Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWorld Photo Day originates from the invention of the\nDaguerreotype, a photographic process developed by Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and\nJoseph Nicephore Niepce in 1837.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 9, 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announced\nthe Daguerreotype process. On August 19, the French government purchased the\npatent and announced the invention as a gift \u201cfree to the world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Daguerreotype wasn\u2019t the first permanent photographic\nimage. In 1826, Niepce captured the earliest known permanent photograph known\nas \u201cView from the Window at Le Gras\u201d using a process called heliography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first durable colour photograph was taken by Thomas\nSutton in 1861. It was a set of three black-and-white photographs taken through\nred, green and blue filters. However, the photographic emulsions then in use\nwere insensitive to the spectrum, so the result was very imperfect and the\ndemonstration was soon forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On August 19, 2010 World Photography Day hosted its first global online gallery. Almost 270 photographers shared their pictures and people from over 100 countries visited the website. This marked the first official, globally reaching World Photo Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As early as 1839, a selfie was clicked by American Robert\nCornelius. Cornelius set his camera up, took the image by removing the lens cap\nand then running into frame. On the back he wrote \u201cThe first light picture ever\ntaken 1839\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first digital photograph was taken in 1957; almost 20\nyears before Kodak\u2019s engineer invented the first digital camera. The photo is a\ndigital scan of a shot initially taken on film which depicts Russell Kirsch\u2019s\nson and has a resolution of 176\u00d7176.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World Photography Day is observed on 19 August, which aims to inspire photographers across the planet to share a single photo with a simple purpose: to share their world with the world. Here is a look at photography over the years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 World Photo Day originates from the invention of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[99,507],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-days-events-current-affairs","tag-world-photography-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}