The rise of photography began in the early 1830s in France and was not very popular as most artists preferred brush and canvas to a new device not popular and had not yet been produced locally or globally and it was quite expensive to try to produce it, and it has been debated ever since whether photography deserved its place in the art world. In the late 1800s and early 1900s its popularity grew and over time photography went from being ill-received to a new art form, although people around the world still debate whether it really is " art". Photography has a long history, from the first camera obscura in the 18th century to the latest Nikon or Canon camera in the 21st century. Its origins date back to 1800s France, where the camera obscura was invented, and to the late 1820s and 1830s, where a French inventor named Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, invented the first camera and printed the first photograph on paper he is also credited with taking the first photograph1, but he was not the only one working on this new invention, there were many others during this time period inventing different parts and improving the camera with each invention . It took time and many different inventors over the years to create a process where you could turn a negative into a photo. Towards the end of the 1800s photography was becoming more and more popular due to the fact that more and more families wanted to make portraits and could not afford an artist for a sitting or could not sit for such long periods, although this was not very favorable because it was so fragile and expensive to use and carry around. "The advent of photography served as a catalyst in challenging the realist tradition that had predominated since the days of the Ren...... middle of paper... in these images that an ordinary person with a Nikon point-and-shoot camera may not be able to produce, just as a person may not be able to reproduce a work of art by Michelangelo. The world of photography, just like that of art, is changing rapidly but somehow remains the same over time. They are two of the many different types of artistic medium. Works cited. -265. “Art Journal”. 2 Davies, Denny, Horfrichter, Jacobs, Roberts, Simon “Summary, Photography, Chapter 26 Progress and its Dissatisfiers: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Art-Nouveau 1880 - 1905” (2007): page 943 “Janson's History of Art – The Modern World”. 3 Greenspun, Phillip “History of Photography Timeline” (January 2007): “Online Document ”