Photography Firsts and Milestones
Photography, for today's citizen of the Earth, means the taking a picture of anything we see using a camera and processing it as a digital image in an electronic display such as the computer monitor or a hard copy on paper. Other surfaces also used for photographic images are glass, metal, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), etc.
The etymology of the term photography comes from the Greek words φῶς(photos), meaning lightand γραφή(graphé), meaning illustration by means of linesor drawing.
