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Marcus Aurelius Root, Philadelphia daguerreotypist and photographer Half-plate daguerreotype of Phineas Taylor Barnum and Charles Sherwood Stratton (PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb) circa 1850 by Samuel Root. Marcus Aurelius Root (1808–1888) was a writing teacher and photographer.
Jonathan Root is an English portrait photographer. His subjects include: David Hockney , Peter Blake , Allen Jones , Gilbert & George , Philippe Starck , Marc Newson , Richard Rogers , Norman Foster , Zaha Hadid , Alan Bennett , Mark Rylance , Lord Bath , and Nicholas Haslam .
The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtós), genitive of φῶς (phōs), "light" [2] and γραφή (graphé) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", [3] together meaning "drawing with light". [4] Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently.
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...
Root also states (pp. 373): "Isaac Rehn, formerly a successful daguerreotypist, in company with Cutting, of Boston, perfected and introduced through the United States the "Ambrotype," or the positive on glass." What isn't mentioned in the referenced book is the particular year in which the term "ambrotype" was first used.
Doug and Mike Starn (born 1961) are American artists, identical twins, and artist duo. Their work is known to transgress traditional categorisation, combining separate disciplines such as sculpture, photography, architecture, painting, video and installation.
Alan Root (12 May 1937, London – 26 August 2017) was a British-born filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series such as Survival. [ 1 ] Until 1981 he was married to Joan Root , who was a Kenyan -born conservationist, murdered at Lake Naivasha in 2006.