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Light hitting chemicals or sensors, so memory doesn't have to try as hard.
means A picture captured by a camera, recording light as an image.
from Short for 'photograph,' built from Greek roots photo- (light) and -graph (writing or drawing) — so literally 'light-writing.' The full word was coined in the 1800s as chemical cameras emerged; the clipped 'photo' followed soon after, as people tend to shorten whatever they end up saying constantly.
- origin
- Greek for light, invented before flattery filters
- first ever
- 1826, exposure took eight hours
- irony
- makes moments permanent by freezing them dead
- today
- over a trillion taken yearly, most never viewed again