BIRTHDAY OF A WORD “PHOTOGRAPHY”

Today is a day when a term “photography” was used for the first time. On the 14th of March 1839 in London Sir John Herschel had coined the word and introduced it to the public at his Royal Society lecture.

Sir John Herschel — an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer.

The word “photography” was created from the Greek roots φῶς (phōs) = “light” and γραφή (graphé) = “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”. It’s interesting that in Russian language a word “svetopis”, what means the same “drawing with light”, was used in a sense of “photography” for along time.

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In the same year 1938 Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer of photography and a lamp manufacturer, produced the very first selfie. Cornelius had sit motionless for 10 to 15 minutes to get that image. The oldest known intentional photographic portrait/self-portrait of a human is signed by author — “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”