The invention of photography as we know it in the modern world today is one which not one person can solely be praised for as many generations ha

Photography is important in defining the modern era as its power of revealing things which are invisible to the naked eye and which specialists alone had been able to perceive; and its power of confronting everyone with images of unknown people and places, of strange and thought provoking situations, of exceptional events (Wooley 1974, p. 72). By steadily enlarging the field of knowledge and awareness, photography directly modified the traditional value of human experience (Daval 1982, p. 83). Till the advent of the camera people had lived narrow lives, knowing nothing about the world beyond the bounds of local experience and personal relationships (Horenstein 2001, p. 99). People began to see more and more of what they would never actually experience with momentous consequences, “it reduced everything to the same scale, and limited to the delineration of appearances”

Further development in this use of colour, and advances in “photographic adaption of images to gravure and lithographic processes” (Hollis 1991, p. 292), saw a huge boom in illustrated posters in the late 1880s and 1890s. This process called chromolithography “had vast social and economic ramifications” (Meggs 1998, p. 147). This new system of representations affordability meant that advertising graphics of every description, “poured from the presses in millions of impressions each year” ( Meggs 1998, p. 147). This only furthered the development of advertising that was modernising due to these new systems of representation, which were becoming accessible (Dyer 1998, p. 64).

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