The Invention of Digital PhotographyPhotography 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 unique moment like no other medium. What makes it even more unique is that photography has only been around for a few decades, which is unlike any other medium. He has made incredible progress since the day he was discovered. In the words of Gordon Baldwin and Martin Jürgens in their book Looking At Photographs, "Cameras have undergone almost infinite permutations, from the tiny wooden crates built and used in the mid-1830s by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) ), and which they call mouse traps, to the electronic wonders of the present” (quote this). Cameras have advanced in a very short time, from the Camera Obscura, invented by William Henery Fox Talbot, to the digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson (paraphrase). The most incredible advancement 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 who worked 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 half-ready, 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 ......ography. Digital photography has become the most accessible form of photography to date. There are digital cameras everywhere; in phones, iPods and computers. Digital files can be directly transferred over the Internet from the same device on 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. “Distinctions and awards 2006.” Journal of the Photographic Society of America (2006): 72. Rosenthal, Phil. “The survival of businesses depends on how the future will develop.” Chicago Tribune (2012).