What do I want from a history of photography now? That’s what I was asking myself as I went through the International Center of Photography show “ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019,” the ...

Ottewill’s Double-Folding Camera, 1853, U.K., shown open. ©Michael Pritchard, A History of Photography in 50 Cameras SHARE Pritchard, despite calling himself a “technological determinist,” still ...

In modern times we take cameras for granted. Most of us carry them around in our pockets all the time and have the ability to take sharp, true-to-life photos and video any time we want and share those ...

The history of photography has never followed a straight continuum. Since before the time of Vermeer, artists and scientists have labored at different times and in different locations around the globe ...

Her seminal works brought scholarship to the field and helped develop appreciation for it as a creative art form. By Katharine Q. Seelye Naomi Rosenblum, who wrote about the history of photography and ...

Photography has come a long way since ancient philosophers discovered camera obscura—a darkened enclosure with an aperture for light to pass through that projects objects upside-down onto a screen.

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We all think we know what photographs are, and why we have them. Photographs are everywhere. For the past 150 years they have penetrated, entangled and perhaps defined almost every area of human ...

Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce produces first permanent photograph of a view from nature. Uses the photosensitivity of bitumen of Judea. January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal ...

Photography books can be powerful tools. They can teach you to capture your favorite moments, provide tips on sparking creativity, or show you some of the most memorable moments in history. And they ...