“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that is gone forever, impossible to reproduce. » - Karl Lagerfeld. Photography is a beautiful thing that has evolved over the years. With the help of technology, photography has evolved since the time when the very first photo was produced in the 1700s. We have found faster ways to produce an image and the colors and format have become more attractive for the human eye. Photography has been helping generations see the previous generation for decades. We can only receive so much imagery through words until we turn to a photograph that says it all. This all goes back to the old adage that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” The evolution of the camera and the history of photography is the true beauty of what made images what they are today. The word photo in Greek means light and the word graphic means to draw. The full word photography means drawing with light! Photography began in the 1700s using boxes as cameras. People also started making the first camera using dark rooms and using a window to let in light. In the 1700s, medicine wasn't that great. People didn't know much about medical doctrine. It was common for small babies to die within the first year of life. Some suffered from birth defects that doctors didn't know existed or diseases that infected their small and weak immune systems. Photography was expensive at the time and only wealthy people had their dead children photographed in memory of them. At that time, the camera was very slow in collecting the information needed to create an image. The subject had to be very still, but for dead people this was not a problem. In 1826 the first image was recorded by a man in the middle of a sheet of paper......what words can do for us. A photograph can put an image in our minds that we cannot receive in words. Photographers before Nicéphore and after the 1990s influenced photography to make it what it is today. Sources cited “Joseph Nicéphore Niepce”. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Np, and Web. March 27, 2014. "John Frederick William Herschel - Biography." John Frederick William Herschel. Np, and Web. March 28, 2014. “Lee Friedlander: Sticks and Stones and At Work.” » COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, nd Web.PBS. PBS and Web. March 28, 2014. “Photojournalism.” Photojournalism. Np, and Web. March 28, 2014. “Quotes about photography. » (281 quotes). Np, and Web. March 28, 2014. Sutherland, Crystal. “History of photography”. Goodbye. June 23, 2011: b. page. Print.