Author Archive "Tanvi Dhulia"
Building Up
Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, an inventor from France, experimented with negatives created from albumen on glass. Soon after, the Langenheim brothers adopted …
Photography and Medicine
Alfred François Donné of the Charité Hospital in Paris is perhaps the first person who applied photography in medicine. He began by making …
The First Underwater Photograph
William Thompson, a natural historian from Dorset, was the first person to make a photograph underwater. It can be argued though that …
The Origin of the Word Paparazzi
The word ‘paparazzi’ originates from the film La Dolce Vita by Frederico Fellini. He named one of the characters, who is a …
Starting Out on His Own
Growing bored of his job at the Indian Government’s Central Power and Water Commission, S Paul decided to pick up photography. With …
The Beginning
Sir John Frederick William Herschel coined the term ‘photography.’ He derived it from the Greek words ‘light’ and ‘writing’.
