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National Tsing-Hua University Photography Club Photography 102 Course Handouts, ©2005, origin2 2005-06 年度 Camera: A Photographical Black Box — What IS Photography? What we nowadays called photography is a process that we used to capture images that we see in a certain way, either through a lens or just by our bare eye. The process is not limited in any sense, as long as it follows George Eastman’s Imaging Chain diagram. The essential spirit of photography is hard to tell, it could be journal, artistic, documentary, or anything else that pops into your mind. But eventually it is an image capturing process, which means that you have to deal with the lights, and you need some kind of equipment or means that allows you to do that—capture the image. And the camera is been brought out for that sole purpose. The Spirit of Photography: before, now and then We the human are visual animals which conceive the world mainly by our eyes, which is a light sensing device, via the reflected lights into our eyes. Things we saw formulates images in our brain, and were perceived by our consciousness to be a specif