upon it. This continued until the pieces of information finally fit together and became the camera.