Replaced with wet collodion negatives and positive paper prints that dominate photography next 25 years. August: American Eadweard Muybridge develops a fast shutter that aids him in making ...

The book began as an appendix to another book, which was never written. Back in 2004 I thought that book should have a brief ...

This course is conceived as an introductory survey of photography from its beginning in 1839 through 2014. The material is organized around the motivations of individual photographers and the ...

In the early 1880s, large kites became a relatively inexpensive platform for aerial photography. Long strings of large kites were eventually coupled together to carry heavy camera equipment ...

A spread from Bystander, featuring an image by Joel Meyerowitz taken on W. 46 St., New York City, 1976 Bystander: A History of Street Photography by photographer Joel Meyerowitz and curator/teacher ...

Grounded in the idea that photography is a social practice as well as an art form, this course will present a range of events and objects selected from the history of photography. This survey is to be ...

While Levi Hill supposedly invented color photography in the 1850s, it was the Lumiere brothers who devised the first commercially viable photographic process. National Treasure: Amelia Earhart ...