Category: History

  • Beginnings of Photography

    (edited from Wikipedia various) The word “photography” was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtos), genitive of φῶς (phōs), “light” and γραφή (graphé) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”. Wikipedia links:  History of photography History of the camera Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently. Hercules Florence,…

  • Gilpin’s Theory of the Picturesque

    Gilpin’s Essay on Prints (1768) defined picturesque as “a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture” (p. xii).  Gilpin began to expound his “principles of picturesque beauty”, based largely on his knowledge of landscape painting. During the late 1760s and 1770s Gilpin travelled extensively in the summer holidays…

  • Colour Photography

    Wikipedia to be properly edited with links Main article: Color photography Color photography was possible long before Kodachrome, as this 1903 portrait by Sarah Angelina Aclanddemonstrates, but in its earliest years the need for special equipment, long exposures and complicated printing processes made it extremely rare. A photographic darkroom withsafelight Color photography was explored beginning…