For our class assignment due this Friday we are required to capture photos of ruin in our surroundings. Interestingly enough the first photograph was taken in 1827 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce*. Many of the photographs of the time clearly demonstrate things that we have studied in class. From ruin, both of pictures of ruins and of the once pristine photos degrading due to age, also the picturesque, with pictures often centering on things that lacked clean lines, and may have been called ugly but for the artistic expression.
*http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.
One of the earliest remaining photographs, clearly demonstrating, both the picturesque with the content, and ruin with state of the photo. *http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/early-photography.html
