... a small opening or lens in one side which was known to the ancient world as early as Aristotle and Leonardo da Vinci in the fourth century B.C. (Meggs 1998, p.135). As scientific discoveries grew over thousands of years, so did the development of photography. In 1826, Frenchman Joseph Niepce's was the first to obtain a faint photographic image (fig. 2), fulfilling "an ancient ... that was modernising due to these new systems of representation, which were becoming accessible (Dyer 1998, p. 64). Developments in the science in photography helped create "the vitality of this graphic revolut...

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