There is only one way to make people immortal. Photography is the process of writing with light. Photographs are permanent images of people or things. Photography hasn't always been as simple as a click of a button and that's it. It took a lot of work to come up with the modern camera. Photography grew out of experiments by people to create new ways of communicating by creating permanence in photographs, making prints of photographs, and moving toward the modern camera. Small ideas turned into big projects. Trial and error evolved into what we have today. The photographs were permanently created using several techniques from different photographers. Joseph Nicéphore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Joseph Nicéphore Niepce's heliographs or solar prints, as they were called, were the prototype of modern photography, letting the light draw the picture. Niepce carved an engraving onto a metal plate covered in bitumen, then exposed it to light. (About.com). Niepce's photograph required eight hours of exposure to light to create, and after appearing, it quickly disappeared. Together, Niépce and Louis Daguerre refined the bitumen process, using a more sensitive resin and different post-exposure treatment and easier-to-view images. In-camera exposure times were always measured in hours. Daguerre developed a simpler and more effective method of photography, giving it his name (the daguerreotype). Daguerre's process places the images on a sheet of silver-plated copper. He polishes the silver and coats it with iodine, creating a light-sensitive surface. This process created a lasting image, which would not change if exposed to light. These photographers helped advance... middle of paper... camera, processing and printing. The camera was then reloaded with film and returned. Photography began with people trying to communicate in ways other than words. Photography was born from the permanence of photographs, photographic prints and the advancement of modern cameras. Without photography, we would have no evidence of the real events taking place in the world. Life would be based entirely on the word of man, which can easily be misinterpreted. Photography is always progressing with the speed of technology in our society. Works Cited “History of Photography and the Camera.” About.com Inventors. Np, and Web. November 13, 2013. “History of Photography.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, May 11, 2013. Web. November 13, 2013. “Films and photographic prints”. About.com Inventors. Np, and Web. November 19, 2013. “The camera”. About.com Inventors. Np, and Web. November 19. 2013