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Trivia Night You Might Recognize Me From This shy guy starred as Darrin Stephens in what popular primetime TV series Answer Shy guy Dick York starred as Darrin Stephens in Bewitched. It can be said that photography was not “invented”,. b. ut that it “evolved over time”…. Writing . W. ith Light. The word photography comes from two Greek words that mean “writing with light.”. The History of Photography. Depending on what you consider a camera or photograph to be, photography can date back either a few hundred years or much longer than that. . Anyway you slice it, the history of photography is filled with interesting tales and is quite dramatic. . The word photography comes from the Greek words . photos . and . g. raphos. that mean ”light” and “drawing." The first time the word "photography" was used was in 1839 by Sir John Herschel, captured here by British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, the year the invention of the photographic process was made public.. Photo I. Beginnings of Photography. Camera . Obscura. – . “. dark chamber. ”. Described first by 10. th. century Arabian scholar . Alhazen. How a camera . obscura. works. When light passes through hole it bends or REFRACTS. of Photography. Maryland Institute College of Art 2002. Image from www.visuallee.com.