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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY-AUGUST 1 ലോക ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി ദിനം

 

WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY-AUGUST 1

ലോക ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി ദിനം

എല്ലാവർഷവും ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 19-നാണ് ലോക ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി ദിനം ആഘോഷിക്കുന്നത്. ഫ്രഞ്ച് സർക്കാരുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചരിത്രവും ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫിയുടെ പ്രാധാന്യവും ദിനത്തിന്റെ പ്രത്യേകതകളാണ്.ചരിത്രം1839 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 19-നാണ് ഫ്രഞ്ച് സർക്കാർ ഡഗെയറോടൈപ്പ് (Daguerreotype) ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി രീതിയുടെ പേറ്റന്റ് വാങ്ങി ലോകത്തിന് സൗജന്യമായി സമർപ്പിച്ചത്.ഫ്രഞ്ചുകാരായ ലൂയി ഡഗെയറും (Louis Daguerre) നിസിഫോർ നീപ്സും (Nicéphore Niépce) ചേർന്നാണ് ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി വിദ്യ കണ്ടെത്തിയത്.ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫി രംഗത്തെ വളർച്ചയും ചരിത്രവും ഓർക്കാനാണ് ദിവസം തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടത്

.പ്രാധാന്യംനിമിഷങ്ങളെ ചരിത്രമാക്കി മാറ്റാൻ ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫിക്ക് കഴിയുന്നു.ക്യാമറയിലൂടെ ലോകത്തെ കാണുന്ന ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫർമാരുടെ സേവനങ്ങളെ ആദരിക്കുന്നു.നല്ല ചിത്രങ്ങളും അവയുടെ പിന്നിലെ കഥകളും പങ്കിടാൻ ദിനം പ്രചോദനം നൽകുന്നു.

World Photography Day is marked every year on August 19, and 2026's edition carries the theme "home." This year's World Photography Day theme, "home," traces back to a single 19th-century decision that made photography free for the world to use. Image/PexelThe date and the occasion trace back to a specific 19th-century decision, not just a general celebration of the medium, and this year's focus asks photographers to document what home feels like rather than simply photographing where they live.The organisers behind World Photography Day have framed "home" broadly rather than literally, covering personal spaces and memory (a family kitchen, morning light through a familiar window), cultural roots (local streets, traditional textures, community rituals), and everyday objects reframed as meaningful subjects.The theme isn't tied to technical execution; it's oriented around personal connection over polish. The timing also overlaps with a separate milestone: France's Ministry of Culture is marking the 200th anniversary of photography across 2026 and 2027, dating back to the earliest permanently fixed photographic images from the mid-1820s.The day's origin traces to a specific sequence of 19th-century events. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced the first permanent photograph in 1826, using a camera obscura and a pewter plate, a process that was slow and difficult to reproduce.Louis Daguerre later developed the Daguerreotype, a process that produced sharp, detailed images directly on silver-coated copper plates without requiring a negative. The French Academy of Sciences purchased the patent from Daguerre, and on August 19, 1839, the French government declared the invention a free gift to the world, releasing it without copyright restriction. That date is what World Photography Day marks.

The kind of photography we know today dates back to 1839. At that time, the French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype process. The process made it possible to create a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper. The sheet was coated with a thin coat of silver, and the process did not require the use of a negative. It became the first method for obtaining a permanent image with a camera.Over 40 years later in 1884, George Eastman from Rochester, NY refined the Daguerreotype process. He replaced the copper plate with a dry gel on paper, which he called film. This invention alleviated the need for photographers to carry around heavy copper plates and toxic chemicals. In 1888, Eastman developed the Kodak camera. The inventional allowed virtually anyone to take a photo.With the explosion of digital photography, many people no longer use film in their cameras. However, some photographers would rather use film than digital photography. Some of the reasons they prefer film include:

Prof, John Kurakar

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