The Invention of Digital Photography Photography has been around since the 19th century, although it was not as advanced as it is today. It's an incredibly unique art form; it has the potential to capture a moment in time unlike any other medium. What makes it even more unique is that photography has only been around for a few decades, unlike any other medium. It has made incredible progress since the day it was discovered. In the words of Gordon Baldwin and Martin Jürgens in their book Looking At Photographs, “Cameras have undergone endless permutations, from the tiny wooden boxes built and used in the mid-1830s by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877 ), and that she was referring to mousetraps, the electronic wonders of the present” (cite this). Cameras went in a very short period of time from the Camera Obscura, invented by William Henery Fox Talbot to the digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson (paraphrasing). The most incredible advance in photographic technology in recent history was the invention of the digital camera. The first digital camera was invented in 1974 by a man named Steven Sasson, a research engineer working for Eastman Kodak. A supervisor asked Sasson to examine a charge-coupled device to see if it could be used as a sensor for a camera. It took Sasson about a year of research before he discovered that an image captured by a camera could be converted into an electronic signal and stored in digital memory (Bakker; Esser 45). Kodak president Philip Faraci told the New York Times: “”The technology was incomplete, but it was a real breakthrough”” (New York Times 2). The first prototype converted light into numbers and stored them on a digital cassette.......middle of paper......handwriting. Digital photography has become the most accessible form of photography so far. There are digital cameras everywhere; in phones, iPods and computers. Digital files can be transferred directly over the Internet from the same device from which they were taken. In the days of the daguerreotype, reproducing a print was not even possible, each photograph could only be printed once. Works Cited Bakker, Jacobus GC, and Leonard JM Esser. Charge coupled device. United States of America: Patent 3,858,232. October 31, 1989. PDF. Baldwin, Gordon and Martin Jurgens. Looking at photographs: a guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 1991. Book.Icklan, Tom. "Honors and Awards 2006". Journal of the Photographic Society of America (2006): 72.Rosenthal, Phil. “Corporate survival depends on the image of how the future will develop.” Chicago Tribune (2012).