CHAPTER 2
Still and Motion Picture Photography: A Brief History
As noted in the introduction, “archival” visuals can refer to a broad range of items, including artwork, maps, newspapers, print documents, artifacts, and more. This chapter and the next focus more closely on the changing technologies behind the creation of today’s audiovisual heritage—photographic images and sound. We look at what the technology was meant to achieve; how the results were used by people at that time; and how further innovation has continued to affect how people capture, share, and preserve the sights and sounds of the world around them.
Still Photography
As a component of recorded history, still photography is a fairly recent invention. But non-photographic visual ...
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