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Originally the camera was made to capture a moment in time quickly and exactly. Paintings often reflected the opinion of the painter in their art, however, photos show exactly what was happening. Photos can be biased but nonetheless they are real. Photography started becoming pretty well known around the civil war and that's where the first "imbedded" journalists began.

The first use of a lens that projected light onto a wall was the camera obscura (dark chamber)- this is where the name 'camera' comes from. The concept of 'light paintings' was created long before a method of permanently recording the image. The merging of physics and chemistry was required to allow this and resulted in the discovery of silver elements that turned black when exposed to light.

The main reason for its invention was to help artists in drawing difficult subjects. However, since the physics behind the camera were discovered by many different people across the world, they were subsequently used for different reasons.

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