The BBC’s six-part television series, The Genius of Photography, premiers tonight (Thursday, 25 October, 2007) on BBC Four at 9pm GMT.
Tonight’s programme is Fixing the Shadows:
Photography first came to life in Venice where Abe Morell used bin-liners and masking tape to turn a room into a camera—but the images created were transitory.
Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre discovered how to ‘fix the shadows’ to produce permanent images and at that moment photography was born.
Fixing the Shadows follows the birth of photography through to the age of mass photography triggered by the creation of Kodak by George Eastman.
See the BBC’s overview for more information.