Category: History
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Photobooks: Inspiration
Types of Photobook Surveys and catalogues catalogues for exhibitions ‘Survey’ publications draw together a collection of individual images or a group of practitioners working in a similar area. Some surveys seem more didactic or directed at the art market, such as 50 Photographers You Should Know (2008), Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (2009), reGeneration: 50 Photographers…
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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,…
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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…