Say, “Cheese!” Reading: Find out more about the history of photography a) Read the text and match each paragraph with a picture. 1. At the beginning of photography, there was the camera obscura (‘dark chamber’). This was a box with a hole in one end, where light came in. The light hit a mirror, which created a picture on the back of the box. However, this picture was gone as soon as the light disappeared. For artists, the camera obscura was still very useful for their drawings and paintings. 2. The word photography comes from two Greek words: phos, meaning ‘light,’ and graphein, meaning ‘to write.’ So, the meaning of photography is ‘writing with light.’ Around 1826, the first photograph was made. It took eight hours to take a picture of the view from a window. It was very blurry, but at least it didn’t disappear. 3. Another type of photograph was the daguerreotype, which was named after its inventor, Louis Daguerre. It was a French invention, but it was most popular in the US, where people were crazy about the silvery and ghostly pictures. However, people who wanted to have a picture of themselves had to sit still for over 20 minutes! If they moved, the picture would be blurry. This is why most early photographs showed landscapes and things rather than people. 4. One of the biggest problems in early photography was to make sure that the picture didn’t disappear. After some time, scientists discovered a way to take pictures of people by using chemicals and paper. The best thing about this new method was that people did not have to stand still for so long anymore. Then it became popular to give photos to friends and family. 5. In the 1960s Polaroid cameras were very popular. They could develop film inside the camera within one minute. You just had to shake the prints a bit and the photo would be developed. By about the year 2000, most people were using digital cameras. Digital photos are easy to share, e-mail and delete. Nowadays, one can even use a smartphone to take good photos. The newest trend is to take pictures of oneself without the help of other people: the selfie is born! gx92mt 4 A B C D E 66 8 Unit Picture-perfect sixty-six Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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