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Looking Inth 19Th Century

From research I have gathered I will attempt to explain why I think the ‘process of looking' acquired such significance in the 19th Century.
There were many contributing factors, ranging from the early 1800's through to the present day. However the most important and most significant being industrialisation and the development of new technologies in the 19th century.

Because cultures and social behaviour was changing industrialisation was introduced to main cities, which increased the amount of workers being moved in to fill the workloads. People who would have normally lived out their days working on farms and other agricultural jobs found themselves moving to the city to become machinists and factory workers. People found themselves earning more money and living very different lives to what they had in the country. An increase in people, buildings/architecture, art, photography and sculpture was to follow.

One of the most significant changes to take place in the 19th century, which was to make a massive impact in the way people looked at their surroundings was the invention of photography.

From the beginning of time people have been fascinated with the ability to encapsulate and perpetuate the living into the form of an image. We can trace back drawings of animals in caves to the last stages of the Paleolithic era, about 20,000 years ago.
It was not until 1826 that Niepce took the very first photograph using a camera. The photograph was taken from the window of his Paris home of a nearby pigeon house and barn. Niepce called his pictures "Heliographs," which were exposed on pewter plate measuring 8 inches by 6 inches, that had been sensitized with bitumen. The agonizing exposure would sometime take up to eight hours. Niepce formed a partnership with Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre to continue the "New Art". Unfortunately, Niepce died of a stroke in 1833 and left Daguerre to perfect the New Art all by himself.
Daguerre alone perfected the finally...