The art critic Robert Hughes once said: “People write their history, their beliefs, their attitudes, their desires and their dreams into the images that they they create. » When talking about the mediums of photography and cinema, this belief of Hughes is not very difficult to understand and understand. Images, whether still or moving, can transport their audience to places they have never been before or to which they long to return. Images have been transporting audiences for centuries through photography and cinema, and together they have undergone many changes and evolutions. When these two mediums are carefully examined, it is acceptable to say that they will forever be linked and have been interdependent forms of art, communication and entertainment since Thomas Edison successfully invented the first kinetoscope in 1894. Photography itself, along with the photographic aspects of cinema (cinematography), has influenced our society for decades and has literally shaped the rhythm of our lives, changed what we think about and even what we think with. Looking through a viewfinder and lens to capture a single moment doesn't take much expertise; It’s really a simple thing to do. However, if a person truly appreciates the art of photography, they take their time and focus on the object, person or event they are trying to capture in order to find its true meaning and do justice to the subject. 'picture. “The professional photographer tries, when taking a photograph, to choose a moment which will persuade the viewer to attribute to it an appropriate past and future. The photographer's intelligence or empathy with the subject defines for him what is appropriate. Yet, contrary to the narrative... middle of paper ... Understanding Movies, Eighth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1999. Neale, Steve. Cinema and technology: image, sound, color. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. Petro, Patrice. ed. Fugitive images From photography to video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Ross, Steven J. ed. Films and American society. Malden: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2002. Rossell, Deac. Living images; The origins of films. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Willis, Anne-Marie. Photography and cinema, characters in history. Ed. Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman. Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. Burns, Paul T. The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography http://www.precinemahistory.net/htm. 2007.