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A 19th century black and white photographic of a woman with a flowers.
The earliest known surviving product of process, 1825. It is an ink on paper print and reproduces a 17th-century Flemish engraving showing a man leading a horse.
A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. The word photograph was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek meaning "lights", and "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light".[1] Many jurisdictions have laws prohibiting certain types of photographs which may include photos of government buildings,[2] copyrighted content,[3] private property, and child pornography.