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Innovations of the Camera
The camera captures moments of your life. It helps you remember the times you had with your family, friends and loved ones. The camera can also be used for a profession as well as a pastime. The first camera was invented in 1837 by [|Louis Daguerre]. He named it the Daguerreotype. It had "evolved from the camera obscura" in the 16th century(Sullivan). “With the daguerreotype [...] everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent” (Draper). Since invented the camera has given us knowledge, has changed the arts, and has given us a new way to perceive the world.

During 1888 [|George Eastman] invented the Kodak camera. With this dramatic change made in the camera we could now record history in a new way. The camera has given us knowledge of the past and present. It has given us insight to what and who was before us. It allows us to see the people of the past, see turning points in history and captures today's events for the people of the future.

In 1948 the Polaroid camera was fabricated and instant images were created. The camera changed the arts. Instead of just drawings, paintings and our memory we could could now capture and document important events and people with the camera. Paintings were no longer needed for portraits and photography provided a cheaper and faster alternative. And then the [|digital camera] was invented. The digital camera has "greatly changed the way cameras work" (Sullivan). Today "ubiquitous digital cameras turn events that in themselves would be a small story into a worldwide phenomenon"(Castella). With a picture we can transform nothing into a whole drama or a cause that is good and worthy of controversy. The first [|camera phone] was invented in 2000 in Japan. Through out this time the camera has transformed in many ways: from its size, quickness and how portable it can be.

The camera has changed the way we see and know the world today. It opens up our eyes to things occurring in the world that we might have never known about. It helps us see the world in a different perspective. The camera has shown us how ugly and beautiful the world really is. Without the first model of the camera there wouldn't be any cameras today, nothing to capture a memory. Since the day it was invented it has had a great impact on society and the world. The innovation of the camera allowed many to capture images and moving pictures at an instant changing history and the way we see it today.

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