This document summarizes how family photography has evolved over time from ancient paintings and carvings, to early portrait photography requiring professional equipment and development, to modern digital photography where photos can be instantly captured, edited, and shared worldwide through social media and mobile devices. Key developments included reduced production costs making photography available to more people, film replacing plates, color photography, digitization allowing storage and editing on computers, and the internet enabling global sharing. Proper copyright management of shared photos is also discussed.

1. Sharing Memories: Family Photos in the modern age Web207 - Kim L.

2. Sharing family memories is a part of everyday life. Within seconds, it is possible to snap a picture and share with friends & family online and in real time...

4. But it wasn't always this way... To appreciate where we are today, we need to review the past...

7. Artworks took time to create and were not easily reproduced.

8. Were seen as historical keepsakes.

10. This Christian image was painted around 1320-1330 by Giotto di Bondone.

11. Over time, society evolved... Portrait production costs reduced, and it became popular for the wealthy to record their place in society...

14. In the mid 1800s an important discovery occurred.. Photography!

16. process, invented in

17. 1839.

18. Scientific process to

19. capture a scene.

20. Was not originally seen as artistic.

21. Photography equipment was expensive and restricted to professionals.

23. Although unique images, copies can be produced by re-daguerreotyping the original.

25. Film and negative photography became more popular and production costs reduced.

26. This image shows the Kodak 3A Autographic camera.

27. Eventually the cost of photographic equipment became cheaper... This allowed photography for the Masses!

29. Equipment was cheap and readily available.

30. Film processing was available over-the-counter at film processing stores.

32. My parents wedding, 21 st December, 1974.

33. Mass amateur photography also saw different styles emerge – from posing to... Everyday “SNAPSHOTS”

35. Digitisation: The next stage for photography... Computers + Photography = Digital Photography Revolution

37. Allow duplication and perfect copies, without charge.

38. Special software allows editing of images.

40. the cost and need for

41. developing film.

42. Images can be reviewed

43. immediately via viewfinder

44. embedded in back of camera.

45. Images can then be downloaded to computer without the need or expense of processing film.

47. The Internet: Allows text and images to be shared via WWW and email, anywhere in the world.

49. Users contribute as well as share.

50. Examples of social media platforms include Facebook & Flickr.

51. Digital Photography + Web2.0 Platform + User Interaction = Convergence (in it's most basic form)

53. to be taken

54. “on-the-go”

55. in virtually

56. any location.

57. Internet access

58. allows the photo

59. to be uploaded and shared instantly via social networking or photo-sharing platforms.

61. Share & Protect what is yours with Creative Commons licensing - http://www.creativecommons.org

62. Always check the terms & conditions of social media platforms to ensure you retain ownership of your images!

64. In earlier periods cost and technologies limited the availability.

65. Over time, barriers were eroded until photography became part of the everyday life.

66. With digitisation and convergence, family memories can be shared instantly around the world.

67. Manage reproduction rights with creative commons copyright.

69. This slideshow was created for Web207 in SP1, 2011, by Kim L.

70. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.