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

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 ...

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 ...

"The more we release things that are not known, the more we learn about our own history." The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York until 20 July ...