People would always love to preserve pictures of their present for the future. As a result, they needed to spend long time staring somewhere and waiting for their artist to create their painting. Therefore, people had always looked for a way to get pictures without the long and tedious work of an artist.
Photography is the result of combining several different technical discoveries. It been said, long before the first photographs were made, some philosophers and mathematicians described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.