Tag: black and white
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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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Shirley Baker
Images on Mary Evans Picture Library Google Images Shirley Baker, (1932-2014), was one of the rare female photographers who chronicled life in the north of England from the 1950s onwards. Her street photography was in the ‘flaneuse’ tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, whom she named as influences. Unposed snapshots of people going about their business…