Once upon a time, there was no photography. People who wanted pictures of themselves or of anything had to commission artists to draw them; and hope that the artists got what they were required to draw right. Sometimes the artists did draw what was an approximately accurate depiction of what they were commissioned to draw. Sometimes, they got it ‘less’ than right. In whichever case though, the artists own biases were always bound to show up in the depictions. All that changed in 1826, when photography was discovered. It became possible, for the first time, to have ‘exact pictures’ of people and scenes: pictures whose objectivity was never in question.
Unfortunately, the early pictures were in black and white. Thus while they got the layouts of the people or scenes they were supposed to capture right, they tended to miss out on an important element: color.
Now one thing that people had always wanted a depiction of (to be recorded for posterity) was their wedding scenes. This was understandable, for to many people, their weddings were amongst the most important events of their lives. So when the possibility of having their weddings photographed came up in 1826, many people found something worth making a part of the ceremonies.
The only drawback with early wedding photography, as indeed all early photography (and as alluded to earlier) was that it tended to be in black and white. This was off-putting – though tolerable in the absence of anything else – for weddings are associated with color and pomp, and there was simply no way of capturing this in black and white wedding photography.
So it was with great relief, in wedding photography circles, that the development of color photography in the early 20th century was greeted.
Thanks to the application of color photography in wedding photography, it became possible to depict realistic-looking wedding scenes. Thus all the color and pomp that comes with a wedding (and which the bride, particularly, gets very much flattered with), was finally possible to capture and store for posterity. Indeed, looking at elements of wedding photography from the era preceding the development of color photography, and those after the development of the same shows a great improvement. It is true, in most western wedding settings, that the groom tended to be dressed in black, and the bride in white. But thanks to color photography, the background against which all this was taking place was now to be captured and stored for posterity.
Thanks to the application of color photography in wedding photography (and the realism it made possible), we suddenly started to find couples that wouldn’t have cared too much about wedding photography becoming interested in it. In this way, it soon emerged that unlike the previous situation, where wedding photography was something that certain couples could afford to do without, it now become an integral part of the wedding ceremonies: one that many couples could simply forego on their ‘big day.’
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