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AbstractIntroduction Introduction to abstraction Defining the abstract Abstraction before abstraction and unintentional abstracts Abstraction before abstraction Photographic test strips Abstraction in art Abstract paintings Abstraction in photography Early examples of photographic abstraction Photograms and abstraction Experimental photography Abstract realism Abstract realism Contemporary abstraction Contemporary examples of photographic abstraction Photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism Alfred Stieglitz: Equivalents Heinrich Heidersberger: Rhythmograms *** Denis Brihat: Abstractions of form Lotte Jacobi: Photogenics Harry Callahan: Abstracts Minor White: Equivalents, similes and visual metaphors Carl Chiarenza: The nature of Abstraction Jaroslav Rössler: Abstractions *** György Kepes: Abstractions Heinz Hajek-Halke: Experimental photography Milos Korecek: Abstractions (Fokalke) Ladislav Postupa: Experimental vision *** Herbert Strässer: Abstracts - Foto-Grafik Henry Holmes Smith: Colour abstractions Barbara Kasten: Polaroid polacolor prints Don Jim: Urban Artifax Ellen Carey: Pulls Thomas Ruff: Substrat Concluding thoughts Conclusions on abstract photography
Abstraction of scaleIntroduction Abstractions of scale Abstraction of the small Abstraction of the large Abstraction and the loss of scale Abstractions of scale with landscapes Photographers Minor White: Equivalents, similes and visual metaphors Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee
Abstraction of the realExamples Abstraction of the real Patterns Abstraction of the real: Repetition Abstraction of the real: Irregularity Abstraction of the real: Round Colour Abstraction of the real: Colour Photographers Wilson A. Bentley: Photomicrographs of snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley: Frost *** Berenice Abbott: Science Aaron Siskind: Chicago Aaron Siskind: Gloucester Toni Schneiders: Form *** Josef Sudek: Glass Labyrinths Peter Keetman: Abstraction of the real *** Ludwig Windstosser: Abstraction of the real Elsa Thiemann: Abstractions of the real *** Mario Giacomelli: On Being Aware of Nature (Presa di coscienza sulla natura) Brett Weston: Abstraction of the real Lucien Clergue: Language of the sands (Langage des sables) Michael Jackson: Poppit Sands (2007-)
Abstraction of lightIntroduction Light is the shape and play of my thought Abstractions with light Tamers of light Vorticism Vorticism Photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism Jaromir Funke: Abstract compositions Arthur Siegel: Lucidagrams Arthur Siegel: Light abstractions *** Henry Holmes Smith: Light Study (taken 1946, later colour prints) *** Peter Keetman: Abstractions of light David Douglas Duncan: Prismatics Abelardo Morell: Light abstractions Werner Schnelle: Light Works Michael Jackson: Luminograms (2015)
AdvertisingAdvertising and commercial photography The distinction between commercial photography and advertising Advertising photography Advertising that includes photographs Photography as an Advertising Medium (1859) Advertising by daguerreotypists Advertising for Daguerreotypists Labels for Daguerreotypists Marketing: Business cards of Daguerreotypists Examples of advertising Cartes de visite: Advertising for photographers Cartes de visite: Advertising Ranger & Austen: Clairvoyant Medical Examinations - Buffum & Cleveland Contemporary uses of cartes de visite for employment Cabinet cards: Advertising Stereoviews: Advertising Robinson & Roi: The Famous Glass Dress - Royal Robe of Princess Eulalia Sutherland sisters Brand Frères: Album des eaux minérales et bains de mer de Belgique (ca 1862-1872) *** I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880) Banner girls and ladies Seeking a wife (1881) New York facades shown in cabinet cards Sports cards and cigarette cards Gelatin silver prints: Advertising Products Advertising for cigarettes *** Documentation of advertising and marketing initiatives Documenting window and shop displays Photographers Margaret Watkins: Advertising Edward Steichen: Advertising J. Pécsi: Photo und Publizität - Photo and Advertising (1930) Ringl & Pit: Advertising Herbert Matter: Advertising Adolf Lazi: Advertising Hans Finsler: Advertising and commerical photography *** A. Hameryckx: Advertising and commercial photography *** Victor Keppler: Advertising Jaroslav Rössler: Advertising *** Lejaren à Hiller: Surgery through the Ages Nickolas Muray: Advertising
Advertising albumsIntroduction Introduction to advertising albums Photographers Brand Frères: Album des eaux minérales et bains de mer de Belgique (ca 1862-1872) *** I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880)
AerialIntroduction Aerial photography Early examples James Wallace Black: Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It Aerial images and fine art Manfred Curry: A travers les nuages (ca. 1932) *** William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia David Maisel: Oblivion Emmet Gowin: Aerial photographs *** Gábor Kerekes: Over Rosswell (2002-2005) Satellite imagery Satellite and space station imaging
Aerial photographyExamples Aerial photography Balloon flights Balloon flights Nadar: Balloon flights Cecil Victor Shadbolt: Ballooning and aerial photography in Great Britain and France Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897) George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons *** Eduard Spelterini: Aerial views Airplane flights Alfred G. Buckham: Aerial photography Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940) Rudolf Koppitz: Aerial photography *** Bradford Washburn: Aerial photography William A. Garnett: Aerial photography *** William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia David Maisel: Oblivion Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography First World War (1914-1918): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Second World War (1939-1945): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Satellite Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project
Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photographyIntroduction Introduction to aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Wars First World War (1914-1918): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Edward Steichen (compiler): Album of photographs by the Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) (1918-1919) Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Second World War (1939-1945): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Justification for the Iraq War (2003-2011)
Balloons, airships and dirigiblesExamples Balloon flights Airships Photographers Nadar: Balloon flights S.A. King: Balloon flights James Wallace Black: Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It Cecil Victor Shadbolt: Ballooning and aerial photography in Great Britain and France The wedding of Margaret Buckley and Edward T. Davis (27 September 1888) Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897) Eduard Spelterini: Aerial views Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928) Archaeology Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s) *** Events The wedding of Margaret Buckley and Edward T. Davis (27 September 1888) Disasters Hindenburg disaster (6 May 1937) Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Balloons
Kite photographyIntroduction Kite photography Photographers George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons ***
Satellite imagingIntroduction Satellite and space station imaging Satellite imagery with data layers Satellite imagery and humanitarian survelliance Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project Satellite imagery and fine art Gábor Kerekes: Over Rosswell (2002-2005)
ArchitectureIntroduction Introduction to architecture Architectural acoustics Franz Max Osswald: Sound photographs in architectural models, from Franz Max Osswald's applied acoustics laboratory at ETH Zurich (1930-1933) Early examples A world of roofs Calvert Richard Jones: Daguerreotype: Margam Castle, Wales Mission Héliographique Achille Quinet: Restoration of the Royal Chaalis Abbey William and Mary Howitt: Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain (1862) William Howitt: Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland, Second Series (1864) Scotland Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow Archibald Burns: Edinburgh England Philip Henry Delamotte: The Crystal Palace (1854-1855) Robert Henry Cheney: The country houses and architecture of England (1850s) Arthur James Melhuish: Windsor and Windsor Castle (1854-1856) *** The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London Harry Gedford Lemere: National Photographic Record and Survey (ca 1900) *** Frederick Henry Evans: England, Kelmscott Manor Roger Mayne: Wapping France France: Paris - Notre Dame France: Paris - Notre Dame, Facade France: Paris - Notre Dame, La Porte Rouge Charles Marville: France: Paris Édouard Baldus: France: Paris Delmaet & Durandelle: The Paris Opera (1861-1875) Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg (attributed): Élysée Palace, Paris (ca. 1867) Albert Fernique: Ecole centrale des arts et manufactures (1875) *** Louis-Émile Durandelle and Albert Chevojon: Grand Hotel Terminus-Saint Lazare, Paris (1889 or later) *** Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris Belgium Edmond Fierlants: Belgium: Architecture (1860s) *** Germany Leopold Ahrendts: Berlin Albrecht Meydenbauer: Photogrammetry August Sander: Cologne Hugo Schmölz: German architecture *** Bauhaus Italy Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Palaces Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal Spain Joan Martí Centellas: Barcelona Russia Albert Felisch: Russia, St. Petersburg Ivan Bianchi: Russia: St. Petersburg India Thomas Biggs: Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat (1866) James Fergusson: Illustrations of Various Styles of Indian Architecture (1869) *** John Henry Ravenshaw: Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions (1878) Australia Album of Sydney, N.S.W., Australia (1870) Unidentified photographer: The buildings of Sydney, N.S.W., Australia (1873) *** USA George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Edward Steichen: The Flatiron Albert Bardem: Construction of the Commercial National Bank, SW corner Martin and Wilmington Streets, Raleigh, NC (1912-1913) *** Lewis W. Hine: Empire State Building (1929-1931) Berenice Abbott: Changing New York Andreas Feininger: The architecture of New York Ezra Stoller: Architecture *** Julius Shulman: Architecture Frank Gohlke: Grain elevators Brazil Marcel Gautherot: The architecture of Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia Building types Skyscrapers Survey projects Historic American Buildings Survey - HABS USA, California William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia Robert Adams: The construction of suburbia Styles and movements Pictorialism and architecture Architectural details and modifications Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti Brassaï: Graffiti Aaron Siskind: Chicago Aaron Siskind: Gloucester Structures Doorways Arches Windows Gates *** Fountains Bridges, viaducts, trestles and jetties Cities in decay Roger Mayne: Leeds, slum clearance Photographers Bernd & Hilla Becher: Framework Houses (1959-1971) Candida Höfer: Architectural space Thomas Ruff: Architecture Thomas Kellner: Architecture Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theatres John Divola: Isolated Houses Techniques and processes Gelatin silver prints: Architecture Conclusions Conclusions on architecture
Religious architectureIntroduction Introduction to religious architecture Jewish architecture Jewish architecture *** Neil Folberg: Synagogues *** Christian architecture Christian architecture Frederick H. Evans: Cathedrals Islamic architecture Islamic architecture Juan Laurent: The Islamic architecture of Spain Mohammad Sadiq: Mecca (1880-1881) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje & Abd al Ghaffar: Pilgrimage to Mecca (1884-1885)
Christian architectureExamples Christian architecture Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem: Arch of Ecce Homo Specific religious buildings Italy: Rome: St. Peter's and the Vatican Italy: Rome: San Giovanni in Laterano (Archbasilica of St. John Lateran) France: Paris - Notre Dame France: Paris - Notre Dame, Facade France: Paris - Notre Dame, La Porte Rouge Scotland: Melrose Abbey Scotland: Rosslyn Chapel / Roslin Chapel Egypt: Saint Catherine's Monastery *** Photographers Hill & Adamson: Scotland: Roslin: Roslin Chapel - Rosslyn Chapel Edward Anthony: The Fulton St. Prayer Meeting, set of 12 views (1857) *** Henri Le Secq: Premier Cahier de lithophotographie (1853) *** Edmond Bacot: Christian architecture in France *** Roger Fenton: Christian architure in Great Britain William Russell Sedgfield: England: Cathedrals, abbeys and minsters *** Cundall & Delamotte: England: Fountains Abbey (1850s) *** Francis Heyland: Italy: Pavia: Carthusian Monastery of the Certosa (ca 1865) *** Carol Szathmari: Romania: Monastery and Cathedral of Curtea de Arges (1866) *** Cundall and Fleming: Belgium: Antwerp - Interiors showing Christian architecture (1866) *** Southworth and Hawes: Mount Auburn Cemetery Francis Frith: Canterbury *** Eugène Atget: Churches of Paris - L’Eglises de Paris [Portfolio] *** Frederick H. Evans: Cathedrals Josef Sudek: Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral *** Francis Bruguière: Cathedral montages *** Walker Evans: Churches ***
Islamic architectureExamples Islamic architecture Specific religious buildings Jerusalem: Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Constantinople - Istanbul: Santa Sophia Mosque Egypt: Cairo: Cemeteries and tombs of the Mamalukes India: Agra: Motee Masjid - Pearl Mosque *** India: Agra: Delhi: Jama Masjid Mosque *** Photographers Juan Laurent: The Islamic architecture of Spain Abdullah frères: Islamic architecture *** Mohammad Sadiq: Mecca (1880-1881) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje & Abd al Ghaffar: Pilgrimage to Mecca (1884-1885) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: Bilder aus Mekka (1889) H.A. Mirza & Sons: Views of Mecca and Medina (1907)
Rooms and their contentsIntroduction Introduction to rooms Windows Henry Fox Talbot: The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey *** Staircases Steps and staircases Rooms Sitting, living and dining rooms Kitchens Bedrooms Bathrooms and toilets Toilets Studios Furniture Mirrors and Windows Rooms on ships Dalmouth: Vues du paquebot "Cordillère" des Messageries maritimes (1895-1900) *** Eugène Atget Eugène Atget: Doorways Eugène Atget: Staircases ***
ArtIntroduction Introduction to art and photography Artists and photographers Artists at work The encounters between the London Daguerreotypist John Jabez Mayall and the artist John Turner (1847-1849) John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists Honoré Daumier: Prints and cartoons Edward Linley Sambourne: Photographs as a source for cartoons and illustrations How artists have portrayed lanternists, photographers and photography Photographers and photography in Japan depicted in art Grids Using grids to create art *** Drawing and optical devices Drawing and optical devices Camera lucida: Design and use The camera lucida Camera obscura: Design and use Portable camera obscura Cliché-verre Cliché verre Associating photography with the arts Cartes de visite: Backs: Graphics that place photography with the arts Cabinet cards: Backs: Graphics that place photography with the arts Publications that did, or said they did, use daguerreotypes as the basis for their illustrations The influence of the daguerreotype upon art Paris et ses Environs Reproduits par le Daguerrotype, Sous la Direction de M. Ch. Philipon (Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, 1840) Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842) Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844) Bruges, ses Monuments et ses Tableaux, edited by Daveluy (Bruges, Daveluy, 1855) Using photography to copy two dimensional artworks Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: Cardinal d'Amboise Photographing art: Works on paper and canvas William Sterling: Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Notice of an Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Printing works for photographic reproductions Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: reproductions of works of art Adolphe Braun - A Continental Printing Establishment (1874) Microphotographs of art Art and microphotographs Copyright of photographs of artworks International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (17 August 1888) International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (24 August 1888) International Copyright of Photographs - Judgement - Messrs. Braun and Co. (21 September 1888) Photographic art Cartes de visite: Art Photographing sculpture Photographing art: Sculpture Use of photography as an aid to art Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843) Oil paintings by Gustave Courbet based upon photographs Julien Vallou de Villeneuve: Étude d'après nature, modèle pour Les Baigneuses Alphonse Marie Mucha: Artist studies - Académies Académies and the use of artist studies of models to assist artists Artistic studies of nude women Eugène Durieu: Artist studies - Académies Vincenzo Galdi: Artist studies - Académies Artistic studies of nude men Jacques de Lalaing: Using photographs to create art *** Giraudon's artist: Rural studies Combining a daguerreotype with a miniature to create a painting (1848) Painting on photographs Introduction to painting on photographs Visual connections between art and photography Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa Photographs based on known paintings Painted photographs by known artists Aestheticism Thomas Eakins: The Swimming Hole Edgar Degas: After the Bath Georg Hendrik Breitner: Using photography as an aid to painting Photographs that are stylistically similar to paintings Dora Maar: Photo Report of the Evolution of “Guernica” (May - June 1937) Saul Leiter: Painted nudes Neil Folberg: The French Impressionists Robert Weingarten: Palettes (2004-2008) *** Portraiture and art The "artistic" portrait Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Two Ways of Life Mimicing art within Pictorialism Paints in tubes Preserving paint in collapsible tubes The connections between photography and landscape art Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The road to Chailly (Forests of Fontainebleau) Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The Bodmer Oak (Forests of Fontainebleau) Using Autochromes for early colour art photography Autochromes: Art Artists of the twentieth century and photography Salvador Dali Photographers who have taken portrait series on artists Photography as a means of documenting art Land art Conceptual photography Performance art Looking at art Looking at art Exhibitions Exhibitions on the relationships between art and photography Conclusions Conclusions to art and photography
AppropriationIntroduction Introduction to appropriation Examples Appropriation *** Photographers Andy Warhol: Appropriation Richard Prince: Appropriation Robert Heinecken: Appropriation Sherrie Levine: Appropriation Robert Silvers: Photomosaics Daniele Buetti: Appropriations and manipulations *** Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968–2008 Thomas Allen: Uncovered
Artist studies - AcadémiesIntroduction Studie - Etude and the avoidance of obscenity charges Académies and the use of artist studies of models to assist artists Artistic studies of nude women Artistic studies of nude men Photographers Louis Igout: Artist studies - Académies A. Calavas (editor): Artist studies - Académies Hermann Heid: Artist studies - Académies *** Eugène Durieu: Artist studies - Académies Julien Vallou de Villeneuve: Artist studies - Académies Julien Vallou de Villeneuve: Étude d'après nature, modèle pour Les Baigneuses Vincenzo Galdi: Artist studies - Académies Alphonse Marie Mucha: Artist studies - Académies Gaudenzio Marconi: Artist studies - Académies *** Thomas Eakins: The Swimming Hole Thomas Eakins: Using motion studies for artistic accuracy Eadweard Muybridge: The Human Figure in Motion Edgar Degas: After the Bath Georg Hendrik Breitner: Using photography as an aid to painting
Artists' booksPhotographers Ed Ruscha: Self-published books *** Ed Ruscha: Royal Road Test *** Ed Ruscha: Every Building on Sunset Strip *** Ed Ruscha: Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles ***
ConceptualIntroduction Conceptual photography Questions of identity Helmar Lerski: Portraits Claude Cahun: Self portraits Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills Samuel Fosso: Self portraits Lucas Samaras: Unpentant Ego / Photo-transformations Gillian Wearing: Album (2003) Nikki S. Lee: Projects Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India Sophie Calle: The intimacy of human behaviour Politcs and the message The relationships between photographs and text Appropriation and originality Introduction to appropriation Andy Warhol: Appropriation Sherrie Levine: Appropriation Richard Prince: Appropriation Robert Heinecken: Appropriation Questioning truth through appropriation Juxtaposing realities Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home William Laven: War Models John Divola: Evidence of Aggression - From Continuity Spatial forms Serge Tousignant: Spatial geometries *** John Pfahl: Landscapes *** Examinations of photohistory James Welling: Conceptual photography Narratives Duane Michels: The Spirit Leaves the Body (1968)
Fabricated realitiesIntroduction Introduction to fabricated realities Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds Mimicing art within Pictorialism Dioramas in Natural History Museums Landscapes: Fantasy Stereoviews Stereoviews: Diableries Incongruous backgrounds and inappropriate props Backgrounds: Incongruous Inappropriate studio props *** Legal implcations The Death of Chatterton Photographers Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Dioramas Bamforth & Co.: The Quarryman's Resolve (1900) Joan Fontcuberta: Fabricated sciences and alternative histories John Divola: Zuma *** John Divola: Continuity - Film set photographs of bars *** Sandy Skoglund: Installations and visions Laurie Simmons: Fabicated realities and the exploration of gender Roger Ballen: Shadow Chamber Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations and other series Thomas Demand: Three dimensional sculptural forms David Levinthal: Series Oliver Boberg: Distilled realities Carl Zimmerman: Cold City Lori Nix: Accidentally Kansas Paolo Ventura: Italian fabricated realities Thomas Allen: Uncovered Sarah Hobbs: Small Problems in Living Cortis & Sonderegger: Fabricated realities An early case of fraud using models Mrs. Gladys Maud Cockburn-Lange and her faked First World War dogfight photographs
Land artIntroduction Land art Photographers Andy Goldsworthy: Books Christo and Jean-Claude Richard Long: On-site sculptures Hamish Fulton: Long Walks Robert Smithson: On-site sculptures
MapsIntroduction Introduction to maps and photography American Civil War (1861-1865): Copying maps Cartes de visite: Maps Photographers John Henry Parker: Recent Excavations in Rome: Made in 1868 Henry W. Taunt: The River Thames (1872) Keystone View Company: Maps and Plans Accompanying Palestine Through the Stereoscope (1900) Underwood & Underwood: James Henry Breasted - Egypt Through the Stereoscope *** Jules Lejeune: Belgian amateur photographic diary (1920-1922) *** Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940)
Performance artIntroduction Performance art Photographers Zhang Huan: Performance art *** Tseng Kwong Chi: Self portraits *** Hamish Fulton: Long Walks
Photographing art - paintings and drawingsReproductions of works on canvas and paper Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: Cardinal d'Amboise Photographing art: Works on paper and canvas Leopold Robert (1794-1835, artist): "The arrival of the reapers in the Pontine marshes" (L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les marais Pontins) [with variants] *** William Sterling: Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Notice of an Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Companies selling reproductions of works of art in the nineteenth century Companies providing photographic reproductions of art in the nineteenth century Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: reproductions of works of art Adolphe Braun - A Continental Printing Establishment (1874) Microphotographs of art Art and microphotographs Commercial copying U.S. Treasury Note and National Bank Note Detector (1866) *** Copyright law in Great Britain - 1888 (Messrs. Braun and Co. vs. A.E. Whitehouse) International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (17 August 1888) International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (24 August 1888) International Copyright of Photographs - Judgement - Messrs. Braun and Co. (21 September 1888)
Photographing art - sculptureExamples Photographing art: Sculpture Photographers Adolph Schaefer: The Buddhist monument at Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia (1844-1845) Henry Fox Talbot: Bust of Patroclus Roger Fenton: The British Museum Stephen Thompson: British Museum Charles Nègre: Statues *** HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868) Fratelli Alinari: The statues of Florence L. Powers: Sculptures Powers Frères (Florence): Sculptures *** Alois Löcherer: The statue of Bavaria, Munich (1844-1850) Édouard Baldus: The Louvre, Paris (1856-1857) Bedford Lemere & Co.: Album No. 1, Photographs taken from Specimens in Royal Architectural Museum (ca 1872) *** Isabel Agnes Cowper: Mathematical models made in 1872 by Fabre de Lagrange of Paris, for the South Kensington Museum (1872) *** Armand Noyer: Napoleon [Series] Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome James Anderson: Sculptures *** Underwood & Underwood: Classical and Renaissance sculptures *** Paris-Stereo: Vues d'Italie (1920) *** Eugène Atget: Versailles *** Délié & Béchard: Album du Musée Boulaq Aristophot Co.: The Museum of the Three Dimensions, St. Petersburg (1905) *** Eugène Atget: Architecture: Door furniture and door knockers *** Edward Steichen: Rodin's statue of Balzac (1908) Constantin Brancusi: Documentation of sculpture Marcel Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (created 1915-1923) *** Using photography as an aid to sculpture François Willème: Photosculpture Henry Rox: Photosculptures *** Bust portraits Bust or statuette portraits Monuments The Lion of Lucerne (German: Löwendenkmal) *** New York City: The Statue of Liberty Paris: Arc de Triomphe World's Fairs and International Exhibitions Vienna, Weltausstellung, 1873 Wien Tableaux vivant Josef Jindrich Šechtl and Ignác Šechtl: Living statues *** Natural sculptures / Environment art Andy Goldsworthy: Books Richard Long: On-site sculptures Robert Smithson: On-site sculptures
PhotorealismIntroduction Introduction to photorealism
Tableau vivantIntroduction Introduction to tableaux vivants Mimicing art within Pictorialism Mrs Severn: Tableaux vivants (1854) Charles Dickens and tableau vivant Narratives Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Arthurian Photographers Henry Peach Robinson: Little Red Riding Hood C. Eckenrath: Hansel & Gretel *** Victor Albert Prout (attributed): Tableau vivant at the Braemare Gathering (August 1863) *** Lejaren à Hiller: Surgery through the Ages Josef Jindrich Šechtl and Ignác Šechtl: Living statues *** Carlos Ducoin: Tableau vivant (ca. 1900-1914)
CommercialIntroduction The distinction between commercial photography and advertising Commercial photography Australian commercial photography Richard Daintree: Images of Queensland (ca. 1870) American commercial photography U.S. Treasury Note and National Bank Note Detector (1866) *** Mathew Brady's Studio: Soap Factory Workers (ca 1860-1870) *** Margaret Bourke-White: Commercial advertising photography *** Margaret Bourke-White: Otis Steel Co. (1928-1929) Esther Bubley and Russell Lee: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1948) Robert Yarnall Ritchie: Commercial Modernist German commercial photography Georg Koppman: German arts and crafts - metalwork (1879) *** Albert Renger-Patzsch: Machine parts *** Albert Renger-Patzsch: Ruhrchemie factory, Oberhausen-Holten, Germany Albert Renger-Patzsch: Schubert & Salzer - Textile machinery - Ingolstadt Mannesmannröhrenwerke A. G., Komotau. 1888-1925; Neuanlagen und Umbauten, ab 1920 (ca. 1929) Peter Keetman: Volkswagen Factory, Wolfsburg (1953) French commercial photography François Kollar: Champagne (ca 1935) ***
DocumentaryIntroduction Documentary photography Documentary photography and the nature of time Documentary photography and advocacy Documentary photography and ethics Reportage Early examples of photo reportage City of Hamburg fire (1842) George N. Barnard: Oswego Mills (1853) Social commentary Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary Great Britain Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Joseph Cundall: Construction of the Great Eastern at John Scott Russell's Yard, Milwall (1855-1856) *** Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow Archibald Burns: Edinburgh Philip Henry Delamotte: The Crystal Palace (1854-1855) John Thomson: Street Life in London The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London Mass Observation (Great Britain) Nick Hedges: Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72 John Bulmer: The North of England Paul Graham: A1: The Great North Road Chris Killip: Seacoal Canada William Notman: The construction of Victoria Bridge, Montreal, Canada (1854-1859) France Charles Nègre: Vincennes Imperial Asylum (1859) Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862) Charles Marville: France: Paris Les Travaux Publics de la France (1878-1882) Delmaet & Durandelle: The Paris Opera (1861-1875) Louis-Emile Durandelle: Eiffel Tower (1887-1889) Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: Psychiatric hospitals (1954) Spain Martínez Sánchez: Public works in Spain (1860s) Juan Laurent: Public works in Spain (1860s) Portugal Emilio Biel: Construction of the Ponte Maria Pia in Porto (1876-1877) Emilio Biel: Caminho de Ferro do Douro (ca. 1890) USA Thomas Easterly: The Destruction of Big Mound (1853-1854) Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900) Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America Lewis W. Hine: Empire State Building (1929-1931) Margaret Bourke-White: Otis Steel Co. (1928-1929) Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) FSA - Farm Security Administration: Photographers FSA - Farm Security Administration: Examples FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour Berenice Abbott: Changing New York W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project Introduction to New York City Photo League Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders (1968) Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971) Larry Clark: Tulsa Larry Clark: Teenage Lust Documerica Project (1971-1977) Allan Sekula: Fish Story *** Integrity Image integrity in documentary photography and photojournalism Conclusions Tracking down the photographed Photosensitive Understanding the creation and dissemination of documentary photography Some thoughts on documentary photography and legacy
CatastrophesIntroduction Natural catastrophes Drought The Dust Bowl Black Blizzards Earthquakes Earthquakes USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers Famines Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878) Fires Fires Floods Floods in Nantes, France (1843) Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856) Hurricanes and typhoons Hurricanes USA, Hurricane Katrina China: Typhoon (September 1874) Volcanic eruptions Giorgio Sommer: Eruption of Vesuvius (1872) Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii USA, Washington, Mount St. Helens eruption (1980) Provoked by human activity Natural catastrophes provoked by human activity Concluding thoughts Thoughts on natural catastrophes
DroughtsThe Dust Bowl in the USA (1930s) The Dust Bowl Black Blizzards Arthur Rothstein: Cow skull in the Badlands Arthur Rothstein: Fleeing a dust storm
EarthquakesEarthquakes Earthquakes Alphonse Bernoud & Claude Grillet: Italy: Earthquake damage (1857-1858) Earthquake: San Francisco (1868) Earthquakes Ogawa Kazumasa: The Great Earthquake of Japan (1891) USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers Frederic Eugene Ives: San Francisco Earthquake (1906) ***
FaminesPhotographers Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878) Maxim Dmitriev: Lean years 1891-1892 in the Nizhny Novgorod province (1891-1892) ***
FiresFires Fires City of Hamburg fire (1842) George N. Barnard: Oswego Mills (1853) USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (25 March 1911) Norma Quintana: Forage from Fire (2017-2020)
FloodsIntroduction Floods Floods and the photographic evidence of survival amidst tragedy Floods in Nantes, France (1843) The Great Sheffield Flood (11 March 1864) *** Johnstown Flood (1889) Photographers Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856) J.N. Walton: View of Main St, Aurora, Ind. During the Flood. Feb 15th. 1883 *** J. Landy: The Flood of 1884 - Cincinnati, Ohio *** Margaret Bourke-White: Ohio River Flood (1937)
TsunamisPhotographers David Dare Parker: Tsunami, Banda Aceh, Indonesia *** Events Tsunamis: Japan ***
Volcanic eruptionsIntroduction Volcanoes and volcanic eruptions Italy Giorgio Sommer: Eruption of Vesuvius (1872) Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii USA USA, Washington, Mount St. Helens eruption (1980)
Civil engineeringIntroduction Introduction to civil engineering Germany Alois Löcherer: The statue of Bavaria, Munich (1844-1850) Great Britain Philip Henry Delamotte: The Crystal Palace (1854-1855) B.L. Spackman: Construction at the 1862 International Exhibition at South Kensington, England (1859-1862) France Édouard Baldus: Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (1860s) Édouard Baldus: Les chemins de fer du Nord. Ligne de Paris à Boulogne. Vues photographiques Delmaet & Durandelle: The Paris Opera (1861-1875) Les Travaux Publics de la France (1878-1882) Louis-Emile Durandelle: Eiffel Tower (1887-1889) Albert Fernique: Construction of the Eiffel Tower, Paris (1888) Construction du Chemin de Fer Metropolitan Municipal de Paris (1905-1910) Spain Martínez Sánchez: Public works in Spain (1860s) Juan Laurent: Public works in Spain (1860s) Portugal Emilio Biel: Construction of the Ponte Maria Pia in Porto (1876-1877) USA Daguerreotypes of canal construction (ca. 1850) *** Alexander Gardner and others: Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad Andrew J. Russell: The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent, Taken Along the Line of the Union Pacific Railroad, West from Omaha, Nebraska Wyoming: Dale Creek Crossing (1868-1901) Joseph P. Babbitt: Engineers and Surveyors on the Kansas City Bridge (1869) *** George M. Mowbray [stereoviews by H.D. Ward]: Tri-Nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel Submarine Blasting, Etc. (1872) Albert Bardem: Construction of the Commercial National Bank, SW corner Martin and Wilmington Streets, Raleigh, NC (1912-1913) *** Lewis W. Hine: Empire State Building (1929-1931) New York City: The Manhattan Bridge New York City: The Brooklyn Bridge Canada William Notman: The construction of Victoria Bridge, Montreal, Canada (1854-1859) Argentina Georges Poulet: Aurora Argentina (1890s) The Suez and Panama Canals Suez Canal (1859-1869) Panama Canal - First attempt (ca. 1885) *** Panama Canal - Second attempt (1904-1914) Structural forms Bridges, viaducts, trestles and jetties Road works, construction, maintenance and repair *** Structural steel ***
Crime and punishmentIntroduction Introduction to crime and punishment Crime Alphonse Bertillon (attributed): Album of Paris Crime Scenes Weegee: Books Weegee: Crime Wanted criminals Wanted criminals Courts Dorothea Lange: The Defendant, Alameda County Court House in Calfornia (1955-1957) *** Documentation Anthropometric records - Alphonse Bertillon system Alphonse Bertillon: Criminal Jean Greniche Killer of La Fille Wilhem, said La Chinoise American mugshots Description of Prisoners Received at the California State Prison, May 1909-December 1914 *** Punishment Unidentified photographer: [Eight Haitian “voodoo” devotees found guilty in February 1864 of the murder and cannibalism of a 12-year-old child] (1864) *** Portraits of the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln Execution of the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln Greece: The Dilessi Murders (1870) Photographers François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912 The execution of Ruth Synder (1929) Walker Evans: Prison work gang Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971) Executions Fine art and crime - a blending of narratives Clare Strand: Signs of a Struggle (2003) *** Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood
Crime scene photographyExamples Crime scene photography Crime scenes Alphonse Bertillon (attributed): Album of Paris Crime Scenes Sumner & Son (Northfield): The Aftermath of the Northfield Raid (1876) A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America Revisiting crime scenes Eva Leitolf: German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008
Domestic violencePhotographers Donna Ferrato: Living with the Enemy
Lynch photographyIntroduction A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America
MugshotsIntroduction Introduction to mugshots and rogues' galleries Alexander Doussin Dubreuil: Ireland: The Repeal Martyrs (1842-1845) The benefits of photographing criminals Science a Preservative from Crime (1853) The Weymouth Poisoning Case - Miss Mary Tirrell Disinterred (1860) Bristol City and County Gaol, Great Britain (1853) Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Prison Discipline - J.A. Gardner, Bristol Gaol (1863) Thomas Byrnes: Professional Criminals of America (1886) Composite portraits Making a composite portrait of a typical criminal (1879) Anthropometric studies Alphonse Bertillon: Criminal Jean Greniche Killer of La Fille Wilhem, said La Chinoise Mugshots Cartes de visite: Spanish criminals (ca. 1870) Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912 Prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 *** New South Wales. Police Dept. *** Description of Prisoners Received at the California State Prison, May 1909-December 1914 *** Mugshots: Police Department of Rochester, New York (1914-1929) *** Warden's book detailing prisoners received at California prison San Quentin, March 1935-December 1935 *** American mugshots The Holocaust: Women concentration camp guards *** Beijing Silvermine, Detention - 17 18 19 (1991-1993) *** The mugshot as evidence David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21)
Police and law enforcement photographyPhotography as an aid to detection The Weymouth Poisoning Case - Miss Mary Tirrell Disinterred (1860) J.E. Mayall: Use of cartes de visite to support police investigations The Pinkerton Detective Agency and photography Crime scene photography Alphonse Bertillon (attributed): Album of Paris Crime Scenes Wanted criminals Wanted criminals Bertillon anthrometric records Anthropometric records - Alphonse Bertillon system Crime prevention U.S. Treasury Note and National Bank Note Detector (1866) *** Hans Gross on photography and criminal investigation Hans Gross: Criminal Investigation (1906) - Importance of Photography from a judicial point of view. Hans Gross: Criminal Investigation (1906) - Particular cases of the employment of Photography. Hans Gross: Criminal Investigation (1906) - Recognition of Criminals from their Photographs.
PrisonsIntroduction Introduction to prisons and incarceration Alexander Doussin Dubreuil: Ireland: The Repeal Martyrs (1842-1845) Bristol City and County Goal, Great Britain Bristol City and County Gaol, Great Britain (1853) Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Prison Discipline - J.A. Gardner, Bristol Gaol (1863) Prison records and ledgers *** Prison inmates Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912 Walker Evans: Prison work gang Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971) David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21) Internment camps Internment camps in the USA during the Second World War Humour Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Prisons and prisoners *** Conclusions Conclusions on prisons
EvidenceIntroduction Evidence Science Charles Lyell on Niagara Falls (1845) Berenice Abbott: Science Crime Alphonse Bertillon (attributed): Album of Paris Crime Scenes The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres The Congo Atrocities Eva Leitolf: German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008 Religion George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) Jerusalem: Arch of Ecce Homo Social conditions The scourged back Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Mass Observation (Great Britain) David Goldblatt: In Boksburg *** Chid labour Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America Problems on interpretation A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) War The Battle of Gettysburg and photographic evidence (July 1863) François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian Armenian massacres (1915-1923) Henryk Ross: Lodz Ghetto, Poland (1943-1945) The Holocaust: Death camps Jeffrey Wolin: Written In Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust (1992-1994) Ronald Haeberle: The My Lai Massacre (16 March 1968) Issues of interpretation of building structures Jack Burman: KZ Justification for the Iraq War (2003-2011) Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project Evidence of torture in Syria (2014) Fine art photography and evidence - questioning truth Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood
HealthIntroduction Introduction to health Hospitals and asylums Charles Nègre: Vincennes Imperial Asylum (1859) Health tratments Dmitry Ermakov: Oriental massage Mental health and psychiatry Hugh Welch Diamond: Patients at Surrey County Asylum (ca. 1855) Insane asylum patients (1870s) James Crichton-Browne: West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Great Britain Albert Londe: Female patients with mental illness Joy Christiansen: Family Gathering Disability Picturing disability Documentary studies W. Eugene Smith: Minamata W. Eugene Smith: Nurse Midwife ***
AIDS - HIVPhotographers David Dare Parker: HIV, Thailand ***
Eating disordersPhotographers Joy Christiansen: Family Gathering
IndustrialIntroduction Introduction to industrial photography Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 (1852) Industrial design Introduction to Industrial design Humanity and the machine Lewis W. Hine: Power house mechanic working on steam pump Lewis W. Hine: Coal mines Lewis W. Hine: Cotton mills Albert Renger-Patzsch Albert Renger-Patzsch: Machine parts *** Albert Renger-Patzsch: Ruhrchemie factory, Oberhausen-Holten, Germany Albert Renger-Patzsch: Schubert & Salzer - Textile machinery - Ingolstadt W. Eugene Smith W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project Robert Yarnell Ritchie Robert Yarnall Ritchie: Commercial Modernist Health and safety Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (25 March 1911) Health and safety *** Environmental issues The landscapes of industry Globalization issues Allan Sekula: Fish Story *** Hunting for raw materials Charles H. Shute & Son (Edgartown, Mass.): Stereoscopic Views of a Whaling Voyage Industrial sites Henri-Victor Regnault: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory *** H.T. Clauder: Scenery in and around Bethlehem, Pa. [Series] *** Timothy O'Sullivan: The mines of Nevada (ca. 1868) *** J.C. Burrow: Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground scenes by flash-light (1893) Darius Kinsey: Forestry and logging in the American North-West (1906-1940) Darius Kinsey: Stereoviews of logging in to American North-West Mannesmannröhrenwerke A. G., Komotau. 1888-1925; Neuanlagen und Umbauten, ab 1920 (ca. 1929) Margaret Bourke-White: Otis Steel Co. (1928-1929) Unidentified photographer: Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Car repair shop *** Alexander Rodchenko: AMO Plant - Automobile Moscow Society, now ZIL (1929) *** Peter Keetman: Volkswagen Factory, Wolfsburg (1953) Roger Mayne: Wapping Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies Chen Jiagang: The Great Third Front Edward Burtynsky: Quarries Edward Burtynsky: China
Mining and extractionIntroduction Photography and mining Mining towns, infrastructure and impact Miners Introduction to oil and gas extraction Gold Rush Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) Alaskan Gold Rush (1896-1899) Mining in Bolivia Mining in Bolivia (1870s-1930s) *** Photographers Walter Woodbury: Australian goldfields (1850s) Antoine Fauchery & Richard Daintree: Australia: Goldfields in Victoria *** Lufkin: Lufkin's Photographic Views - Oil Regions of Pennsylvania *** West & Waddell: Stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania Oil Regions. (1860-1890) *** Henry Moulton: Rays of Sunlight from South America (1865) Timothy O'Sullivan: The mines of Nevada (ca. 1868) *** South Africa: Diamond mining areas around Kimberley and Griqualand-West *** Unidentified photographer: South African Gold Mining - Durban Roddepoort Deep Mine *** W. Kochne & Co.: Oilfields, Azerbaijan (ca 1883) *** Luis Boudat Ducollier: Album de las Salitreras de Tarapaca (1889) Roberto M. Gerstmann: Mining in Bolivia *** Carleton Eugene Watkins: Mining Claims, Butte County, Cal. J.C. Burrow: Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground scenes by flash-light (1893) Gustave Marissiaux: La Houillère (1904-1905) *** Lewis W. Hine: Coal mines Unidentified photographer: Im Pütt (1953) *** Robert Yarnall Ritchie: Commercial Modernist Bill Brandt: North Chris Killip: Seacoal Carl Uytterhaegen: Cité3 Edward Burtynsky: Quarries
Life stagesIntroduction Introduction to life stages Improving content on life stages Rights of passage Rights of passage
AdolescentsInformation requests Improving content on life stages Introduction Introduction to adolescence Photographers Larry Clark: Tulsa Larry Clark: Teenage Lust Diane Arbus: Adolescents *** Roger Mayne: Youth Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture Michelle Sank: Teenagers
BabiesInformation requests Improving content on life stages Introduction Introduction to babies Prams, buggies and strollers *** Taking photographs of babies Illustrations of nineteenth century photographic sessions *** Photographers Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits of Archie and other children Carte de visite Cartes de visite: Babies *** Hill & Saunders (Harrow): Two babies in a pram - Proof Cabinet cards Cabinet cards: Babies Death, post-mortem and memento mori Post-mortem and memento mori photographs of babies and children The Empty Crib. "We're nearer to the other shore Since the baby died." *** Themes Photocollages of babies *** Ethnographic portraits of babies *** Babies in the bath *** Babies on their potties *** Breastfeeding *** Adults as infants *** Documentary W. Eugene Smith: Nurse Midwife ***
ChildrenInformation requests Improving content on life stages Examples Children in nineteenth century photography Children in twentieth century photography Dressing babies and young boys Boys wearing dresses before they were breeched Involvement of children with photography The involvement of children and photography The "helping hand", "hidden mother" and "hidden father" portraits Pictorialism and the innocence of children Children in Humanistic Photography Protective influences Madonnas Sleeping children and protective angels Charity during the American Civil War: The Children of the Battlefield Emancipated slaves in the USA Thomas Barnardo: Children Reclaimed for LIfe Post-mortem and memento mori Post-mortem and memento mori photographs of babies and children Photographers Lewis Carroll: Portraits of children Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits of Archie and other children Clarence H. White: Ring Toss (1899) Lady Ottoline Morrell: Children cavorting at Garsington Wilhelm von Gloeden: Young girl with flowers Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America Andre Kertesz: Children *** W. Eugene Smith: Juanita Helen Levitt: Children of New York Roger Mayne: Youth Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture Loretta Lux: Children Hisaji Hara: A Photographic Portrayal of the Paintings of Balthus (2009) *** Photographing children Photographing children *** Watch-the-birdie
DeadInformation requests Improving content on life stages Introduction Introduction to the photography of death Examples Nineteenth century post-mortem and memento mori Post-mortem and memento mori photographs of babies and children Daguerreotypes: Post-mortem portraits Cartes de visite: Post-mortem portraits Cartes de visite: Memorial portraits Cabinet cards: Post-mortem and memorial portraits Marketing death Marketing: Root's Daguerrean Gallery (1853) Floral rememberances Floral memorials and floral wreaths Funerals Funerals *** Graveyards, cemeteries, gravestones and memorials Graveyards, cemeteries, gravestones and memorials Catacombs Catacombs Mourning clothing Mourning clothing Photographers Sumner & Son (Northfield): The Aftermath of the Northfield Raid (1876) Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian Nadar: Catacombs and subterranean Paris (1860s) Reminiscences of photographing the dead Ghastly Photographic Experiences (1882) Spirit photography Abraham Lincoln as a returning spirit Death and remembrance Death and remembrance during the First World War (1914-1918) The dead Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay, Jr. (1847) John Reekie: Collecting Remains of the Dead Victims of the Khodinsky Plain panic, Coronation Week, Moscow, Russia (1896) Nazi suicides in Leipzig, Germany (1945) Robert Wiles: Evelyn McHale after her suicide leap from the Empire State Building (1 May 1947) *** Ronald Haeberle: The My Lai Massacre (16 March 1968) Walter Schels: Life before Death The dead as artistic explorations Andreas Serrano: Morgue (1992) Jack Burman: The Dead Frank Rodick: Portraits (2012)
ElderlyInformation requests Improving content on life stages Introduction Introduction to the elderly Photographers Paul Nadar: Interview with Michel-Eugène Chevreul (8 September 1886) Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home Walter Schels: Life before Death
Middle ageInformation requests Improving content on life stages Motherhood Madonnas Photographers Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother Walker Evans: The Burroughs family
OccupationalIntroduction Introduction to occupationals Early photographs of occupations Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Salt prints: Occupations and roles Hill & Adamson: Newhaven Ambrotypes: Occupationals *** Albumen prints: Occupationals Cartes de visite: Occupations and roles Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles Stereoviews: Occupations and roles Real Photo Postcards: Occupations and roles *** Gelatin silver prints: Themes: Portrait: Occupationals *** John Thomson: Street Life in London John Thomson: China, a travelling chiropodist Joseph P. Babbitt: Engineers and Surveyors on the Kansas City Bridge (1869) *** Guillaume Berggren: Occupationals Roberto M. Gerstmann: Mining in Bolivia *** Turkestan Album: Occupational portraits (1871-1872) Naya & Schoefft: Pictoresque Cairo / Le Caire pittoresque - Occupationals (ca. 1875) Alice Austen: Street Types of New York (1896) Waldemar Franz Herman Titzenthaler: Types of German Workers Eugène Atget: Occupationals Occupationals of women Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles of women Occupationals of women Lewis Hine and child labour in the USA Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America Lewis W. Hine: Agricultural labour *** Lewis W. Hine: Coal mines Lewis W. Hine: Cotton mills Lewis W. Hine: News boys and girls Studies of occupational types and "tipos" Christiano Júnior: Tipos (Brazil) François Aubert: Tipos (Mexico) Merille: Tipos (Mexico) Cruces & Campa: Tipos (Mexico) *** William Saunders: Studio studies of the occupations of the Chinese Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China Photographers August Sander: Portraits Irving Penn: Small Trades Paul Strand: Italy: Luzzara: Occupationals *** Examples of occupations Beggars Priests, monks, bishops, pilgrims, missionaries, penitents, churchwardens and holy men Popes *** Porters *** Street vendors Barbers and hairdressers Water carriers and water vendors Butchers *** Firemen Carpenters, cabinet makers and wheelwrights *** Policemen and policewomen *** Blacksmiths *** Miners Sailors
Peoples of the worldIntroduction People of the world Enhanced reality and peoples of the world Introduction to human zoos Different formats Daguerreotypes: Ethnic Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Chinese Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Native Americans Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Spanish Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Acadians, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (1859) Albumen prints: Ethnic and traditional costumes Cartes de visite: Ethnic and traditional costumes Cabinet cards: Ethnic and traditional costumes Helen Edlund: Swedish folk costumes *** Japanese ambrotypes Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872) John William Lindt: Aborigines Charles Kerry: Aborigines Carl Lumholtz: Mexico and the measurement of man (1890s) Studies of occupational types and "tipos" Christiano Júnior: Tipos (Brazil) François Aubert: Tipos (Mexico) Merille: Tipos (Mexico) Cruces & Campa: Tipos (Mexico) *** William Saunders: Studio studies of the occupations of the Chinese Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China William J. Johnson: Photographs of Western India. Volume I. Costumes and Characters (ca. 1855-1862) *** J. Forbes Watson & John William Kaye (eds.): The People of India (1868-1872) Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873 Emilio Biel & Ca.: Album de Phototypico Vistas e Costumes do Norte de Portugal (ca. 1900) *** Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin: The Bantu Tribes of South Africa (1928-1954) Documenting the world in colour Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet (1909-1931) People of all Nations Aborigines King Billy - A scandal in Tasmania Andamanese Arabs *** Argentinians *** Brazilians *** Russians Cossacks *** Dervishes Ecuadorians *** Inuit Japanese Jews Mexicans Peruvians Persians Samoans *** Sápmi: Lapps (Sami or Saami) Zulus Stereotypes Stereotypical portraits in nineteenth century Italy The merging of races Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits Socio-cultural studies Icons of the South - Portraits of Ouleds-Nails (Algeria 1860-1910) Questioning identity Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India
African AmericansIntroduction Introduction to photography by, and of, African Americans Slavery Slavery in America J.T. Zealy: African American slaves The scourged back Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker Abolitionists Roles and representation of African Americans in nineteenth century photography Emancipated slaves in the USA The Unknown Sitter - African American Portraits of the 1860s-1880s Photo postcards Real photo postcards: African Americans *** Photographers Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900) James Van der Zee: Harlem Julian Dimock: African-Americans in South Carolina (1904-1905) *** Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) Aaron Siskind: Harlem Document (1932-1940) Race hatred and prejudice The Klu Klux Klan and race hated in America *** A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America Civil rights Martin Luther King Jr. *** Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Rights Movement (1962-1964) Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA Robert Mapplethorpe and the black body Robert Mapplethorpe: Black bodies Contemporary issues Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968–2008
Native AmericansIntroduction Native Americans Payment and control of representation Native Americans and their control of their representation Edward P. Tobie: Photographing Indians Early studies Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Native Americans Maungwudaus (George Henry) Stereoviews: Native Americans Tintypes: Ethnic: Native Americans Cartes de visite: Native Americans *** Cabinet cards: Ethnic: Natives Americans Vanishing world Native American: The search for the Vanishing Race and a vanishing world Photographers of Native Americans Indigenous photographers of North America Photographers of Native Americans Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872) William Henry Jackson: Portraits of American Indians (1876) De Lancey W. Gill: Native Americans Frederick Monsen: Native Americans Joel E. Whitney: Native Americans *** Camillus S. Fly: Native Americans *** Eadweard Muybridge: The Indians of California *** Byron H. Gurnsey: Native Americans *** John K. Hillers: Native Americans C.R. Savage: Native Americans *** Elias A. Bonine: Native Americans Charles F. Lummis: Native Americans Frank Jay Haynes: Native Americans Adam Clark Vroman: Native Americans Carl Moon: Native Americans Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884) William McFarlane Notman: Canada: First Nations *** Frank Rinehart and Adolph F. Muir: Native Americans Frank Rinehart and Adolph F. Muhr: Attendees of the 1898 Indian Congress Gertrude Käsebier: Native Americans Laura Gilpin: New Mexico and Arizona Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis and Pictorialism Edward S. Curtis: Photograph frames *** Joseph Kossuth Dixon: The Vanishing Race (1925) *** Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment Warriors and celebrity North American Indian Wars: Portraits of Native American leaders Indian delegations Indian delegations Settlements John K. Hillers: Native American settlements *** Enforced acculturation John N. Choate: Indian Training School, Carlisle, PA Indian wars North American Indian Wars: Introduction North American Indian Wars: The photography of aftermath Modoc War (1872-1873) Contemporary photographers Gary Auerbach: Native Americans Contemporary trends The inappropriate usage of Native American imagery First Nations and contemporary art and photography
Photographic surveys movementExamples The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London
ReligionsIntroduction Introduction to religion and photography Hinduism Hinduism *** Judaism Introduction to Judaism Jainism Jainism *** Christianity Christianity Christianity and photomicrographs W. & F. Langenheim: The Lord's Prayer *** Islam Islam Buddhism Buddhism Japan: Kamakura Alexander Brodie Melville: Description of a Mystic Play, as Performed in Ladak, Zascar &c. (1865) [Tibet] *** Mormonism Mormon Underwood & Underwood: Photographs of the homes and haunts of prominent Mormons in Illinois, Missouri and Utah, and of Salt Lake City and Saltair views. (1903-1911) *** Underwood & Underwood: Mormons, the Latter-Day Saints (1904) *** Dreams and visions Dreams and visions
ChristianityIntroduction Introduction to Christianity Overview Jesus Christ The Shroud of Turin *** Christianity The Last Supper *** Architecture Christian architecture Locations Jerusalem: Arch of Ecce Homo Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem: Garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives Italy: Rome: St. Peter's and the Vatican The Cedars of Lebanon Occupations and vocations Popes *** Priests, monks, bishops, pilgrims, missionaries, penitents, churchwardens and holy men Nuns Photography as Biblical evidence George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) H.H. Kitchener: Photographs of Biblical Sites (1875) American Palestine Exploration Society Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai Palestine Exploration Fund Stereoview series on the Bible Introduction to stereoviews illustrating the Bible EH: La Bible Illustrée [Series, stereoview tissues] *** LL: L'Ancien Testament [Series] *** BK: La Vie de Jesus [Series] BK: L'Evangile Illustre [Series] *** SIP: Bible *** Armand Noyer: Vie du Christ (Life of Christ) [Series] Stereoviews: Diableries Missionary work Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904) *** Alonzo Bunker: Burma: Stereoscopic Views Evolution and the Bible Evolution and the Biblical flood Photographers Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843) Francis Frith: The Holy Bible (1862-1863) Frederick H. Evans: Cathedrals Henri Le Secq: Premier Cahier de lithophotographie (1853) *** Detroit Publishing Co.: France: Lourdes *** Eugène Atget: Churches of Paris - L’Eglises de Paris [Portfolio] *** F. Holland Day: The Seven Words Walker Evans: Churches *** Photomicrographs of Christian texts Christianity and photomicrographs W. & F. Langenheim: The Lord's Prayer *** Significant events Menu de communion d'Adolphe Verspreeuwen Baptism *** Passion plays Erinnerung an Oberammergau 1890 (Souvenir of Oberammergau 1890) Christmas and New Year Greetings Christmas and New Year Greetings
IslamOverview Islam Architecture Islamic architecture Holy sites Mohammad Sadiq: Mecca (1880-1881) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje & Abd al Ghaffar: Pilgrimage to Mecca (1884-1885) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: Bilder aus Mekka (1889) H.A. Mirza & Sons: Views of Mecca and Medina (1907) Saudi Arabia: The Haj - Abbas Hilmi album Locations Jerusalem: Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Using calligraphy to reflect on the role of women Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
JudaismIntroduction Introduction to Judaism Jews Jews Locations Jerusalem: Western Wall - Wailing Wall - Wailing place The Cedars of Lebanon Konrad Brandel: Views of the City of Pinsk (1882-1884) [Russian Empire, now Belarus] *** The context of the 1930s The Holocaust: The Pre-Second World War setting Moi Ver: Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna (1931) *** The Holocaust The Holocaust: Photographing inside the ghettos The Holocaust: Death camps The Holocaust: Children The Holocaust: Photographers who died The legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary photography Photographers Neil Folberg: Synagogues *** Reflections on Judaism and family life Rafael Goldchain: Familial Ground
SocietyIntroduction Society
American struggles for civil rightsIntroduction Introduction to American struggles for civil rights Abolitionists Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker The scourged back Abolitionists Prejudice The Klu Klux Klan and race hated in America *** Slavery Emancipated slaves in the USA A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America People Martin Luther King Jr. *** Photographers Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Rights Movement (1962-1964) Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA Flip Schulke: Civil rights in America ***
Contemporary worldTrends Ubiquitous Photography Contemporary artists painting on photographs
Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento moriIntroduction Introduction to death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori Examples Nineteenth century post-mortem and memento mori Post-mortem and memento mori photographs of babies and children Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Post-mortem portraits Cartes de visite Cartes de visite: Post-mortem portraits Cabinet cards Cabinet cards: Post-mortem and memorial portraits Tintypes Tintypes: Post-mortem portraits *** Postcards Postcards: Death and memorials *** Spirit photography Abraham Lincoln as a returning spirit Marketing death Marketing: Chase's Daguerreotype Rooms, Boston (1846) Marketing: John A. Whipple, 96 Washington St., Boston (1848) Marketing: J.V.R. Schuyler, Ithaca, NY (1853) Marketing: Root's Daguerrean Gallery (1853) Combining a daguerreotype with a miniature to create a painting (1848) Elliott and Fry during the First World War - portraits often gain a mournful interest (1917) Reminiscences of photographing the dead Charlie E. Orr: Post-Mortem Photography (1873) Ghastly Photographic Experiences (1882) Cemeteries Southworth and Hawes: Mount Auburn Cemetery Photographs on graves Photograph of the deceased on a grave at a cemetery in Yokohama, Japan (1881) Notable deaths François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian
EducationIntroduction Introduction to education Group photographs School groups *** Photographers Joseph Saxton: Philadelphia Central High School for Boys and Pennsylvania State Arsenal Albert Fernique: Ecole centrale des arts et manufactures (1875) *** Stephen J Sedgwick: Announcement of Prof. S. J. Sedgwick's illustrated course of lectures and catalogue of stereoscopic views of scenery in all parts of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains (1879-1880) *** Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900) George K. Warren: MA, Cambridge including Harvard University *** Herb Snitzer: Summerfield School Berenice Abbott: Science Photography as a subject of study Photography as an academic discipline
EventsIntroduction Introduction to events Events as portrayed by different processes Daguerreotypes: Events Salt prints: Events Albumen prints: Events Cartes de visite: Events Cabinet cards: Events Stereoviews: Events Gelatin silver prints: Events Examples of events City of Hamburg fire (1842) Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) George N. Barnard: Oswego Mills (1853) Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853) Timothy O'Sullivan: A council of war at Massaponax Church, VA (21 May 1864) A.J. Russell: Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah (10 May 1869) China: Typhoon (September 1874) Sumner & Son (Northfield): The Aftermath of the Northfield Raid (1876) Greece: The Dilessi Murders (1870) Ivan Boldyrev: Night illumination at Peterhof (1893) *** Victims of the Khodinsky Plain panic, Coronation Week, Moscow, Russia (1896) Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (25 March 1911) The execution of Ruth Synder (1929) Hindenburg disaster (6 May 1937) A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945) Mikhail Kudish: Nick Ut and Kim Phuc (2012) World Trade Center (September 11, 2001)
Family lifeIntroduction Introduction to family life Maintaining the family household Shops: Exteriors Shops: Interiors Sears, Roebuck Co.: [Commercial operations] (1907) *** Markets Washing, laundry and hanging clothes out to dry Motherhood Motherhood Protective madonnas Madonnas Photographers Heinrich Kühn: Family portraits *** Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Portraits of Renée Perle *** Harry Callahan: Eleanor and Barbara Sally Mann: Immediate Family Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home Rafael Goldchain: Familial Ground Richard Billingham: Ray and Liz Donna Ferrato: Living with the Enemy
FSA - Farm Security AdministrationContext FSA - Farm Security Administration: Context The Dust Bowl Introduction to the FSA - Farm Security Administration FSA - Farm Security Administration: Photographers FSA - Farm Security Administration: Examples FSA - Farm Security Administration: Models *** FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour Arthur Rothstein Arthur Rothstein: FSA - Farm Security Administration *** Arthur Rothstein: Cow skull in the Badlands Arthur Rothstein: Fleeing a dust storm Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange: FSA - Farm Security Administration *** Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco Walker Evans Walker Evans: FSA - Farm Security Administration *** Walker Evans: The Burroughs family Walker Evans: Alabama, Greensboro Ben Shahn Ben Shahn: FSA - Fam Security Administration *** Carl Mydans Carl Mydans: FSA - Farm Security Administration *** Marion Post Wolcott Marion Post Wolcott: FSA - Farm Security Administration *** Conclusions FSA - Farm Security Administration: Conclusions
GenderIntroduction Introduction to gender The roles of women Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles of women Roles and representation Roles and representation of African Americans in nineteenth century photography Sufferage Sufferage *** Photographers Larry Clark: Teenage Lust Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful (1975) Laurie Simmons: Fabicated realities and the exploration of gender Barbara Kruger: Your body is a battleground *** Joy Christiansen: Family Gathering Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc Shadi Ghadirian: Women
Great DepressionPhotographers Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother Arthur Rothstein: Cow skull in the Badlands Arthur Rothstein: Fleeing a dust storm Historic American Buildings Survey - HABS Historic American Buildings Survey - HABS
GunsFirearms Children with guns *** Introduction Adults with guns The iconic nature of guns *** Hunters with their guns Firearms and the military ***
HomelessnessIntroduction Homelessness *** Photographers Thomas Barnardo: Children Reclaimed for LIfe
Housing conditionsIntroduction Introduction to housing conditions Photographers Archibald Burns: Edinburgh Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Fritz Benzen: The streets and buildings of Copenhagen, Denmark (ca 1895-1910) *** Nick Hedges: Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72 Shelby Lee Adams: Appalachian Lives ***
Immigrants and immigrationPhotographers Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits Lewis W. Hine: Ellis Island David Moore: Migrant Woman (1966)
LeisureIntroduction Leisure Activities Messing about on boats *** Leisure: Bell ringers Leisure: Costume balls Leisure: Cycling - Penny farthings, boneshakers and bicycles Leisure: Fairgrounds, sideshows, carnivals and circuses Leisure: Fairgrounds, sideshows, carnivals and circuses: Ferris wheels *** Leisure: Fishing *** Leisure: Needle crafts, sewing, knitting and crochet Leisure: Reading Leisure: Listening to the radio *** Leisure: Watching television *** Swimming Games Leisure: Playing games *** Game boards incorporating photographs Leisure: Playing cards Leisure: Playing chess Leisure: Ring toss *** Techniques and processes Tintypes: Leisure *** Photographers Thomas Eakins: The Swimming Hole Weegee: Infrared photography Helen Levitt: Children of New York Use of toys and childhood memories within contemporary photography Floris M. Neusüss: Barbie and Ken ***
PatriotismIntroduction Introduction to patriotism Your country needs you Flags Flags Photographers Mole & Thomas: Symbols of American pride SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945) Robert Frank: The Americans - The flag as a symbol ***
PovertyIntroduction Introduction to poverty *** London Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor John Thomson: The Crawlers Thomas Barnardo: Children Reclaimed for LIfe New York Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers T.H. McAllister (American): Street life of New York (1898) *** The Depression Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco Industrial wastelands Carl Uytterhaegen: Cité3
Racial issuesIntroduction Introduction to racial issues USA The scourged back Emancipated slaves in the USA Aestheticism Real photo postcards: African Americans *** The Klu Klux Klan and race hated in America *** A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America Martin Luther King Jr. *** Photographers Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA Robert Frank: The Americans - Racial issues *** Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968–2008
RefugeesIntroduction Refugees and migrants Refugees during the First World War (1914-1918) The Berlin Wall Photographers Adrian J. Ebell: The Indian Massacres and the War of 1862 Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits Nelly's: Greek refugees from Asia Minor *** Steve McCurry - The Power of a Single Image
Rural communitiesPhotographers Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) Mike Disfarmer: Heber Springs portraits Shelby Lee Adams: Appalachian Lives ***
SexualityPhotographers Nadar: Hermaphrodite Larry Clark: Teenage Lust Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986)
Slavery, abolition and civil rightsUnited States of America Slavery in America Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker Cotton J.T. Zealy: African American slaves The scourged back Abolitionists Emancipated slaves in the USA Brazil Slavery in Brazil
Social conflictRace hatred in America A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America The Klu Klux Klan and race hated in America *** The Year of Revolutions (1848) Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris Year of Revolutions (1848): Great Britain *** Year of Revolutions (1848): Hungary
Social life and meeting placesMarkets Markets Cafes and bars Socializing in cafes and restaurants Socializing in bars and clubs *** John Divola: Continuity - Film set photographs of bars *** Camera clubs Camera clubs and get-togethers of photographers *** Paris The social life of Paris *** Photographers Anders Petersen: Café Lehmitz
SuburbiaIntroduction Introduction to suburbia *** Photographers Bill Owens: Suburbia Robert Adams: The construction of suburbia William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia
Urban lifeCommerce Shops: Exteriors Shops: Interiors Markets Socializing Socializing in cafes and restaurants Socializing in bars and clubs *** Wartime The civilian impact of War Photographers Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow Archibald Burns: Edinburgh Arnold Genthe: Chinatown Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco *** Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Anders Petersen: Café Lehmitz
Working conditionsIntroduction Introduction to working conditions *** Photographers Unidentified photographer: Russia: Workshops of the Valaam monastery (early 1890s) *** Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America Milton Rogovin: Diptych portraits *** Disasters Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (25 March 1911)
Erotica and nudesIntroduction Introduction to erotica and nudes Sculpture and the nude Erotica and photographic innovation Erotica and innovation Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Erotica and nudes Stereovews Le Stereo-Nu *** Unidentified photographer: Déshabillé au Stereoscope [Series] *** Unidentified photographer: Les Beautes du Nu au Stereoscope [Series] *** The female nude The female nude Oil paintings by Gustave Courbet based upon photographs Académies and the use of artist studies of models to assist artists Man Ray: Nudes *** Studie - Etude and the avoidance of obscenity charges Artistic studies of nude women Early female nude studies Pictorialism, the nude and erotica Different approaches to the female nude Shadow patterns on nudes *** Body stockings French albums of titillation Erotica: Comment me preferez vous? [How would you like to see me?] Erotica: La Soubrette [The Maid] *** Photographers of the female nude Auguste Belloc: Nudes Jacques Moulin: Nude studies Louis-Camille d'Olivier: Nudes *** Eugène Durieu: Artist studies - Académies A. Calavas (editor): Artist studies - Académies Wilhelm von Gloeden: The women and girls of Sicily *** Wilhelm Plüschow: Nude portraits of women and girls *** G.L. Arlaud: Vingt Études de Nu en Plein Air (1920) Walery: Nus - Cent photographies originales de Laryew (ca. 1924) Alexander Grinberg: Nudes Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes Frank Eugene: Nudes *** Germaine Krull: Nudes *** E.O. Hoppé: Nudes *** Alfred Cheney Johnston: Nudes Rudolf Koppitz: Nude studies Man Ray: 1929 Strand Studios: Glamour portraits Frantisek Drtikol: Nudes Frantisek Drtikol: Les Nus de Drtikol (1929) *** Josef Vetrovsky: Nudes (1920s) Heinz Hajek-Halke: Nudes *** Laure Albin-Guillot: Nudes *** Bill Brandt: Nudes André Kertész: Distortions Imogen Cunningham: Nudes *** Ruth Bernhard: Nudes P.H. Oelman: Nudes (1940s) *** Edward Weston: Nudes Brett Weston: Underwater nudes Pierre Molinier: Erotica *** Lucien Clergue: Nudes *** John Swannell: Nudes *** Saul Leiter: Painted nudes Thomas Ruff: Nudes *** The male nude The male nude Artistic studies of nude men Strong men Studies of naked men Photographers Wilhelm von Gloeden: The men and boys of Sicily Erotica Gelatin silver prints: Erotica and the nude Fetishism Count Theodore Zichy: The fetishism of legs and feet Ethnographic nudity Ethnographic nudity Voyeurism Voyeurism Obscenity and pornography Pornography Obscenity Conclusions Conclusions on erotica and nudes ***
Academic study of sexualityIntroduction The academic study of sexuality
Erotica and staged photographyIntroduction Erotica and staged photography Photographers Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Good Reputation Sleeping (La Buena Fama Durmiendo) Joel-Peter Witkin
HomoeroticismIntroduction Introduction to homoeroticism *** Artists studies of naked men Artistic studies of nude men Strong men Studies of naked men Photographers Wilhelm von Gloeden: The men and boys of Sicily Wilhelm Plüschow: Young male nudes *** Paul Cadmus *** Herb Ritts: Fred with tires and chains *** George Platt-Lynes: Celebration of the male form *** Robert Mapplethorpe: Black bodies
Sex IndustryIntroduction The sex industry The sex industry - examples Courtesans Photographers Eugène Atget: Brothels, prostitutes and nudes Studio Biederer E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits Frank Horvat: Le Sphynx, rue Pigalle, Paris *** Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road Larry Sultan: The Valley ***
DominationPhotographers Studio Biederer
FetishPhotographers Hans Bellmer: La Poupée Count Theodore Zichy: The fetishism of legs and feet
NaturismIntroduction Naturism and the sacred purity of the body *** Nudism *** Photographers Kurt Reichert: Naturism *** Gerhard Riebicke: Nudes and sports ***
ProstitutionIntroduction Introduction to prostitution *** Prostitutes and courtesans Courtesans Photographers Eugène Atget: Brothels, prostitutes and nudes E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits Brassaï: Prostitution and Rue Quincampoix, Paris Georges Thiry: Prostitutes *** Anders Petersen: Café Lehmitz Larry Clark: Teenage Lust Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road
Experimental and manipulated photographyIntroduction Introduction to experimental and manipulated photography Removal of distracting elements Manipulating negatives Trick photography Bust or statuette portraits Multiple portraits taken using mirrors (Multigraphs or mirror portraits) Decapitated heads Spirit photography Reduction People in bottles Photo caricatures Photograms of seaweed Stamps and stamp portraits Electrical photographs Crayon daguerreotypes and vignettes The simulation of night Composite and combination prints Composite and combination prints: Defined C.W. Applegreen creates a composite photograph Distortions Introduction to distortions Louis Ducos du Hauron: Transformiste (Distortions) Reflections Reflections in water Softening portraits The softening technique of Andrei Denier Composite portraits Composite and combination prints: Portraits Cliché verre Cliché verre Painting on photographs Introduction to painting on photographs Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong Photojournalism and painting on photographs Press photographs with paint or instructions Photograms Photograms Solarization Introduction to solarization Examples of solarization Edmund Teske: Duotone solarizations Mordançage Mordançage examples Sculptural forms Working with paper and card Exaggeration photo postcards Exaggeration postcards William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards Polaroids Experimental and manipulated Polaroids *** Ellen Carey: Pulls Photographers Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875) Hannah Maynard: Self portraits Alexander Rodchenko: Using different viewpoints Francis Bruguière: Cathedral montages *** Roger Parry: Banalité (1930) Frederick R. Archer: Experimental works *** Francis Bruguière: Cut-paper abstractions *** Man Ray: Solarized nudes Man Ray: Les vois lactées (1974) Lotte Jacobi: Photogenics Carl-Heinz Chargesheimer: Experimental photography Heinz Hajek-Halke: Experimental photography Kurt Wendlandt: Lichtgraphik *** Jaroslav Rössler: Abstractions *** Milos Korecek: Abstractions (Fokalke) Edmund Kesting: Ein Maler sieht durch's Objektiv (1958) Weegee: Kaleidoscopic photographs Frederick Sommer: Cut paper Henry Holmes Smith: Portfolio Two, Center for Photographic Studies *** Ladislav Postupa: Experimental vision *** Cinema and experimental photography Dziga Vertov:The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Integrity Image integrity in documentary photography and photojournalism
Body fluids and animal partsIntroduction Body fluids and animal parts Body fluids Animal parts
Cameraless photographsIntroduction Introduction to cameraless photographs Early examples of cameraless photography Early photographers recording nature Anna Atkins: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions (1843-1854) Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (ca. 1854) Anna K. Weaver Photograms and their types Terminology for cameraless photographs Experimental photographers and cameraless photographs Photograms Experimental photographers Man Ray: Rayograms Man Ray: Electricité (1931) *** Arthur Siegel: Photograms *** Claude Tolmer: Photograms *** Elfriede Stegemeyer: Photograms *** Hilde Horn: Photograms *** László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms Christian Schad: Schadographs Werner Schnelle: Light Works Capturing the environment Harry Nankin: Contact 2003-2004 Harry Nankin: Rain
Capturing motionIntroduction Introduction to capturing motion Ballet Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet (1945) Motion Motion in black and white *** Motion in colour
ChemigramsIntroduction Chemigrams Photographers Werner Schnelle: Chemigrams ***
DistortionsIntroduction Distortions: Defined Introduction to distortions Photographers Louis Ducos du Hauron: Transformiste (Distortions) Herbert G. Ponting: Distortograph: William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chicago (1927) André Kertész: Distortions Weegee: Distortions Bill Brandt: Distortions
GraffitiIntroduction Introduction to graffiti Historical Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti Photographers Brassaï: Graffiti Conceptual photography and graffiti John Divola: Vandalism and Zuma Alexandre Orion: Metabiotica
Lines and shapesPhotographic forms Grids Landscape: Horizon *** Diagonals from upper left to lower right *** Diagonals from lower left to upper right *** Curves Spirals ***
Mixed mediaIntroduction Introduction to mixed media Writing on photographs Using the body as a canvas Early examples of painting on photographs *** Contemporary artists painting on photographs Mixed media objects Using human hair with photographs Photographers Peter Beard: Mixed-media collages and collaborative works Saul Leiter: Painted nudes Huang Yan and body painting ***
MordançageIntroduction Mordançage examples History Working in the Mordançage process by Elizabeth Opalenik - A personal history Technique The Mordançage process Photographers Jean-Pierre Sudre: Soleil *** Jean-Pierre Sudre: M+V *** Jean-Pierre Sudre: Insectes *** Jean-Pierre Sudre: Paysages matériographiques *** Elizabeth Opalenik: Mordançage ***
Multiple exposuresIntroduct Introduction to multiple exposures Different techniques and multiple exposures Daguerreotypes: Multiple images Albumen prints: Multiple exposures Cartes de visite: Multiple exposures Cabinet cards: Multiple exposures Tintypes: Multiple exposures Gelatin silver prints: Multiple exposures Real photo postcards: Multiple exposures Photographers using multiple exposures Maurice Tabard: Multiple exposures and solarizations Francis Bruguière: Cathedral montages *** Duane Michels: The Spirit Leaves the Body (1968) Appropriation Appropriation ***
PhotogramsIntroduction Terminology for cameraless photographs Examples of photogenic drawings *** Examples Photograms Photographers Anna Atkins: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions (1843-1854) Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (ca. 1854) Anna K. Weaver Herbert Boucher Dobbie: New Zealand Ferns. 148 Varieties (1880) Man Ray: Rayograms Man Ray: Electricité (1931) *** Arthur Siegel: Photograms *** Claude Tolmer: Photograms *** Elfriede Stegemeyer: Photograms *** Hilde Horn: Photograms *** Oskar Nerlinger: Photograms *** László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms Christian Schad: Schadographs Lou Landauer: Photograms *** Luigi Veronesi: Photograms *** Werner Schnelle: Light Works Floris Michael Neusüss: Full body photograms Adam Fuss: Photograms Susan Derges: The River Taw *** Harry Nankin: Contact 2003-2004 Harry Nankin: Rain Michael Jackson: Sculptures (2022) *** Conclusions Some thoughts on photograms
ShadowsIntroduction Introduction to shadows Street shadows *** Shadow patterns on nudes *** The photographer as a shadow participant Shadows: Examples
SignageIntroduction Introduction to signage Examples of signage Introduction to neon *** Photographers Walker Evans: Signs Harry Callahan: Signage *** Todd Webb: Signage ***
SolarizationIntroduction Introduction to solarization Examples of solarization Photographers Man Ray: Solarized nudes Maurice Tabard: Multiple exposures and solarizations Erwin Blumenfeld: Solarizations Edmund Teske: Duotone solarizations
Using different viewpointsIntroduction Introduction to viewpoints Looking up Looking up Looking up - Photographers Carleton E. Watkins: Looking up in Calaveras Grove Looking down Looking down Street shadows *** Looking down - Photographers Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Viewpoints André Kertész: Viewpoints Alexander Rodchenko: Using different viewpoints Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
Using intermediatesIntroduction Using intermediates Shooting through glass ***
FashionIntroduction Introduction to fashion Early fashion photography Custom Boys wearing dresses before they were breeched Photo-jewelry Photo-jewelry: Bracelets Photo-jewelry: Brooches and pins Photo-jewelry: Lockets Photo-jewelry: Pendants *** Photo-jewelry: Rings *** Photo-jewelry: Stick pins *** Photo-jewelry: Political Photography on fabric and clothing Photographs and photo-related themes on fabric and clothing Items of clothing Still life: Fabric, textiles, lace and embroidery Headwear Footwear Fashion accessories Eyewear Fans Umbrellas and parasols Key fashion photographers Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) Lillian Bassman: Fashion Irving Penn: Fashion Magazines Vanity Fair Fashion houses Fashion houses and photography Fashion houses: Gianni Versace Parisian couture (ca. 1900-1920) *** Fashion photographers by decade Fashion photographers by decade Fashion 1920s Fashion 1930s Fashion 1940s Fashion 1950s Fashion 1960s Fashion 1970s *** Fashion 1980s Fashion 1990s *** Fashion and the use of colour The rise of colour in fashion photography Fashion and transportation Transportation and fashion examples *** Fashion and the military Fashion: Accessories: Gas masks Contemporary fashion Contemporary fashion photography Case studies Robinson & Roi: The Famous Glass Dress - Royal Robe of Princess Eulalia
Fashion 1910-1920Introduction Fashion 1910s Parisian couture (ca. 1900-1920) *** Portfolio of Lady Duff-Gordon's Original Designs - Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Fall 1916 - Winter 1917) Photographers G. Agié: Parisian couture (1900-1920) Henri Manuel: Couture hats (ca. 1910) *** Edward Steichen: Fashion portraits showing the clothing of fashion designer Paul Poiret for the French magazine "L'Art de la Robe" (April 1911) ***
Fashion 1920-1930Introduction Fashion 1920s Photographers Alfred Cheney Johnston: Zeigfeld follies, movie stars and fashionable ladies
Fashion 1930-1940Introduction Fashion 1930s America in the 1930s Surrealism and fashion Photographers Martin Munkacsi Ilse Bing: Fashion *** Yva: Fashion *** Erwin Blumenfeld: Lisa Fonssagrives on the Eiffel Tower (1939) *** Horst (1906-1999) The Depression and the Dustbowl
Fashion 1940-1950Introduction Fashion 1940s Fashion during the Second World War Fashion during the Post-war 1940s Models Fashion model - Lisa Fonssagrives Photographers Erwin Blumenfeld and the 1940s
Fashion 1950-1960Introduction Fashion 1950s
Fashion 1960-1970Introduction Fashion 1960s Photographers Melvin Sokolsky: The bubble series (1963) F.C. Gundlach: Fashion ***
Fashion 1970-1980Introduction Fashion 1970s ***
Fashion 1980-1990Introduction Fashion 1980s
Fashion 1990-2000Introduction Fashion 1990s ***
Fashion magazinesVogue Vogue Vogue photographers Harper's Bazaar Harper's Bazaar *** Photographers Fashion: Adolf de Meyer (1868-1946)
Early fashion magazinesIntroduction Early fashion magazines Nineteenth century color fashion plates *** The spread of nineteen century fashion magazines Fashion and halftone Fashion and portrait photography Photographs of costumes (1839-1860)
Harper's BazaarIntroduction Harper's Bazaar *** Photographers Melvin Sokolsky: The bubble series (1963)
VogueIntroduction Vogue Vogue photographers Photographers Fashion: Adolf de Meyer (1868-1946)
LandscapeIntroduction Landscape photography Surveying Daguerreotypes: Landscapes Daguerreotypes: Panoramas Albumen prints: Landscapes *** Cartes de visite: Landscapes Cabinet cards: Landscapes Cartes de visite: Cityscapes Cabinet cards: Cityscapes Stereoviews: Places and locations Gelatin silver prints: Landscape Nineteenth century landscape photography Nineteenth century landscape photographers Roger Fenton: The Works of Roger Fenton - Landscapes (Frith - Reigate) (ca 1868) *** Peter Henry Emerson: Marsh Leaves (1895) Pictorialism and the landscape Pictorialism and trees Pictorialism: Landscapes of ice and snow Themes Trends and themes with landscape photography Landscapes: Straight vs. Pictorialist Landscapes: Pristine vs. Altered by man Figures within the landscape The landscapes of war Introduction to early colour landscape photography Autochromes: Landscape Print size and perception within landscapes Amateur, snapshots and the popularisation of landscape Snapshots: Landscapes Cigarette cards of landscapes *** Miniature views *** Photographers Fred Judge: UK: Postcards Ansel Adams: The New Ansel Adams Photography Series Mario Giacomelli: On Being Aware of Nature (Presa di coscienza sulla natura) John Pfahl: Landscapes *** Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier) New Topographics New Topographics (1975) Thoughts Thoughts on trends in landscape photography
Early color landscape photographyIntroduction Introduction to early colour landscape photography Autochromes: Landscape Photographers Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Colour landscapes
Early pictorialist landscape photographyIntroduction Pictorialist landscape photography Pictorialism and the landscape Pictorialism and trees Pictorialism: Landscapes of ice and snow Photographers Leonard Misonne: Trees William Dassonville: Trees
Landscape photography and environmental issuesIntroduction Landscape photography and environmental issues Railways and the landscape The landscapes of industry The landscapes of war Documerica Project (1971-1977) Landscape and the environment - examples Photographers W. Eugene Smith: Minamata Lewis Baltz: New Industrial parks near Irvine, California (1974) Carl Uytterhaegen: Cité3 Edward Burtynsky: What Hath Man Wrought? John Darwell: Legacy - Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Bruce Haley: Disfigured Landscapes David Maisel: Oblivion Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust *** Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier) Mandy Barker: Environmental damage through plastic waste of the seas
Landscape photography and historical issuesIntroduction Landscape photography and historical issues Rephotographic projects Rephotographic Survey Project Mark Klett on The Rephotographic Survey Projects Canada, Montreal France: Paris Italy: Florence Poland Egypt: Cairo Commemorations and anniversaries Lewis and Clark commemorations The hidden histories of landscape The hidden histories of place The interplay between history and landscape Eva Leitolf: German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008 James Fee: The Peleliu Project Jack Burman: KZ
Landscape photography and natural catastrophesIntroduction Natural catastrophes Earthquakes Earthquakes Earthquake: San Francisco (1868) Ogawa Kazumasa: The Great Earthquake of Japan (1891) USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers Volcanic eruptions USA, Washington, Mount St. Helens eruption (1980) Fires Fires Typhoons China: Typhoon (September 1874) Hurricanes Hurricanes USA, Hurricane Katrina Human activity Natural catastrophes provoked by human activity John Darwell: Legacy - Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Conclusions Thoughts on natural catastrophes
Landscape photography and spatial relationshipsIntroduction Spatial relationships within the landscape Photographers Ed Ruscha: Every Building on Sunset Strip ***
Landscape photography and the New PictorialismIntroduction Landscape photography and the New Pictorialism Examples of the New Pictorialism
Rephotographic projectsIntroduction Introduction to rephotographic projects Rephotographic Survey Project Rephotographic Survey Project Mark Klett on The Rephotographic Survey Projects Examples A Rephotographic Survey of the American West: Mountain of the Holy Cross Canada, Montreal Italy: Florence War and conflict Rephotographic studies of conflicts and wars
Landscape typesIntroduction Landscape types
Agricultural and pastoralIntroduction Introduction to agriculture and photography Art Leopold Robert (1794-1835, artist): "The arrival of the reapers in the Pontine marshes" (L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les marais Pontins) [with variants] *** Landscapes Landscape: Agricultural Landscape: Agricultural: Farmyards Landscape: Agricultural: Ploughing Landscape: Agricultural: Harvesting, threshing and storage *** Tea plantation in the vicinity of Fuzhou, Fujian, China *** Cultivation and product Cotton Livestock Early livestock photography Cattle, bulls, cows and oxen Sheep Chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese *** Horses Photographers Adolphe Braun: Cows and oxen Constant Alexandre Famin: Livestock *** Eadweard Muybridge: Buena Vista, Sonoma Solomon D. Butcher: Nebraska: Sod houses and farms *** Giraudon's artist: Rural studies Marc Ferrez: Coffee production in Brazil *** Richard Daintree: Images of Queensland (ca. 1870) William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards Lewis W. Hine: Agricultural labour *** Heinrich Riebesehl: Agrarlandschaften ***
BeachesIntroduction Landscape: Beaches Landscape: Beach activitiy Landscape: Beaches as land art *** Beach photographers Beach photographers Photographers Lucien Clergue: Language of the sands (Langage des sables) Michael Jackson: Poppit Sands (2007-)
Cityscapes - UrbanIntroduction Introduction to cityscapes and the urban context Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary Early street photography Examples Landscape: Cityscapes Stereoviews: Themes: Landscape types - Cityscapes - Urban Cartes de visite: Cityscapes Cabinet cards: Cityscapes Ports, harbours and docks Individual cities Studies of individual cities Photographers George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) Silas A. Holmes (attributed): New York (ca. 1855) Charles Waldack: Ohio: Cincinnati (ca 1860) *** Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow Archibald Burns: Edinburgh Charles Marville: France: Paris Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862) Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris Pieter Oosterhuis: Amsterdam Photographié (ca 1860) *** Hans Krum: Norway: Trondheim *** James Robertson: Constantinople Leopold Ahrendts: Berlin Ludwig Angerer: Bucharest (1856) *** Albert Felisch: Russia, St. Petersburg Joan Martí Centellas: Barcelona Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal Kloch & Dutkiewicz (publisher): Warsaw *** František Fridrich: Czech Republic: Prague H. Béchard: Cairo: Streets Désiré Charnay: Views of Mexico City and environs (1858) *** Eadweard Muybridge: Guatemala: Guatemala City (ca 1875) *** Marc Ferrez: Buildings of Brazil Luis Pastorino: Fotografias de Montevideo (1880) John Edward Saché: Views of Calcutta (ca 1865-1882) Konrad Brandel: Views of the City of Pinsk (1882-1884) [Russian Empire, now Belarus] *** Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later) Sampson Stereoscopic Co.: New York City (ca 1899) *** Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Fritz Benzen: The streets and buildings of Copenhagen, Denmark (ca 1895-1910) *** George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons *** Alvin Langdon Coburn: London (1909) Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910) Edward Steichen: The Flatiron Berenice Abbott: Changing New York Henry B. Goodwin: Sweden: Stockholm *** Morrison & Burdekin: London Night (1934) August Sander: Cologne W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project Andreas Feininger: The architecture of New York Robbert Flick: Trajectories *** Michael Najjar: Netropolis *** Michael Wolf: Architecture of Density *** Pictorialism Landscape: Pictorialist Cityscapes *** Construction Landscape: Construction within cityscapes Snow Cityscapes with snow Signage Examples of signage Wartime Cityscapes in wartime People within the city Strolling the city streets *** Energy of the city William Klein: Books The contemporary street The contemporary street and surveillance The contemporary street and mapping *** Conclusions Conclusions to cityscapes and the urban context
CliffsIntroduction Landscape: Cliffs
Deserts and dunesIntroduction Landscape: Deserts and dunes Photographers Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. Rudolph D'Heureuse: The Mojave Road *** Edward Weston: Oceano Dunes Brett Weston: Deserts
FantasyIntroduction Landscapes: Fantasy Photographers Jerry Uelsmann: Trees Maggie Taylor: Landscape of dreams and other visions Fran Forman: Photomontage *** Paul Biddle: The Archipelago of Fantasy Islands
ForestsExamples Landscape: Forests Landscape: Rainforests *** Yosemite Valley (USA) Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA) The Forest of Fontainebleau (France) Photographs of the Forests of Fontainebleau Eugène Cuvelier: France: Forest of Fontainebleau William Drooke Harrison: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Gustave Le Gray: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Bois de Boulogne, Paris Paris: Bois de Boulogne Similarities between art and photography Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The road to Chailly (Forests of Fontainebleau) Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The Bodmer Oak (Forests of Fontainebleau) Logging and forestry Darius Kinsey: Forestry and logging in the American North-West (1906-1940) Darius Kinsey: Stereoviews of logging in to American North-West Photographers L. Delaroche: Forest of Fontainebleau *** G.O. Brown (active 1860-1889): Battlefield of the Wilderness *** Leonard Misonne: Trees Josef Sudek: Vanished Statues in Mionsi
Gardens and parksIntroduction Introduction to gardens and parks Gardeners *** Greenhouses, Conservatories and Palm Houses Gardens Jerusalem: Garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives France: Versailles Paris: Saint-Cloud Photographers Hippolyte Bayard: In the garden *** Edouard Delessert: Paris - Park Delessert *** Eugène Atget: Versailles *** Eugène Atget: Paris: Luxembourg Gardens / Jardin du Luxembourg *** Louis F. Murdock: Gardens ***
HorizonIntroduction Landscape: Horizon *** Photographers Joel Meyerowitz: Bay / Sky ***
Ice and snowIntroduction Landscape: Ice and snow Cityscapes with snow Styles and movements Pictorialism: Landscapes of ice and snow Photographers William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873) Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883) *** Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s) Elmer & Tenney (Winona, Minn.): E. & T. Minnesota Snow - View Series of 1881 - Snow Blockade Views *** Alexander Henderson: Canadian landscapes William B. Post: Snowscapes *** George H. Seeley: Winter landscapes and snow *** André Kertész: Washington Square Roger Mayne: Richmond Park, Snow *** Simulation of snow and ice with portrait studios The simulation of snow and ice in portrait studios
Lakes, ponds, meres, reed beds and lagoonsIntroduction Landscape: Lakes, ponds, meres, reed beds and lagoons *** Photographers Thomas Easterly: Chouteau's Pond Jack Burman: KZ Locations Israel and Palestine - Jordan: Dead Sea ***
MountainsExamples Landscape: Mountains Photographers John Stewart: Pyrenees (1850s) Farnham Maxwell Lyte: The Pyrenees Jean-Jacques Heilmann: Pyrenees *** Vicomte Joseph Vigier: Pyrenees Samuel Bourne: Northern India and the Himalayas (1863-1870) Hermann Krone: Säksische Schweiz - Saxon Switzerland (1857) *** Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s) Charles Soulier: Switzerland *** Auguste Rosalie Bisson: Switzerland (ca 1860) *** Adolphe Braun: Alpine mountains and glaciers *** William England: Views of Switzerland [Series] *** Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross Carleton Eugene Watkins: California, Mt. Shasta *** William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places Mark Twain attempting to photograph the Matterhorn (1880) Eduard Spelterini: Aerial views Frank Sydney Smythe: Mountains Vittorio Sella: Mountains Antione Sevruguin: Mountain Landscapes of Iran Louis F. Murdock: Mountains *** Albert Steiner: Switzerland *** Bradford Washburn: Aerial photography Amateur photography and snapshots Snapshots: Mountains ***
Rivers and streamsIntroduction Landscape: Rivers and streams Photographers Camille Silvy: River Scene (1858) Victor Albert Prout: The Thames from London to Oxford in Forty Photographs (1862) Emile de La Bédollière & Ildefonse Rousset: Le tour de Marne / décrit et photographie´ par Émile de la Bédollière et Ildefonse Rousset (1865) *** Roger Fenton: Great Britain: Rivers and streams Francis Frith: Illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hyperion (1865) William England: Views of the Rhine and Its Vicinity / Der Rhein und seine Umgebungen [Series] *** John Thomson: Views on the North River (1870) John Thomson: Foochow and the River Min (1870-1871) *** Emile Ninaud: Amur River region between Russia and China (1870s) River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872) Henry W. Taunt: The River Thames (1872) Anselm Schmitz: The Rhine and its Environs [Series] *** Carleton E. Watkins: Columbia River *** William H. Bell: Colorado River *** William Bell: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. / Colorado River Series [Stereoviews] *** Henry P. Bosse: Views on the Mississippi River Rivers Paris: The Seine England: The Thames Italy: Rome: The Tiber Egypt: The Nile Contemporary Contemporary perspectives on rivers and streams Susan Derges: The River Taw ***
Rural pathways, tracks, trails and lanesExamples Landscape: Rural pathways, tracks, trails and lanes
SeaExamples Seascapes Ports, harbours and docks Photographers Gustave Le Gray: Combination prints Gustave Le Gray: Seascapes Gustave Le Gray: Cherbourg (4-6 August 1858) Henry Stuart Wortley: Seascapes with clouds Valdemar Myhre: [Rocky coasts with surf, Denmark] (ca 1900-1910) *** Joel Meyerowitz: Bay / Sky *** Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Exposed Marine pollution Mandy Barker: Environmental damage through plastic waste of the seas
Water and waterfallsIntroduction Water in the landscape From the mountains to the sea Landscape: Rivers and streams Landscape: Lakes, ponds, meres, reed beds and lagoons *** Waterfalls Seascapes Niagara Falls Hugh Lee Pattinson: Niagara Falls Charles Lyell on Niagara Falls (1845) Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853) George Stacy: Niagara Falls Alexander Henderson: Niagara Falls *** George Barker: Niagara Falls *** James T. Gardner: Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, and Fourth Annual Report... (1880) *** Niagara Falls Yosemite California: Yosemite: Bridal Veil Fall *** California: Yosemite: Yosemite Falls *** Notable waterfalls J.P. Doremus: Passaic Falls & Vicinity [Series] *** Case studies Herrin Gallery: Columbia River Scenery, via The Dalles, Portland, and Astoria, Navigation Company Steamers *** John Blakemore: All Flows *** Backgrounds and foregrounds Water as an element in studio backgrounds and foregrounds
Regional studiesIntroduction Nineteenth century landscape photographers Local photographers Local photographers in Asia in the nineteenth century
Landscapes of AsiaIntroduction The context for nineteenth century photography in Asia Missionaries in Asia Military background in Asia Photographers Photographers in nineteenth century Asia John Thomson: Foochow and the River Min (1870-1871) *** *** Fred Bremner: Baluchistan Local photographers in Asia in the nineteenth century
Landscapes of EuropeIntroduction The context for nineteenth century photography in Europe Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) Types of early British landscape photographers Early French landscape photographers Reasons for French pre-eminence in nineteenth century landscape photography Preserving paint in collapsible tubes Eugène Cuvelier: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Camille Silvy: River Scene (1858) Landscape photography elsewhere in Europe
Landscapes of North AmericaIntroduction Landscape photography in nineteenth century North America Surveys of the American West Landscape surveys of the American West Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869) U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869) Survey west of the 100th Parallel - George Montague Wheeler (1869-1879) Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874) River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872) Significant locations Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross A Rephotographic Survey of the American West: Mountain of the Holy Cross Utah: Devil's Slide California: Yosemite Valley Photographers Samuel A. Bemis: The White Mountains of New Hampshire Thomas Easterly: Chouteau's Pond Elias Olcott Beaman: The Grand Canyon (1871) *** William Henry Jackson: Landscapes John K. Hillers: Landscapes of the American West C.R. Savage: Stereoviews of the American West Savage & Ottinger: Stereoviews of the American West Joshua Crissman: Yellowstone National Park, illustrated by 122 views. (ca 1876) *** Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA) John P. Soule: California: Yosemite: Stereocards (ca 1870) *** George Fiske: Yosemite H.H. Bennett: Wisconsin Dells Stephen J Sedgwick: Announcement of Prof. S. J. Sedgwick's illustrated course of lectures and catalogue of stereoscopic views of scenery in all parts of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains (1879-1880) *** John Carbutt: Landscapes of the American West Duhem & Bro.: Beauties of the Rocky Mountains. (1869-1879) [Series] *** L.A. Huffman: The Rage of Huffman and the Calmness of Nig (1883) Lily E. White: Landscapes *** E.C. LaRue: Landscapes in Utah and Arizona (1922) *** Ansel Adams: Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1946) Edward Weston: Oceano Dunes Brett Weston: Deserts Mitch Dobrowner: Landscapes *** Railroads The importance of railroads in the development of the American West James Fitzallen Ryder: Photographic Views on the Atlantic & Great Western Railway (1862) *** Andrew J. Russell: The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent, Taken Along the Line of the Union Pacific Railroad, West from Omaha, Nebraska A.J. Russell: Union Pacific R.R. views, across the continent, west from Omaha.[Series] (1868-1870) A.J. Russell: Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah (10 May 1869) *** Alexander Gardner and others: Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad Rephotographic Surveys Rephotographic Survey Project Mark Klett on The Rephotographic Survey Projects New Topographics New Topographics (1975) The acceptance of change William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia Robert Adams: The construction of suburbia Joel Sternfeld: Landscapes affected by natural and human activity *** Bill Owens: Suburbia
Landscapes of the Middle EastIntroduction Landscape photography in the Middle East during the nineteenth century Early photographers Early photographers in the Middle East Maxime du Camp: Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie (1852) Gustave Le Gray: Egypt Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) Surveys and exploration Palestine Exploration Fund Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai American Palestine Exploration Society
Remnants of the Ancient and Classical worldIntroduction Introduction to Remnants of the Ancient and Classical world Travelers to the Ancient and Classical World Photographers on the Grand Tour Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862) Egypt: Archaeological sites Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids Egypt: The Sphinx Egypt: Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser), Sakkarah (Saqqara) Egypt: Colossi of Memnon Egypt: Dendara Egypt: Edfou Egypt: Karnak Egypt: Kom Ombo Egypt: Luxor Egypt: Philae Egypt: Thebes Egypt: Thebes: Medinet Habu - Medinet Haboo (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III) Egypt: Valley of the Kings Egypt - Photographers Jules Itier: Egypt Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia: Negatives Louis de Clercq: Egypt Maxime du Camp: Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie (1852) John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) Francis Frith: Books on Egypt, Sinai and Palestine Francis Frith: Egypt Francis Frith: Stereoviews: Egypt, Nubia and the Middle East Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Egypt (1862) Gustave Le Gray: Egypt William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) H. Béchard: The Pyramids Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt The difficulties of photographing archaeological sites The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) Egypt: Archaeological finds Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti Egypt: Cleopatra's Needle Greece Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Parthenon Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Erechtheion Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Propylaia Greece: Athens: Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion) Alfred-Nicolas Normand: Greece *** William J. Stillman: Athens: Acropolis (1868-1870) Walter Hege: Greece: Athens: The Acropolis (1928-1930) *** Italy: Rome Italy: Rome: The Colosseum Italy: Rome: Arch of Constantine Italy: Rome: Forum Romanum Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg: Rome *** Italy: Rome: Forum Traiani Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome James Anderson: The Roman Forum *** James Anderson: The Colosseum *** John Henry Parker: Recent Excavations in Rome: Made in 1868 Carlo Baldassare Simelli: Rome Robert Rive: Rome Michele Amodio: Pompeii *** Italy: Pompeii John Shaw Smith: Pompeii Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii Auguste Lesouëf: Pompeii (1880)
Straight landscape photographyIntroduction From Pictorialism to Straight landscape photography Photographers Paul Strand Ansel Adams and Straight landscape photography Ansel Adams Ansel Adams: The New Ansel Adams Photography Series Edward Weston: Point Lobos Edward Weston: Oceano Dunes
LiteratureIntroduction Illustrated fiction and poetry Authors, poets and playwrights Authors Poets *** Alfred Tennyson Narratives Introduction to photographically illustrated narratives Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Biblical *** Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Mythological Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Arthurian Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Historical *** Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Shakespearean Meade Brothers Studio: Seven Ages of Man (ca 1860) Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Dickensian *** Henry Peach Robinson: Little Red Riding Hood C. Eckenrath: Hansel & Gretel *** Francis Frith: Illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hyperion (1865) SIP: Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours [Series] *** Poetry Adelaide Hanscom Leeson: Sonnets from the Portuguese (ca. 1916) Man Ray: 1929 Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu Poetry (of a sort...) Introduction to poetry related to photography Photographic Phenomena, or the new school of portrait painting (1842) Marketing: Root's Daguerrean Gallery (1853) Introduction to the carte de visite album Lillian E. Curtis: The Lost Photograph (1874) C. G. Blatt's Photographic Emporium, Bernville, PA (1870s) William D. Jackson, Sr.: Trade card from Waco, Texas (1880-1900) To My Sweetheart's Kodak (1890) Books for children Books for children Fiction and the reality of travel Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872? References to photography in popular literature Photograph albums in popular literature Contemporary use of photography in literature The contemporary photographically illustrated novel
NarrativesIntroduction Introduction to photographically illustrated narratives Types of narratives Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Mythological Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Arthurian Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Historical *** Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Shakespearean Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Dickensian *** Photographers Hill & Adamson: Narrative sequence - In pensive mood (1845) Henry Peach Robinson: Little Red Riding Hood C. Eckenrath: Hansel & Gretel *** Francis Frith: Illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hyperion (1865) Duane Michels: The Spirit Leaves the Body (1968) *** Fotonovelas Introduction to Fotonovelas
PoetryIntroduction Introduction to poetry related to photography Poems related to photography Photographic Phenomena, or the new school of portrait painting (1842) Lillian E. Curtis: The Lost Photograph (1874) To My Sweetheart's Kodak (1890) Joel Benton: The Kodak Fiend Joseph C. Lincoln: The Old Daguerreotypes Ernest Knoll: Homer with a Camera Thomas Hardy: The Photograph Shirley Toulson: A Photograph Philip Larkin: Lines On A Young Lady's Photograph Album George Oppen: From a Photograph (1962) Margaret Atwood: This is a Photograph of Me Wislawa Szymborska: Photograph from September 11 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Camera Poems as a marketing tool Marketing: Root's Daguerrean Gallery (1853) Stiles P. Armsbury (Adams, Jefferson County, N.Y.): Pro Bono Publico (10 June 1858) John Day (Wayne Township, OH): A seated man holding a book {John W. See] Introduction to the carte de visite album C. G. Blatt's Photographic Emporium, Bernville, PA (1870s) William D. Jackson, Sr.: Trade card from Waco, Texas (1880-1900) Garfield's Electric Light Studio, 329 Broad St. (1896) Photographers William Morris Grundy: Sunshine in the Country: A Book of Rural Poetry (1861) *** Adelaide Hanscom Leeson: Sonnets from the Portuguese (ca. 1916) Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu
NatureIntroduction Introduction to nature photography Themes within nature Nature as fabrication and illusion Props, accessories and novelties: Trees and stumps Dioramas in Natural History Museums Processes Daguerreotypes: Nature *** Photographers John Edward Saché: Studies of Indian insects Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein: Die gestielten crinoiden der Siboga-expedition (1907) [Sea stars - Crinoids] *** Eliot Porter: Colour Joseph Holmes: amnh (American Museum of Natural History) Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust *** Contemporary Contemporary examples of nature photography
Climate and weatherIntroduction Introduction to weather Meterological conditions Weather: Clouds Weather: Fog and mist *** Weather: Lightning Weather: Rain Weather: Rainbows *** Weather: Snow *** Events China: Typhoon (September 1874) Elmer & Tenney (Winona, Minn.): E. & T. Minnesota Snow - View Series of 1881 - Snow Blockade Views *** Photographers William B. Post: Snowscapes *** André Kertész: Washington Square Wilson A. Bentley: Photomicrographs of snowflakes Richard Neuhauss: Photomicrographs of snowflakes *** Mitch Dobrowner: Storms
CloudsIntroduction Weather: Clouds Clouds & Combination Printing Photographers Gustave Le Gray: Combination prints George N. Barnard: Rebel Works in front of Atlanta Charles Marville: Vue du ciel de Paris, de la fenetre de l'artiste *** Clough & Kimball (Concord, N.H.): Views taken on The Summit of Mt. Washington during The Winter of 1870-71 Henry Stuart Wortley: Seascapes with clouds Carlo Baldassare Simelli: Cloud studies *** Richard Neuhauss: Cloud Atlas (1889-1891) *** Alfred Stieglitz: Equivalents Manfred Curry: A travers les nuages (ca. 1932) *** Laure Albin-Guillot: Ciels [Portfolio] (1944) *** Edward Weston: Clouds Mitch Dobrowner: Storms
LightningIntroduction Weather: Lightning Photographers Grabriel Loppé: Paris: Eiffel Tower *** William N. Jennings: Lightning ***
TornadosIntroduction Introduction to tornados Photographers George Barker: Louisville Tornado (1890) *** Mitch Dobrowner: Storms
TyphoonsMajor typhoons China: Typhoon (September 1874)
CollectionsIntroduction Natural history museum collections *** Photographers Joseph Holmes: amnh (American Museum of Natural History)
EnvironmentThe spread of suburbia William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia David Maisel: Oblivion Robert Adams: The construction of suburbia Environmental destruction Edward Burtynsky: What Hath Man Wrought? John Darwell: Legacy - Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Bruce Haley: Disfigured Landscapes Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust *** Mandy Barker: Environmental damage through plastic waste of the seas Land art Andy Goldsworthy: Books Richard Long: On-site sculptures Robert Smithson: On-site sculptures Environmental photograms Harry Nankin: Contact 2003-2004 Harry Nankin: Rain
FaunaIntroduction Introduction to fauna and the animal kingdom Trophies and hung game Different ways of seeing animals Animals in the wild The genius of animal photography Smithsonian National Zoo - Contemporary photography Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Animal photographs John Dillwyn LLewelyn and his stuffed animals Adolphe Braun: Cows and oxen Eadweard Muybridge: Animals in motion Diverse perspectives on animals *** Animals as photographic props Props, accessories and novelties: Horses Props, accessories and novelties: Elephants *** Conclusions Animals conclusions
AnimalsIntroduction Introduction to fauna and the animal kingdom Trophies and hung game Taxidermists and taxidermy Animals in the wild Different ways of seeing animals The genius of animal photography Animals Elephants Lions *** Tigers *** Camels Deer Wolves *** Monkeys, chimpanzees and apes *** Giraffes *** Zebras *** Hippopotami *** Snakes Alligators and crocodiles Bears *** Rabbits and hares Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Animal photographs John Dillwyn LLewelyn and his stuffed animals Comte de Montizon: London Zoo J.-E.-H., Bon Le Couteulx de Canteleu: La Chasse du loup, par,... avec des planches photographiées d'après nature par Crémière, Hanfstaengel et Platel (1861) *** Frank Haes: Stereocard details of London Zoo (ca. 1865) James Green and James H. Gardiner: British Batrachians and Reptiles (ca 1896) Eadweard Muybridge: Animals in motion Advert for J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Book review of J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Ottomar Anschütz: Animal studies *** Formats Daguerreotypes: Nature *** Cartes de visite: Nature Cabinet cards: Animals Zoos Smithsonian National Zoo - Contemporary photography Changing perspectives Diverse perspectives on animals *** Conclusions Animals conclusions
BirdsIntroduction Relationships with birds Hung game *** Carrier-pigeons René Patrice Proudhon Dagron: Photomicrographs, carrier-pigeons and the beseiged city of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) Contemporary examples Contemporary photographs of birds *** Photographers William Notman: Our birds of prey: or, The eagles, hawks, and owls of Canada By Henry G. Vennor ... With 30 photographic illustrations by Wm. Notman (1876) *** Burton Brothers: The Moa of New Zealand *** Francis Blake: Pigeons in Flight (ca 1889) *** Terry Evans: Birds in collections ***
Domesticated animalsLivestock photography Early livestock photography Dogs Dogs Horses Horses Louis-Jean Delton: Horses Advert for J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Book review of J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Francis Blake: "Cow Pony" at sharp canter (ca 1886) *** Cattle, bulls, cows and oxen Cattle, bulls, cows and oxen Adolphe Braun: Cows and oxen Sheep Sheep Goats Goats *** Pigs Pigs *** Fowl Chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese *** Photographers Leon Crémière: Dogs *** Eli Lotar: Slaughterhouse (ca 1929) *** D'Ora: Slaughterhouse series (1948-1958) *** Meagan O'Donnell: Man's Best Friend (2009) ***
Endangered and extinct speciesIntroduction Endangered and extinct species Crystal Palace Exhibitions: 1855 Crystal Palace - Models of Extinct Animals
FishExamples Fish in the nineteenth century *** Fishing as a leisure activity Fishing in the nineteenth century *** Scientific understanding U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Woods Hole, Mass. - 1871 *** Sandra J. Raredon (NMNH): X-Rays of fish ***
Insects, arachnids and others Contemporary photographs of insects Introduction Introduction to insects, arachnids and others Photomicrographs of insects Butterflies and moths Photographers John Edward Saché: Studies of Indian insects Jean-Pierre Sudre: Insectes *** Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee
Mythical beastsIntroduction Mythical beasts Photomontage and mythical beasts Mythical beasts Mythical animals - The Centaur Photographers Frederick Sommer (1905-1999)
PetsIntroduction Pets Dogs Dogs Contemporary photographs of dogs Dogs: Photographers Dogs and Elliott Erwitt *** William Wegman: Dogs *** Malevolent dogs Tony Mendoza: Dogs *** John Divola: Dogs Chasing My Car in the Deserts Cats Cats
ZoosIntroduction Zoos The dilemma of zoos Photographers Comte de Montizon: London Zoo Frank Haes: Stereocard details of London Zoo (ca. 1865) Frederick York: Lantern slides: London Zoological Gardens (1870) *** H.J. Barby: Copenhagen Zoo *** August Frederik Willem Vogt: Vues des Pays-Bas [Edition originale] (ca 1920-1940) [Series] *** Volker Seding: Zoos ***
FloraIntroduction Introduction to flora Still life: Understanding the term Early floral arrangements Fruits Apples Pears Trees Early photographs of trees Leaves Introduction to leaves Photographers Eugène Atget: Trees Edward Weston: Vegetables Brigitte Carnochan: Fruit *** Botanical Gardens London: Kew Gardens ***
FlowersIntroduction Introduction to flowers Types of flowers Flowers: Roses Flowers: Calla lilies *** Flowers: Tulips *** 19th century Flowers: A 19th Century perspective Early floral arrangements Circle of Mary Dillwyn: Flowers (ca 1853) *** Eugène Atget: Flowers and nature studies Charles Hippolyte Aubry: Botanical and flower studies Eugène Chauvigné: Flowers *** Adolphe Braun: Flower studies Ogawa Kazumasa: Flowers Floral rememberances Floral memorials and floral wreaths Pictorialism Flowers: A Pictorialist perspective 20th century Flowers: Through the 20th Century Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States Charles Jones: Flowers Dain L. Tasker: X-rays of flowers *** Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1952) Karl Blossfeldt: Books *** Karl Blossfeldt‘s Original "Urformen der Kunst" / "Art Forms in Nature" Albert Renger-Patzsch: Flowers and botanical studies *** Max Baur: Flowers *** Imogen Cunningham: Flowers, leaves and plant forms *** Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers *** Cy Decosse: Gioco di Luce / Play of the Light *** Ron van Dongen: Flora Charles Grogg: Sent from the Garden *** Jan Saudek: The Story of Flowers (ca 1987) *** Studies Flower studies (Part I) Flower studies (Part II) Flower genera and species The study of specific genera or species
FruitsIntroduction Introduction to fruits Types of fruit Apples Pears Grapes and vines Photographers Roger Fenton: Still lifes Brigitte Carnochan: Fruit ***
TreesPhotographing trees Julius Friedrich Sachse: Botanical Photography (1890) Examples Early photographs of trees Pictorialism and trees Snapshots: Trees A 20th century and contemporary perspective on trees Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Trees Hill & Adamson: A tree at Colinston [Midlothian, Scotland] William Donaldson Clark: Trees *** Louis Crette: Trees *** Félix Teynard: Trees *** John Kirk: Trees *** G.O. Brown (active 1860-1889): Battlefield of the Wilderness *** Eugène Atget: Trees Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The Bodmer Oak (Forests of Fontainebleau) Charles Leander Weed: The big trees of California (1858-1860s) *** Carleton E. Watkins: Trees Thomas Houseworth & Co: Calaveras Big Trees I.W. Taber: [Logging and transportation of "World's Fair Big Tree, Mammoth Forest, California"] *** Félix Bonfils: Trees *** Andrew Young: Woodburytypes of trees Alfred Stieglitz: Trees *** Leonard Misonne: Trees Frederick Henry Evans: Woodland photographs for Memorial Edition of the Works of George Meredith (1911) *** Oskar & Theodor Hofmeister: Landscapes *** William Dassonville: Trees Laure Albin-Guillot: Arbres [Portfolio] (1943) *** Rudolf Koppitz: Trees *** Josef Sudek: Trees *** Josef Sudek: Vanished Statues in Mionsi Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Early colour photographs of trees and tracks Albert Renger-Patzsch: Trees *** August Sander: Trees *** Edward Weston: Trees *** Brett Weston: Trees *** Ansel Adams: Trees Jerry Uelsmann: Trees Cedars of Lebanon The Cedars of Lebanon Forest of Fontainebleau Photographs of the Forests of Fontainebleau Eugène Cuvelier: France: Forest of Fontainebleau William Drooke Harrison: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Gustave Le Gray: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The road to Chailly (Forests of Fontainebleau) Bois de Boulogne, Paris Paris: Bois de Boulogne Trees as studio props Props, accessories and novelties: Trees and stumps Logging and forestry Darius Kinsey: Forestry and logging in the American North-West (1906-1940) Darius Kinsey: Stereoviews of logging in to American North-West Camoflage ***
VegetablesIntroduction Introduction to vegetables Photographers Edward Weston: Vegetables Charles Jones: Vegetables T. Enami: A Japanese Farmer and his Wife Henry Rox: Photosculptures *** Jerry Spagnoli: Heirloom Harvest (2015) ***
SeashellsExamples Seashells Photographers Edward Weston: Shells Ruth Bernhard: Shells ***
PhotojournalismIntroduction Introduction to photojournalism Daguerreotypes: Events Salt prints: Events Albumen prints: Events Journalists at war The technologies that allowed photojournalism to flourish Colour magazines John Bulmer: Sunday Times Magazine tear sheets Threats to photojournalism The decline of the photo magazines Painted press photographs and those with instructions Press photographs with paint or instructions Case studies Paul Nadar: Interview with Michel-Eugène Chevreul (8 September 1886) The execution of Ruth Synder (1929) Erich Salomon on press photography Teru Kuwayama: Photojournalism with a Holga Balazs Gardi: Basetrack One-Eight, Afghanistan (2010-2011) iPhone news applications *** Codes of conduct and ethics NPPA (National Press Photographers Association): Code of Ethics Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief (1994) Challenges Changes in contemporary photojournalism Image integrity in documentary photography and photojournalism
Early examples of photo reportageIntroduction Early examples of photo reportage Photographers Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris George N. Barnard: Oswego Mills (1853) Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856) Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
Early social commentaryIntroduction Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary Photographers Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow Archibald Burns: Edinburgh John Thomson: Street Life in London Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) Conclusions Thoughts of early social commentary
Weimar Germany (1919-1933)Introduction The aftermath of the First World War in Germany Cultural innovation in Weimar Germany Cinema German expressionism Fritz Lang: M (1931) *** German Expressionism: Vampyr (1932) Fritz Lang: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) *** Carl Mayer & Hans Janowitz: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) *** Photojournalism German illustrated magazines during the First World War AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung Photojournalists in Weimar Germany Erich Salomon on press photography Bauhaus Bauhaus László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Viewpoints New Objectivity Introduction to New Objectivity August Sander: Portraits Legacy The legacy of Weimar as photojournalists left Germany
Illustrated magazines and photojournalismIntroduction Introduction to illustrated magazines and photojournalism Interviews Paul Nadar: Interview with Michel-Eugène Chevreul (8 September 1886) Illustrated magazines German illustrated magazines during the First World War AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung USSR in Construction Photo-essays in LIFE magazine
AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte ZeitungIntroduction AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
Berliner Illustrierte ZeitungIntroduction Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung ***
LIFE magazineIntroduction Photo-essays in LIFE magazine LIFE magazine photographers Photographers Margaret Bourke-White: Fort Peck Dam W. Eugene Smith: The Spanish Village (1951) W. Eugene Smith: Man of Mercy (1954) W. Eugene Smith: Nurse Midwife *** W. Eugene Smith: Minamata
Picture PostIntroduction Picture Post
Rise of the illustrated magazineIntroduction The rise of the illustrated magazine Illustrated magazines in Germany German illustrated magazines during the First World War Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung *** AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung Illustrated magazines in Czechoslovakia Illustrated magazines in Czechoslovakia Illustrated magazines in the U.S.S.R. Illustrated magazines in U.S.S.R. USSR in Construction Illustrated magazines in France Illustrated magazines in France VU *** Illustrated magazines in The Nethelands Illustrated magazines in Holland Illustrated magazines in Switzerland Illustrated magazines in Switzerland Illustrated magazines in the USA Illustrated magazines in the USA Photo-essays in LIFE magazine LIFE magazine photographers Illustrated magazines in the UK Illustrated magazines in the UK Conclusions Early examples of magazines using photojournalism
USSR in ConstructionIntroduction Illustrated magazines in U.S.S.R. USSR in Construction USSR in Construction USSR in Construction: Issue listing
Emergence of the photo-agencyEarly photo-agencies Chusseau-Flaviens: The first French press photography agency
MagnumIntroduction Magnum Founders, In Celebration of Sixty Years Photographers W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project W. Eugene Smith: Minamata Magnum wet stamps Robert Capa: Magnum wet stamps *** Henri Cartier-Bresson: Magnum wet stamps *** Past and future Magnum Irrelevant? The complex legacy of Magnum
Photo-essaysIntroduction Introduction to photo-essays Photo-essays in LIFE magazine Examples of photo-essays Margaret Bourke-White: Fort Peck Dam W. Eugene Smith: The Spanish Village (1951) Henri Cartier-Bresson: Notes de voyage en Chine (1954) W. Eugene Smith: Man of Mercy (1954) Herb Snitzer: Summerfield School LIFE LIFE magazine photographers
PhotomontageIntroduction Understanding the terms Introduction to photomontage C.W. Applegreen creates a composite photograph Composite photographs Composite and combination prints: Defined George N. Barnard: Composite photographs during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Photomontage Photomontage - Defined Henry Hering - Alfred Reeves: Photograph. The Kings and Queens of England André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Photomontages - Mosaïques Eugène de Tarade: Photographic fantasies Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875) Unidentified photographer / collagist: Collaged portrait (1850s-1870s) *** William Notman: Photomontages Eli Lotar: Le Theatre Alfred Jarry et l’Hostilite Publique (1930) J. Pécsi: Photo und Publizität - Photo and Advertising (1930) Portugal 1934: Photomontage as propaganda Marcel-G. Lefrancq: Les onzes Mois de la bonne Année (taken 1939-1945) *** Teresa Zarnower: Obrona Warszawy - The defense of Warsaw (1942-1945) Herbert Matter: Advertising Val Telberg: Photomontages Harold Feinstein: Photomontage *** Alan Lennon: Photomontages Collage Collage - Defined Decorated pages in nineteenth century photograph albums Lady Mary Georgiana Filmer: Decorated album pages Techniques and processes Daguerreotypes: Multiple images Albumen prints: Photomontage Cartes de visite: Photomontage and photo collage Cabinet cards: Photomontage Gelatin silver prints: Photomontage Spirit photography William H. Mumler: Spirit photography William Hope: Spirit photography and séances *** Richard Boursnell & J. Evans Sterling (London Spiritualists): Spirit photographs *** Cottingley Fairies Reusing card photographs Bohumil Stepan: Satirical photocollages Contemporary artworks using card photographs The Whimsical Carte de Visite World of the Carte Horse Conspiracy and Archived Associates... Assemblage Assemblage - Defined Conclusions Conclusions to photomontage
CollageIntroduction Collage - Defined Patent: Wm. A. Pratt, Improvement in Colouring Daguerreotype-Pictures (1846) Decorated album pages Decorated pages in nineteenth century photograph albums Frances Carlhian: Album page showing the Shah of Persia - Nasir al-Din Shah Lady Mary Georgiana Filmer: Decorated album pages Princess Alexandra of Wales: Album of designs, incorporating photographs (ca 1866-1869) Emily Clare Harvey: The Harvey Album (1868) *** Photographers Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875) Unidentified photographer / collagist: Collaged portrait (1850s-1870s) *** Spirit photography Cottingley Fairies William H. Mumler: Spirit photography William Hope: Spirit photography and séances *** Modernism and collage Paul Citroen: Metropolis Erwin Blumenfeld: Collages *** Herbert Strässer: Photo collages *** Collage and play Introduction to FotoFun Appropriating card photographs Bohumil Stepan: Satirical photocollages The Whimsical Carte de Visite World of the Carte Horse Conspiracy and Archived Associates... Contemporary artworks using card photographs
Commercial uses of collage and photomontageIntroduction Early examples of commercial collage *** Examples of commercial collage ***
Composite and combination printsIntroduction Composite and combination prints: Defined Combination Printing (1870) C.W. Applegreen creates a composite photograph Making a composite portrait of a typical criminal (1879) Composite and combination prints: Portraits Examples Gustave Le Gray: Combination prints George N. Barnard: Rebel Works in front of Atlanta Camille Silvy: River Scene (1858) William Notman: Photomontages Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Two Ways of Life Contemporary criticism Contemporary criticism of Mr. Rejlander and Mr. Robinson (1859)
Digital photomontageIntroduction Digital photomontage Photomosaics Robert Silvers: Photomosaics Photographers Maggie Taylor: Landscape of dreams and other visions Fran Forman: Photomontage *** Paul Biddle: The Archipelago of Fantasy Islands Erik Johansson: Digital photomontages *** Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations and other series
Early political photomontage Introduction to political photomontage *** Examples Photomontage during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Photomontage during the Paris Commune (1871) John Heartfield: Political photomontages Portugal 1934: Photomontage as propaganda El Lissitzky (Graphic design and photomontages): Album dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the creation of the RKKA - Russian: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (1934) ***
Exaggeration photo postcardsIntroduction Exaggeration postcards Photographers William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards Henry M. Beach: Exaggeration photo postcards
Fine art photomontageIntroduction Fine art photomontage Photographers Jerry Uelsmann: Trees Paul Biddle: The Archipelago of Fantasy Islands
Political collage from 1970 onwardsIntroduction Political photomontage and collage from the 1970s onwards Photographers Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home Postcards Postcards with a message *** Unemployment in Thatcher's Britain
Political collage in Weimar GermanyIntroduction Political collage in Weimar Germany Photographers John Heartfield: Political photomontages Paul Citroen: Metropolis Exhibitions Film und Foto - FiFo (1929)
PictorialismIntroduction to Pictorialism Introduction to Pictorialism The roots of Pictorialism Gum bichromate prints Naturalism and Pictorialism Naturalism and Pictorialism Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) Peter Henry Emerson: Marsh Leaves (1895) Photo-Club de Paris Photo-Club de Paris: Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894 Photo-Club de Paris: Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895 Photo-Club de Paris: Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896 Photo-Club de Paris: Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897 Key subjects for Pictorialism Pictorialism and trees Flowers: A Pictorialist perspective Pictorialism and the landscape Pictorialism: Landscapes of ice and snow Pictorialism and the innocence of children Pictorialism and the portrait Pictorialism, the nude and erotica Pictorialism and architecture Pictorialism: Still lifes *** Pictorialists and the Autochrome Case studies Robert Demachy: Struggle Robert Demachy: Landscapes *** Edouard Hannon: Belgium: Landscapes *** Edward Steichen: The Flatiron Edward Steichen: Rodin's statue of Balzac (1908) Edward Steichen: Pictorialist portraits Edward Steichen: Fashion portraits showing the clothing of fashion designer Paul Poiret for the French magazine "L'Art de la Robe" (April 1911) *** Alvin Langdon Coburn: Portraits Eva Watson-Schutze: Portraits *** Mary Albert Wiggins: Pictorialist portraits *** Gertrude Käsebier: Portraits *** William Mortensen: Portraits James Craig Annan: Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures (1896) *** Alexander Keighley: Pictorialism Clarence H. White: Portraits Clarence H. White: Ring Toss (1899) Edward S. Curtis and Pictorialism William Dassonville: Trees Adelaide Hanscom Leeson: Sonnets from the Portuguese (ca. 1916) Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes Edward Weston: Pictorialist portraits Fred Judge: UK: Postcards Japanese Art Photography preserved on Postcards *** J. Craig Annan: Portraits *** Charles Gaspar: Belgian Pictorialist Concluding remarks Conclusions on Pictorialism
American influences on PictorialismIntroduction American influences on Pictorialism Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession The influence of Alfred Stieglitz on American pictorialism Camera Notes *** Camera Work Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, 291 Fifth Avenue, New York City The links between Camera Work and contemporary art Photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910) Clarence H. White School of Photography William Dassonville: Trees Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes Edward Steichen: Pictorialist portraits Edward Weston: Pictorialist portraits
Global trends in PictorialismIntroduction Introduction to global trends in Pictorialism International connections between the Pictorialist photographic salons France Pictorialism in France The Photo Club of Paris (Le Photo Club de Paris) *** Photo-Club de Paris: Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894 Photo-Club de Paris: Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895 Photo-Club de Paris: Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896 Photo-Club de Paris: Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897 Belgium Pictorialism in Belgium Gustave Marissiaux: Visions d’Artistes (1908) *** Edouard Hannon: Belgium: Landscapes *** Germany Pictorialism in Germany Austria Pictorialism in Austria Sweden Pictorialism in Sweden Italy James Craig Annan: Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures (1896) *** Spain Pictorialism in Spain José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886-1982) Greece Nelly's: Greek refugees from Asia Minor *** Israel and Palestine Yaakov Benor-Kalter: Photogravures of Israel and Palestine *** Russia Pictorialism in Russia Alexander Grinberg: Nudes China Introduction to fine art photography and Pictorialism in China Donald M. Mennie: Pictorialist China Japan Pictorialism in Japan Japanese pictorialism - Bunka Shashin-shu (1922) Hawaii Caroline Haskins Gurrey: Portraits from Hawaii Australia Pictorialism in Australia
Linked Ring BrotherhoodLinked Ring Brotherhood Pictorialism in Great Britain - The Linked Ring Brotherhood Members of the Linked Ring Brotherhood London Salon 1895 A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895 (London) Photographers Frederick H. Evans: Cathedrals Alexander Keighley: Pictorialism
Pictorialism RebornIntroduction Pictorial reborn or the "New Pictorialism" Examples The "New Pictorialism" in Landscape Photography
Pictorialist publicationsIntroduction Pictorialist publications
Camera NotesCamera Notes Camera Notes *** Camera Notes: Issues and contents
Camera WorkCamera Work The influence of Alfred Stieglitz on American pictorialism Camera Work Camera Work - An Apology Photo-Secession members Camera Work: Issues and contents The links between Camera Work and contemporary art
Die Kunst in der PhotographieDie Kunst in der Photographie Die Kunst in der Photographie (1897) Die Kunst in der Photographie (1898) Die Kunst in der Photographie (1899) Die Kunst in der Photographie (1900) Die Kunst in der Photographie (1901)
Photo-Club de ParisIntroduction to the Photo-Club de Paris Introduction to the Photo-Club de Paris *** Annual exhibitions Photo-Club de Paris: Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894 Photo-Club de Paris: Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895 Photo-Club de Paris: Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896 Photo-Club de Paris: Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897
Wiener Photographische Blätter - Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In WienWiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1894) Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1896) ***
Post 1917 PictorialismIntroduction Post 1917 Pictorialism Photographers Clarence H. White School of Photography Clarence H. White *** Canadian Pictorialism: Frederick George Ashton Marcus Adams: Pictorialist portraits
PortraitIntroduction Introduction to the portrait Early examples of portraiture Early stylistic choices with portraiture Having a portrait taken Portrait factory on Broadway, New York Visit to Plumbe's Gallery, New York (1846) Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles of women Interesting group posed for a Daguerreotype by a friend of the family / Interesting and valuable result (1855) Letter from W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War, to Major General Z. Taylor, Commanding Army of Occupation, Monterey, Mexico (5 October 1846) Guidelines for sitters Introduction for guidelines for sitters Guidelines for sitters - Southworth & Hawes (1852) Albert S. Southworth: Suggestions to Ladies Who Sit for Daguerreotypes (1854 and 1855) Guidelines for sitters - Mons. Blume (Ireland) William Notman: Photography. Things You Ought to Know (1866) Guidelines for sitters - Jesse Gostick (1860) Tintype: Hints for dress Guidelines for sitters on cartes de visite Hints to Sitters and Visitors - Ross' Photographic Gallery, Petaluma, California (1886) Hints to Sitters - Newcombe & Baird, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1888) Guidelines for sitters - American Journal of Photography (1890) When being Photographed (1896) Sitting for photography Photographs taken during the same sitting Complaints about quality Complaints about portraiture The risks of portraiture The risks of portraiture to the sitter and the photographer Daguerreotype portraits W. & F. Langenheim: Daguerreotype portraits Robert Cornelius: Daguerreotype portraits Jeremiah Gurney: Daguerreotype portraits *** Samuel Broadbent: Daguerreotype portraits Southworth and Hawes: Daguerreotype portraits Rufus P. Anson: Daguerreotype portraits *** J.E. Mayall: Daguerreotype portraits Antoine Claudet: Daguerreotype portraits William Edward Kilburn: Daguerreotype portraits Richard Beard: Daguerreotype portraits Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard: Daguerreotype portraits *** J.T. Zealy: African American slaves Lorenzo G. Chase: Anthropological studies Salt print portraits Salt prints: Portraits Hill & Adamson: Portraits Ambrotype portraits Ambrotypes: Portrait Japanese ambrotypes Studio portraits Nadar: Portraits Studio portraits in North Africa and the Middle East The "Artistic" portrait The "artistic" portrait Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits Lady Clementina Hawarden: Photographic studies So few smiles Smiling in photography The "helping hand" and the "hidden mother" The "helping hand", "hidden mother" and "hidden father" portraits Front and back views Front and back view portraits Carte de visite portraits Introduction to cartes de visite portraits André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Uncut carte de visite sheets Cartes de visite: Celebrities Giuseppe Garibaldi Camille Silvy: Carte de visite portraits Cabinet card portraits Cabinet cards: Portraits Cabinet cards: Celebrities Thomas Houseworth: Houseworth's Celebrities Tintype portraits Tintypes: Portraits Tin Type Album: Little gem tintypes Galleries of the famous Introduction to galleries of the famous Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield: Men of Mark (1876-1883) Lock and Whitfield (attributed): The Theatre (1877-1897) *** Galerie Contemporaine, Litteraire, Artistique Nadar: Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique Paris - Artiste *** Paris-Theatre / Paris-Portrait Figaro-Album *** Herbert Rose Barraud: Portraits Pictorialism Pictorialism and the portrait Pictorialism and the innocence of children Clarence H. White: Portraits The start of the colour portrait Autochromes: Portrait Modernism and the portrait The move from Pictorialism to Modernism in portraiture August Sander: Portraits Helmar Lerski: Portraits Erwin Blumenfeld: The concealed portrait The portraiture of celebrity Yousuf Karsh: Portraits Vernacular portraits Photobooth portraits Mike Disfarmer: Heber Springs portraits Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography Bust portraits Bust portraits Humanistic portraiture The Family of Man Exhibition (1955) Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: The first exhibition "Bali-Kino" Berlin (October 1974) Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: What‘s our Concern with Strangers? Diversity in portraiture Photographers who photograph representations of people Post-modernism Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers Ruud van Empel: Portraits *** The contemporary portrait Defacing portraits The defacing and destruction of portraits Conclusions Keeping abreast of changes in portraiture
Composite portraitsIntroduction Composite and combination prints: Portraits
EmotionsTypes of emotion Emotions *** Emotions: Alienation *** Emotions: Fear and shock *** Emotions: Frustration *** Emotions: Fun and laughter *** Emotions: Joy *** Emotions: Loss *** Emotions: Love and lust *** Emotions: Kissing Emotions: Maternal *** Emotions: Shame and humiliation *** Case studies Robert Demachy: Struggle Dorothea Lange: The Migrant Mother Robert Doisneau: Un regard oblique - variants Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) The Holocaust in progress *** Robert Capa: D-Day, Normandy (6 June 1944) David Moore: Migrant Woman (1966) Kevin Bubriski: Pilgrimage: Looking At Ground Zero (2001) *** Research on emotions Dr Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions (1876) Oscar Gustave Rejlander: The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (London, 1872).
Group portraitsExamples Group portraits Military formations Mole & Thomas: Symbols of American pride Case studies Billy Bowlegs William Notman: Photomontages
Occupations and rolesIntroduction Introduction to occupationals Occupationals using different techiques Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles of women Cartes de visite: Occupations and roles William Carrick: Russian occupationals J. Monstein: Russian types Tintypes: Occupationals Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles Case studies of specific occupations Turkey: Porters *** Street vendors Postmen and mail carriers Bootblacks and shoeshines Water carriers and water vendors Samurai Geishas Courtesans
Actors and performersIntroduction Introduction to actors and performers Techniques and processes Daguerreotypes: Actors *** Shakespearean characters from "Illustrated Tallis's Shakespeare" (1860) Ambrotypes: Actors *** Albumen prints: Actors Cartes de visite: Actors Cabinet cards: Actors Stereoviews: Portraits: Actors Gelatin silver prints: Actors Actors and performers Sarah Bernhardt Jenny Lind (1820-1887) Photographers Alexander Brodie Melville: Description of a Mystic Play, as Performed in Ladak, Zascar &c. (1865) [Tibet] *** Martin Laroche: Actors and theatrical scenes Franck: Ces Petites Dames de Theatre (1862) *** Etienne Carjat: Actors and mimes *** Benjamin J. Falk: Actors *** Sarony: Actors Thomas Houseworth: Houseworth's Celebrities Arsene Houssaye: La Comedie Francaise (1880) *** Frank C. Bangs: Portraits of Elizabeth Brice *** Benjamin Strauss and Homer Peyton: Celebrity portraits Ross Verlag: Publisher of real photographic postcards Eli Lotar: Le Theatre Alfred Jarry et l’Hostilite Publique (1930) George Hurrell: Actors *** Clarence Sinclair Bull: Actors *** Publications The Saturday Programme and Sketch Book *** Paris-Theatre / Paris-Portrait Lock and Whitfield (attributed): The Theatre (1877-1897) *** Vanity Fair Souvenirs Erinnerung an Oberammergau 1890 (Souvenir of Oberammergau 1890) Studio portraits Actors and film studio photographers Actors *** Performers Tightrope walkers Jugglers *** Clowns *** Mimes ***
ArtistsIntroduction Introduction to artists Pierre Petit: Les figures du temps, notices biographiques / photographies de Pierre Petit… (1861) *** Original sources The encounters between the London Daguerreotypist John Jabez Mayall and the artist John Turner (1847-1849) Artists at work Artists at work Victorian artists David Wilkie Wynfield: Portraits of Victorian painters and illustrators Studies of individual artists Salvador Dali Pablo Picasso *** Nickolas Muray: Frida Kahlo Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keefe Max Wolf and Joh. Palisa: Photographische Sternkarten (ca 1901-1904) *** Series on artists Photographers who have taken portrait series on artists Techniques and processes Daguerreotypes: Artists *** Albumen prints: Artists *** Cartes de visite: Artists ***
AthletesExamples Portraits of athletes *** Athletics, gymnastics and exercise *** The study of motion Studying the motion of athletes *** Each sport is distinct Photographers for different sports Photographers Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Sports and pastimes Leni Riefenstahl: Athletes ***
Authors, playwrights and poetsExamples Authors Poets *** Celebrated writers Alfred Tennyson Julia Margaret Cameron: Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Dirty Monk" (1865) Washington Irving *** Charles Dickens Victor Hugo
CelebritiesIntroduction Celebrity portrait photographers Techniques and processes Daguerreotypes: Celebrities Cartes de visite: Celebrities Cabinet cards: Celebrities Celebrities of their age Jenny Lind (1820-1887) Robert Howelett: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1857) Charles Darwin Samuel Morse *** Giuseppe Garibaldi Galleries of celebrities Franz Hanfstaengl: Portraits Maull & Polyblank: Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities (1856-1859) *** Ernest Edwards: Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs (1863) Album of photographic portraits of August persons and persons well-known in Russia (1865) Thomas Houseworth: Houseworth's Celebrities Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield: Men of Mark (1876-1883) Galerie Contemporaine, Litteraire, Artistique Nadar: Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique Paris-Theatre / Paris-Portrait Herbert Rose Barraud: Portraits Alvin Langdon Coburn: Men of Mark (1913) Alvin Langdon Coburn: More Men of Mark (1922) Photographers Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits Benjamin Strauss and Homer Peyton: Celebrity portraits Masters of the celebrity Yousuf Karsh: Portraits Andy Warhol: Portraits and appropriation Annie Leibovitz: Portraits Martin Schoeller: Portraits Photographers become celebrities Celebrity photographers who became celebrities
Circus performers and workersIntroduction Circus performers and workers Clowns *** X-rays X-rays of performers *** Photographers Adrien Tournachon: Circus acts *** Chas Eisenmann: Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts *** Frank Wendt: Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts
DancersExamples Dancers Photographers Kassian Cephas: In Den Kedaton te Jogjakarta Robert Demachy: Behind the scenes - Dancers *** Arthur Kales: Dancers *** Minya Diez-Duhrkoop: Dance masks by Lavinia Schulz (1924) *** Trude Fleischmann: Dancers *** Nickolas Muray: Dancers E.O. Hoppé: Ballets Russes *** Alfred Eisenstaedt: Ballet *** Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet (1945) Eleni Leoussi: Dance *** Dancers Martha Graham ***
MilitaryIntroduction Introduction to military portraits Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Military Illustrations based on Daguerreotypes: Military Letter from W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War, to Major General Z. Taylor, Commanding Army of Occupation, Monterey, Mexico (5 October 1846) Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848) Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin Ambrotypes Ambrotypes: Military Tintypes Tintypes: Military Cartes de visite Cartes de visite: Military Cabinet cards Cabinet cards: Military Crimean War (1854-1856) An anonymous soldier during the Crimean War (1854-1856) Roger Fenton: Crimean War (1854-1856) - Officers and men Cundall & Howlett: Crimean Heroes Indian Mutiny (1857-1858) Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Hodson's Horse Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871) Giuseppe Garibaldi Alessandro Pavia: Expedition of the Thousand American Civil War (1861-1865) Reasons for the popularity of the tintype during the American Civil War (1861-1865) American Civil War (1861-1865): Portraits in brass bezels *** Commanders and officers of the American Civil War (1861-1865) *** Soldiers of the American Civil War (1861-1865) American Civil War (1861-1865): Photograph albums Major General Henry Barnum Private George Lemon The French Army Louise Lafton (photographer) / Alexis Godillot (manufacturer): Album Photographique des Uniformes de L'Armées Françaises (1866) *** Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) Soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) *** Persia (Iran) Persian soldiers *** Russia Unidentified photographer: Types photographiés de l'armée russe (1880) *** Japan Samurai Massed military units Mole & Thomas: Symbols of American pride Documentation of the military U.S. Navy Flight School: Pilots *** Contemporary military Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits Night vision Night vision portraits *** Veterans Veterans
MusiciansIntroduction Introduction to musicians Italian street musicians - Pifferari Photographers specializing in musical genres Portraits of musicians *** Musical events Photographers Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Musicians *** Art Kane: The Great Jazz Musicians Herman Leonard: Jazz musicians and singers *** Musicians with their instruments Violinists and fiddlers *** Stringed instruments *** Wind instruments Pianos Accordions, harmoniums, melodeons and concertinas *** Barrel organs Guitars Harps Organs *** Percussion
Opera singersIntroduction *** Opera singers Jenny Lind (1820-1887) Adelina Patti (1843-1919) Marie Roze (1846-1926) *** Christine Nilsson (1843-1921) *** Max Alvary (1856-1898) *** Georg Anthes (1863-1922) *** Heinrich Vogl (1845-1900) *** Photographers Fritz Luckhardt: Opera singers Performances Erinnerung an Oberammergau 1890 (Souvenir of Oberammergau 1890)
PhotographersSelf portraits The first photographic self portrait? Hippolyte Bayard: Self portrait as a drowned man (1840) Self-portraits of photographers Shadows of photographers The photographer as a shadow participant Art that includes photographers How artists have portrayed lanternists, photographers and photography People taking photographs Illustrations of people taking photographs Photographs of people taking photographs Socializing Camera clubs and get-togethers of photographers *** Photographers photograph photographers Johan Hagemeyer: Portraits of Edward Weston (24 May 1935) *** Bill Jay: Photographers Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of photographers *** Mike Mandel: World of American Photography Baseball Cards Kurt Edward Fishback: Portraits of the American Photographic Community *** Nancy Lee Katz: Portraits of photographers and artists *** René de Carufel: The Photographer’s Eye Tim Mantoani: Polaroids of photographers *** David Kregenow: At Eye Level ***
PoliticiansIntroduction Introduction to politicians Photography and politicians in the nineteenth century Daguerreotypes: Politicians The Henry Clay case Cartes de visite: Politicians Cabinet cards: Politicians *** Henry Clay Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln: A photographic legacy Abraham Lincoln: Mourning Native American political delgations Indian delegations Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi Adolf Hitler and the use of propaganda The photographic portrayal of Adolf Hitler Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler - Nazi propaganda series Heinrich Hoffmann (Editor) & Josef Bürckel (Foreword): Hitler holt die Saar heim (1938) Satirical propaganda of the late 1930s Marinus: Anti-Nazi political photomontage in France Winston Churchill Winston Churchill - Wanted for incitement to Murder More recent politicians Portraits of politicians (1940-1970) *** Donald Trump Ivanka Trump - #UnwantedIvanka Political promotional items and memorabilia Photo-jewelry: Political Paperweights showing President McKinley *** Conclusions Conclusions on politicians
RoyaltyIntroduction Introduction to the portraiture of royalty Royalty and Photography in Europe, An Introduction Cabinet cards: Royalty *** British Royal Family Cartes de visite: British royalty Queen Victoria Henry Hering - Alfred Reeves: Photograph. The Kings and Queens of England Ghémar Frères: The Engagement of the future Queen Alexandra and Edward VII, Brussels, Belgium (September 1862) *** Portrait: Royalty: Suvenir of the Royal Visit to India (1876) Royal support for industry, the arts and photography in Victorian Britain *** Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862) Dejatch Alamayou Sally [Sarah] Bonetta Forbes (c. 1843-80) *** Princess Victoria Gouramma *** Royal dynasties Royal family of France Cartes de visite: French royalty *** François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian Royal family of Germany Royal family of Belgium Royal family of Austro-Hungary *** Royal family of Romania Royal family of Sweden Royal family of Russia Robinson & Roi: The Famous Glass Dress - Royal Robe of Princess Eulalia Carneiro & Gaspar - painted by J. Courtois: Empress Teresa Cristina and Pedro II of Brazil Royal family of Persia Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent Lala Deen Dayal: Sorabji Jehangir - Princes and Chiefs of India (1903) *** Royal family of Burma *** Royal family of Siam John Thomson: Royal family of Siam Felice Beato: Prince Kung / Prince Gong Qinwang of China Xunling: Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 *** Woodbury and Page: Ruling families of Southeast Asia *** Royal family of Japan Royal family of Hawaii *** Royal family of Tahiti *** Chief Cakobau of Bau, the self-proclaimed King of Fiji Royal family of Cambodia *** Violent deaths of notable royals François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian Death of the Prince Imperial (Prince Louis-Napoléon) - Killed 1st June, 1879, on the Hyotoyozi river. South Africa *** Perspectives on royalty Different perspectives on royalty *** Royal patronage of photographic studios Cartes de visite: Backs: Royal patronage Cabinet cards: Backs: Royal patronage
Scientists and innovatorsIntroduction Introduction to scientists Scientists of the nineteenth century Charles Darwin Louis Agassiz *** Samuel Morse *** Martin Hans Boyè Paul Nadar: Interview with Michel-Eugène Chevreul (8 September 1886)
Parts of the bodyIntroduction Portraiture of parts of the body Portraits using just a part of the body *** Bust portraits Photographers John Coplans: Self portraits *** David Goldblatt: Particulars *** Mark Cohen: The partial human *** Count Theodore Zichy: The fetishism of legs and feet
ArmsIntroduction Parts of the body: Arms ***
BackIntroduction Portrait: Parts of the body: Back: Single person Portrait: Parts of the body: Back: Groups *** Front and back views Front and back view portraits Case studies The scourged back
BreastsIntroduction Parts of the body: Breasts *** Breastfeeding Breastfeeding ***
EarsIntroduction Parts of the body: Ears
EyesIntroduction Parts of the body: Eyes Photographers William H. Bell: Unidentified man with ptosis (drooping of an eyelid) *** Karl Wessely: Eye conditions and injuries (1931) György Kepes: Photomontages of eyes *** Bill Brandt: Eyes ***
FeetIntroduction Parts of the body: Feet Footwear Footwear Photographers Count Theodore Zichy: The fetishism of legs and feet
HairIntroduction Parts of the body: Hair *** Personalities Sutherland sisters Underwood & Underwood: Faith, Hope & Charity (1903) *** Photographers Dora Maar: Mannequins *** J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere: Nigerian hairstyles
HandsHelpings hands The "helping hand", "hidden mother" and "hidden father" portraits Introduction Parts of the body: Hands X-rays X-rays of the hand Photographers Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker Imogen Cunningham: Hands *** Germaine Krull: Hands *** Rena Small: Artist's Hands ***
LegsIntroduction Parts of the body: Legs Photographers Count Theodore Zichy: The fetishism of legs and feet Lisette Model: Running legs ***
SkeletonsExamples Parts of the body: Skeletons Parts of the body: Skulls
SkullsExamples Parts of the body: Skulls
TorsosExamples Parts of the body: Torsos ***
Alternate personalities and questioning identityIntroduction Introduction to alternate personalities Early examinations of the variety of self Photographers Louis Pierson: Countess of Castiglione Helmar Lerski: Portraits Samuel Fosso: Self portraits Lucas Samaras: Unpentant Ego / Photo-transformations Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills Gillian Wearing: Album (2003) Nikki S. Lee: Projects Rafael Goldchain: Familial Ground Contemporary examinations Contemporary examinations using alternate personalities
Concealment with masks and veilsMasks Fashion: Accessories: Masks Fashion: Accessories: Gas masks Veils Fashion: Accessories: Niqabs and veils *** Photographers Minya Diez-Duhrkoop: Dance masks by Lavinia Schulz (1924) *** Inge Morath: Saul Steinberg Masks *** Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater
Identity documents and badgesPassports A daguerreotypist of Paris has proposed... (1852-1853) Passes Photographic passes for international exhibitions Identity cards Introduction to identity cards, membership cards, passes and documents Identity cards and passes during the First World War (1914-1918) Najaf Shokri: Iran Dokht Identity badges Identity badges The need for mugshots Science a Preservative from Crime (1853) Bristol City and County Gaol, Great Britain (1853) Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Prison Discipline - J.A. Gardner, Bristol Gaol (1863) Mugshots Thomas Byrnes: Professional Criminals of America (1886) Prison records and ledgers *** Prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 *** New South Wales. Police Dept. ***
Intimate relationshipsIntroduction Introduction to intimate relationships Photographers Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) Donna Ferrato: Living with the Enemy Richard Billingham: Ray and Liz Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home Sally Mann: Immediate Family
Representations of peopleIntroduction Mannequins and dress forms Photographers Hans Bellmer: La Poupée Dora Maar: Mannequins *** Louis Stettner: Human Mannequin Series ***
Self-portraitsEarly self-portraits The first photographic self portrait? Hippolyte Bayard: Self portrait as a drowned man (1840) Self-portraits of photographers Self-portraits of photographers Self portraits taken with a stick, a length of string or a rubber squeeze ball and pheumatic tube opening the shutter The photographer as a shadow participant André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Self portraits *** Hannah Maynard: Self portraits Photographers who concentrate on themselves Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills Francesca Woodman: Self Portraits *** Gillian Wearing: Album (2003) Lucas Samaras: Unpentant Ego / Photo-transformations Nikki S. Lee: Projects Samuel Fosso: Self portraits Rafael Goldchain: Familial Ground Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India John Coplans: Self portraits *** Arno Rafael Minkkinen: Self-portraits *** Clarisse d'Arcimoles: Forget Nostalgia - A Little Theatre of Self (2012) *** Tseng Kwong Chi: Self portraits *** Vernacular self-portraits Photobooth portraits Lee Godie: Photobooth self-portraits *** Shooting gallery self portraits Contemporary self-portraits Introduction to selfies
Social outsidersIntroduction Introduction to the portraiture of social outsiders Documentary studies on social outsiders Minorities Introduction to the photography of ethnic groups and minorities Native Americans Romani, Roma, Gypsies (includes a number of nomadic groups) Sideshow performers Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts Thoughts of the portraiture of ethnic groups Illness The private world of illness Mental health Insane asylum patients (1870s) Economic status Beggars Criminality Wanted criminals Photographers Hugh Welch Diamond: Patients at Surrey County Asylum (ca. 1855) James Crichton-Browne: West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Great Britain Albert Londe: Female patients with mental illness Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders (1968) Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971) Diane Arbus: Book covers Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers
TwinsIntroduction Twins and triplets *** Conjoined twins *** Photographers Albrecht Tübke: Twins ***
ScientificIntroduction Introduction to scientific photography Introduction to scientific laboratories Science and photographic processes Daguerreotypes: Scientific Salt prints: Scientific *** Albumen prints: Scientific Stereoviews: Scientific Gelatin silver prints: Science Autochromes: Scientific Contemporary examples Contemporary scientific imagery Themes Anthropology Nineteenth century botany Isabel Agnes Cowper: Mathematical models made in 1872 by Fabre de Lagrange of Paris, for the South Kensington Museum (1872) *** Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen: X-rays *** Acoustics *** Franz Max Osswald: Sound photographs in architectural models, from Franz Max Osswald's applied acoustics laboratory at ETH Zurich (1930-1933) Worlds fairs and international exhibitions The relationships between science and the World Fairs and International Exhibitions Field books Smithsonian Field Book Project Photographs that include data Photographs that include data *** Photographers Berenice Abbott: Science Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee Science and religion Evolution and the Biblical flood Questioning science Joan Fontcuberta: Fabricated sciences and alternative histories Conclusions Conclusions to scientific photography
Anthropology and ethnologyIntroduction Anthropology Measuring humanity and anthropometry Introduction to human zoos Anthropological documentation of tasks Introduction to material culture Alphonse Bertillon: Identification Anthropometrique, Instructions Signaletiques (1893) Daguerreotypes and the conception of race Daguerreotypes: Ethnic Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Chinese Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Native Americans Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Spanish Peoples of the world J.T. Zealy: African American slaves Lorenzo G. Chase: Anthropological studies Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d’Afrique (1856) Lallemand and Hart: Galerie Universelle des Peuples - Alsace (1865) Philippe Potteau: Ethnographic portraits J. Monstein: Russian types William Carrick: Russian occupationals Paul-Émile Miot: Mik'maq (Micmac) William Johnson & William Henderson: The Oriental races and tribes, residents and visitors of Bombay (published 1863-1866) John Thomson: China, cartes de visite (ca 1870) *** J. Forbes Watson & John William Kaye (eds.): The People of India (1868-1872) Willoughby Wallace Hooper: India: Portraits Albert Frisch: The Amazon (1867-1871) Lotten von Düben: Anthropological studies of Lapland (1868) Paolo Mantegazza & Stephen Sommier: Studii antropologici sui Lapponi (1880) *** Prince Roland Bonaparte's ethnographic expedition to Lapland (1884) Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884) William E. Marshall: Travels amongst the todas or the study of a primitive tribe in South India, their history, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language; with outlines of the Tuda grammar (1873) *** Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872) Gustav Fritsch: Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika's: ethnographisch und anatomisch beschrieben (1872) C. Nieuwenhuis: Sumatra and other regions of Indonesia Daniel David Veth: Midden-Sumatra Photographie-Album (1877-1879) V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society *** William Henry Jackson: Portraits of American Indians (1876) Elias A. Bonine: Native Americans Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis: Orotones William Saunders: Studio studies of the occupations of the Chinese Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China Charles Kroehle: Campa-Indians, Rio Chuchuras, East Peru (1880s) Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall: Ethnological studies Allan Hughan: Indigenous peoples of New Caledonia Maurice Vidal Portman: Andamanese Carl Lumholtz: Mexico and the measurement of man (1890s) Kröhle & Hübner: Anthropology in Peru (1891-1892) Tanner Brothers: Maori Studies Jean Demmeni: Borneo expedition to Central-Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1896-1897) Bronislaw Piotr Pilsudski: Anthropological research in Eastern Asia *** Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15) Edouard Foà: Africa Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin: The Bantu Tribes of South Africa (1928-1954) Alfred J. Tulk: Community gathering with drums and dancing, Liberia (1932) *** Studies of occupational types and "tipos" Christiano Júnior: Tipos (Brazil) James Gall: Souvenir of Jamaica Courret Hermanos: Tipos (Bolivia) *** François Aubert: Tipos (Mexico) Compilations of ethographic portraits C. & F.W. Dammann: Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men (1875) Scandal King Billy - A scandal in Tasmania Ethnographic nudity Ethnographic nudity U.S. Navy Flight School: Pilots *** Merging of populations through immigration Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits The continuation of tipos? August Sander: Portraits Irving Penn: People of the world *** William Coupon: People of the world *** Phyllis Galembo: West African Masquerade
Ethnic and traditional costumesPhotographic types Daguerreotypes: Ethnic Japanese ambrotypes Albumen prints: Ethnic and traditional costumes Cartes de visite: Ethnic and traditional costumes Cabinet cards: Ethnic and traditional costumes Postcards: Ethnic and traditional costumes Groups Icons of the South - Portraits of Ouleds-Nails (Algeria 1860-1910) Ethnic and traditional clothing from Astrakhan Photographers Elias A. Bonine: Native Americans Helen Edlund: Swedish folk costumes *** Knud Knudsen: Norwegian folk costumes *** Marcus Selmer: Norwegian costumes Solveig Lund: Norwegian folk costumes Söstrene Persen: Norwegian folk costumes *** Jager (publisher): Costumes of the Low Countries T. Richard: Swiss Costumes *** Adolphe Braun: Costumes de Suisse *** William J. Johnson: Photographs of Western India. Volume I. Costumes and Characters (ca. 1855-1862) *** Alexander Landau: Ethnic and traditional clothing from Bosnia Herzegovina Stjepan Tomlinovic: Ethnic and traditional clothing from Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia Torvald Mitreiter: Eastern European clothing (ca. 1860s-1870s) *** Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873 Félix Bonfils: Portraits V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society *** Emilio Biel & Ca.: Album de Phototypico Vistas e Costumes do Norte de Portugal (ca. 1900) *** Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Ethnic and traditional costumes Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits Rudolf Koppitz: Peasants ***
Ethnographic nudityIntroduction Ethnographic nudity
TiposIntroduction Introduction to "tipos" Studies of occupational types and "tipos" Christiano Júnior: Tipos (Brazil) Courret Hermanos: Tipos (Bolivia) *** François Aubert: Tipos (Mexico) Merille: Tipos (Mexico) Cruces & Campa: Tipos (Mexico) *** Photographers William Saunders: Studio studies of the occupations of the Chinese Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China
ArchaeologyIntroduction Introduction to archaeological photography Traveling through the Ancient and Classical World Photographers on the Grand Tour Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842) Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860) Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74) Asia Adolph Schaefer: The Buddhist monument at Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia (1844-1845) Luigi Pesce: Archaeological sites of Persia (1850s) Gabriel Tranchard: The excavations of Victor Place at Khorsabad, Iraq (1850s) Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864) *** Pierre Tremaux: Exploration archéologique en Asie Mineure (1862-ca.1868) Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor John Thomson: Cambodia: Angkor Thom / Angkor Wat (1866) John Thomson: The Antiquites of Cambodia (1867) Edmund David Lyon: Indian architecture (1860s-1860s) Alexander Svoboda: The Seven Churches of Asia (1869) *** John Henry Ravenshaw: Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions (1878) Thomas Biggs: Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat (1866) John Henry Haynes: Syria: Palmyra *** Lala Deen Dayal: Photographs for Sir Lepel Griffin "Famous Monuments of Central India" (1886) Turkestan Album: Archaeology in Central Asia (1871-1872) The Archaeological Survey of India Isidore van Kinsbergen: The archaeology of Java C.H. Graves: Boroebodor. Ruins of the world's greatest Buddhist temple, Java. (1902) *** Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s) *** Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940) Central America John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863) Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Uxmal Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Mitla Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Chichen-Itza Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s) Alfred Percival Maudslay: Guatemala: Quiriguá Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque Charles Betts Waite: Mexico: Mitla *** Teoberto Maler: Views of Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec ruins in Mexico South America Arthur Posnansky: Archaeological remains at Tihuanaco, Bolivia (1903-1904) *** North America Thomas Easterly: The Destruction of Big Mound (1853-1854) Massachusetts: Dighton Rock Chile HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868) Peru Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu Edward Ranney: Archaeological sites of Peru *** Italy - Rome Italy: Rome: The Colosseum Italy: Rome: Arch of Constantine Italy: Rome: Forum Romanum Italy: Rome: Forum Traiani Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome James Anderson: The monuments of Rome and is surroundings John Henry Parker: Recent Excavations in Rome: Made in 1868 John Henry Parker: Selections from Mr. Parker's Historical Photographs of Rome and Italy, arranged in systematic order, with prefaces to each subject (1879) Italy - Pompeii Italy: Pompeii John Shaw Smith: Pompeii Thomas H. Dyer: The Ruins of Pompeii. A Series of Eighteen Photographic Views (1867) Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii *** Michele Amodio: Pompeii *** Auguste Lesouëf: Pompeii (1880) Greece Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Parthenon Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Erechtheion Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Propylaia Greece: Athens: Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion) Dmitri Constantine: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens Alfred-Nicolas Normand: Greece *** France Mission Héliographique England Philip Henry Delamotte: Illustrations of Roman mosaics assisted by Talbotype copying and reduction (1850) England: Stonehenge Major-General Sir Henry James R.E., F.R.S.: Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland (1867) Egypt - Archaeological sites Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt Egypt: The Sphinx Egypt: Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser), Sakkarah (Saqqara) Egypt: Colossi of Memnon Egypt: Dendara Egypt: Edfou Egypt: Karnak Egypt: Kom Ombo Egypt: Luxor Egypt: Philae Egypt: Thebes Egypt: Thebes: Medinet Habu - Medinet Haboo (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III) Egypt: Valley of the Kings Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) H. Béchard: The Pyramids The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) Charles Jacquin (French): Autochromes of Egyptian archaeological sites (ca 1912) *** Egypt - Archaeological finds Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti Egypt: Cleopatra's Needle Egypt - Use of magnesium light Charles Piazzi Smyth: Use of magnesium light at the Great Pyramid (1865) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Photography, Magnesium, and the Pyramid (1865) Charles Piazzi Smyth: As soon as it was discovered that photography was possible by magnesium... (1865) Israel and Palestine / The Holy Land George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem American Palestine Exploration Society Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai Palestine Exploration Fund Archaeological excavations Archaeological excavations in progress Epigraphy Epigraphy - Squeezes of inscriptions Archaeological finds and museum displays Introduction to archaeological finds Délié & Béchard: Album du Musée Boulaq Emil Brugsch: La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari Roger Fenton: The British Museum Stephen Thompson: British Museum Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii John Edward Lee: Roman Imperial Photographs being a selection of forty enlarged Photographs of Roman Coins (1874) Underwood & Underwood: Classical and Renaissance sculptures *** Paris-Stereo: Vues d'Italie (1920) *** Conclusions Conclusions on archaeology
AstronomyIntroduction Introduction to astronomy Rapid progress during the nineteenth century in astronomical photography Telescopes and astronomical instruments Introduction to telescopes Mary Rosse: Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland (ca. 1857) Thomas Child: China: Pekin: Observatory (ca. 1875-1880) *** Early astronomical photography J.A. Whipple: Daguerreotypes of the Sun and Moon (1852) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer’s Experiment (1857) Warren De la Rue: The Moon Lewis M. Rutherfurd: Astronomy *** Charles Le Morvan: Carte photographique de la lune *** Ernest Mouchez: La Photographie astronomique a l'observatoire de Paris et la Carte du Ciel (1887) *** Tranisit of Venus Transit of Venus William de Wiveleslie Abney: Transit of Venus (1874) *** Celestial bodies The Moon The Sun Solar eclipses Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen: Studies of the Solar Surface *** Appearances of the Total Eclipse of the Sun (1842) J.B. Silvis provides the services of his photographic car to assist the photographing of a solar eclipse (1878) Home planet *** The earth from afar *** Photographers David Malin: Anglo-Australian Observatory Contemporary Contemporary astronomy iBook application: Atlas photographique de la Lune (2013) Symbolism in popular culture The moon as a symbol
Transit of VenusIntroduction Transit of Venus Expeditions German Transit of Venus Expedition, Terror Cove, Auckland Islands (1874-1875) *** German Transit of Venus expedition, Kerguelen Islands (1874) *** William de Wiveleslie Abney: Transit of Venus (1874) *** Brazilian Astronomical Commission: Transit of Venus album (6 December 1882) ***
Botany19th century botany Nineteenth century botany Botanical Gardens London: Kew Gardens *** Photomicrographs of botany Leaves Introduction to leaves Flowers Introduction to flowers Ferns Ferns Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Botany Henry Fox Talbot: The Bertoloni Album Golding Bird:Observations on the application of Heliographic or Photogenic Drawing to Botanical Purposes (April 1839) Anna Atkins: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions (1843-1854) Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (ca. 1854) Constantin v. Ettingshausen and A. Pokorny: Physiotypia plantarum austriacarum (1855-1856) Cecilia Louisa Glaisher: Ferns (ca. 1850-1858) Louis Godefroy Lucy-Fossarieu: Jardin Zoologique & Botanique D'Acclimtatation du Bois de Boulogne (ca. 1860) R.B. Bontecou: Botantical specimens Eugène Charles de Gayffier: Herbier Forestier de la France (1867) Charles Hippolyte Aubry: Botanical and flower studies Adolphe Braun: Flower studies Charles Scowen: Plants of Sri Lanka *** Herbert Boucher Dobbie: New Zealand Ferns. 148 Varieties (1880) Bertha Jaques: Cyanotypes of plants *** Unidentified artist "TS" or "ST" (French, 19th century): Botanical studies (1890-1920) *** Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1952) Karl Blossfeldt: Books *** Karl Blossfeldt‘s Original "Urformen der Kunst" / "Art Forms in Nature" X-rays Dain L. Tasker: X-rays of flowers *** Professor Albert Richards: X-rays of Flowers
Expeditions and explorationIntroduction Introduction to nineteenth century scientific expeditions Expeditionary Art: An Appraisal Surveying Canada Humphrey Lloyd Hime: Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition (1857-1858) Charles Horetzky: Surveyor and photographer of British Columbia *** Joseph Burr Tyrrell: Expedition to the barren lands (1893) Canada / USA Northwest Boundary Survey (1857-1862) / British North American Boundary Commission USA Landscape surveys of the American West William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869) Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869) Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866) *** U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869) Survey west of the 100th Parallel - George Montague Wheeler (1869-1879) William Henry Jackson: The Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871 [Series] *** Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874) River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872) Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) Mexico John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863) Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s) Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque Panama John Moran: Darien Expedition (1871) South America HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868) Albert Frisch: The Amazon (1867-1871) Jean Chaffanjon: The Venezuelan Amazon George Miller Dyott: Expeditions in Amazonia Asia Eliphant Brown: Daguerreotypist on Commodore Perry's voyage to the China Seas and Japan (1850s) Luigi Montabone: Ricordi del viaggio in Persia della missione italiana (1862) Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864) *** Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski: Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China (1874-1875) Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor Captain Edward Francis Chapman: Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-1874) Daniel David Veth: Midden-Sumatra Photographie-Album (1877-1879) Jean Demmeni: Borneo expedition to Central-Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1896-1897) John William Lindt: British New Guinea Expedition led by led by Sir Peter Scratchley (1885) *** Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea (1903-1904) V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society *** Yvette Borup Andrews: Across Mongolian plains (1921) *** Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little Known China (1918) Oceania Bruno L. Hamel: An Album of Photographic Views (1859) German Transit of Venus Expedition, Terror Cove, Auckland Islands (1874-1875) *** John William Lindt: Picturesque New Guinea (1887) Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition (1891-1892) Middle East Palestine Exploration Fund Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai American Palestine Exploration Society Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860) Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862) Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74) Nubia (South Egypt / Northern Sudan) The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) Africa Expeditions within Africa Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d’Afrique (1856) John Kirk: David Livingstone - The Zambezi Expedition (1858-1864) James Chapman: Chapman Expedition in South Africa (1862-1864) Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869) Royal Geographical Society Expedition: Nyassa Edouard Foà: Africa László Almásy: Expeditions in the Sahara (1930s) Europe Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s) The Fox Surveying Expedition (1860-1861) Josef Székely: Austro-Hungarian expedition to northern Albania, Kosova and Macedonia (1863) Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland (1909) *** Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15) Arctic Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848) Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield: Inglefield Expedition (1850s) Dr. Isaac I. Hayes: [Greenland Expedition] (ca 1859) William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873) Thomas Mitchell: The British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876) Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883) *** The Greely Arctic Exploring Expedition (1881-1884) The schooner FYLLA's Greenland voyage (1884) *** Prince Roland Bonaparte's ethnographic expedition to Lapland (1884) Fridtjof Nansen: First crossing of Greenland (1888) Robert E. Peary: Greenland Expedition (1893-1895) *** Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897) Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928) Antarctica Letter from John Herschel to Daguerre (1 August 1939) Roald Amundsen: Amundsen's South Pole expedition (1910-1912) Herbert Ponting: British Antarctic Expedition - Scott - Terra Nova (1910-1913) Frank Hurley: Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1913) Frank Hurley: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) Pack animals Pack animals - mules, donkeys, burros and horses L.A. Huffman: The Rage of Huffman and the Calmness of Nig (1883) Dark tents and dark boxes Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents Dark tents and dark boxes *** Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places John Burke: Fixing the Negative National Geographic National Geographic photographers on assignment Field note books Smithsonian Field Book Project Around the world The travels of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1872) Fiction and the reality of travel Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872? Expeditions and exploration in the twentieth century Introduction to twentieth century scientific expeditions Space exploration Space exploration
GeologyIntroduction Introduction to geology and mineralogy Photography and geological change Charles Lyell on Niagara Falls (1845) Volcanic eruptions Volcanoes and volcanic eruptions Alphonse Bernoud & Claude Grillet: Italy: Earthquake damage (1857-1858) Giorgio Sommer: Eruption of Vesuvius (1872) Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii Geological features Geysers Glaciers Fjords *** Rock formations Locations Utah: Devil's Slide California: Yosemite Valley Photographers Exhibitions: 1855 Crystal Palace - Models of Extinct Animals William England: Views of Switzerland [Series] *** Richebourg: Carte geologique detaillee de la France, Feuille 48.- Paris (1879) Joshua Crissman: Yellowstone National Park, illustrated by 122 views. (ca 1876) *** Charles Waldack, Proctor & O'Shaughnessy: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (1866) Mandeville Thum: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (ca 1876-1877) *** William Bell: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. / Geological Series [Stereoviews] *** Ben Hains: Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity (1889) Martin Kriz: Moravian Karst region - subterranean photography Unidentified photographer: Postojna Cave [present-day Slovenia] (1890) *** Joseph Burr Tyrrell: Expedition to the barren lands (1893) Charles Spencer: New Zealand: Volcanic landscapes (1886) George Dobson Valentine: New Zealand *** Brett Weston: Lava abstractions *** Palaeontology and evolution Evolution and the Biblical flood
MedicalIntroduction Introduction to medical photography Photographers John Kirk: Turkey: B.H. Renkioi Charles Nègre: Vincennes Imperial Asylum (1859) Nadar: Hermaphrodite Dr Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions (1876) Dr. A. de Montmeja: Revue Photographique des Hopitaux de Paris (1869-?) A. Hardy and A. de Montméja: Clinique Photographique de l'hopital Saint-Louis *** A. Hardy and A. de Montméja: Clinique Photographique des Maladies de la Peau (1882) Balmanno Squire: A Manual of the Diseases of the Skin (1862) *** Edward Bierstadt: Photographic Illustrations Of Skin Diseases (1864) George A. Otis: Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens (1867 or later) R.B. Bontecou: Surgical injuries and their treatment during the American Civil War William H. Bell: Medical injuries during the American Civil War Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery (1870-?) Christiano Júnior: Elephantiasis (ca 1866) Oscar Gustave Rejlander: The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (London, 1872). Jules Bernard Luys: Les Emotions chez les sujets en état d'hypnotisme (1887) Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases (1881) *** Professor A. Neisser (author): Stereoscopischer Medicinischer Atlas (1895) *** George Henry Fox: Photographic Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin in Four Volumes (1905) Edinburgh University Stereoscopic Anatomy Series: The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy by Waterston and Burnet, a set of stereoscopic slides mounted on explanatory cards (1905 or later) *** Dr. Max Cohn (author): Atlas der Röntgenstereoskopie (ca 1920) *** Friedrich Heiderich: Stereoskopische Bilder zur Gehirn-Schädel-Topographie (1920) *** Lejaren à Hiller: Surgery through the Ages Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: Psychiatric hospitals (1954) W. Eugene Smith: Minamata Pino Musi: _ 08 : 08 Operating Theatre *** Hospitals Introduction to hospitals Surgery Early medical operations and surgery Dentistry Dentistry and dentists Spas France: Aix-les-Bains: Thermal spa *** Medical conditions Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts Conjoined twins *** Ranger & Austen: Clairvoyant Medical Examinations - Buffum & Cleveland Karl Wessely: Eye conditions and injuries (1931) Nurses Florence Nightingale *** Mary Seacole *** Patients Major General Henry Barnum Private George Lemon Picturing disability X-rays Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen: X-rays *** X-rays of the hand Medical imaging Contemporary medical imaging National Library of Medicine: Visible human project Alexander Tsiaras: Books
HypnotismIntroduction Introduction to hypnotism *** Photographers Jules Bernard Luys: Les Emotions chez les sujets en état d'hypnotisme (1887) J. Luys: Leçons Cliniques sur les Principaux Phenomènes de l'Hypnotisme (1890)
Mental health and psychiatryIntroduction Introduction to mental health and psychiatry Photographers Hugh Welch Diamond: Patients at Surrey County Asylum (ca. 1855) The Physiognomy of Insanity, by Dr. Conolly. Photographs taken from Life. By Dr. Diamond (1858) James Crichton-Browne: West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Great Britain Insane asylum patients (1870s) Albert Londe: Female patients with mental illness Désiré-Magloire Bourneville & Paul Régnard: Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-1880) *** W. Eugene Smith: Man of Mercy (1954) Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: Psychiatric hospitals (1954) Diane Arbus: Book covers Joy Christiansen: Family Gathering
Movement and motionIntroduction to the study of movement and motion Introduction to the study of movement and motion Introduction Introduction to instantaneous photography Henry Fox Talbot: Rendering moving objects motionless with an electrical spark (14 June 1851) Furne fils & Tournier: Épreuve a Mouvement (Metamorphic stereoviews) Etienne Jules Marey Etienne Jules Marey: Capturing static shots of movement Etienne Jules Marey: Physiological Station at Paris Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge: Capturing static shots of movement Eadweard Muybridge: Cyanotypes Eadweard Muybridge: Experimental establishments Eadweard Muybridge: Animals in motion Advert for J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Book review of J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Eadweard Muybridge: The Human Figure in Motion Significant people in the study of movement and motion Thomas Eakins: Using motion studies for artistic accuracy Georges Demeny: Motion studies *** Albert Londe: Cavalier au Galop (1887) *** Ottomar Anschütz: The study of animal motion Arthur Clive Banfield: Animal motion and the study of drops A.M. Worthington: The study of drops Francis Blake: "Cow Pony" at sharp canter (ca 1886) *** Francis Blake: Pigeons in Flight (ca 1889) *** Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890-1960) and Arturo Bragaglia (1893-1962) Frank B. Gilbreth (1868-1924) and Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972): Work study Gjon Mili: Descending a staircase Harold E. Edgerton: The use of microsecond flash and strobes Photo finish Photo finish Movement, motion and fine art Introduction to movement, motion and fine art Clare Strand: Betterment Room - Devices For measuring Achievement (2005) ***
NuclearIntroduction The Nuclear Age: Introduction Nuclear weapons War: Atomic explosions: New Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range, first ever nuclear explosion *** War: Atomic explosions: Destruction of test house *** War: Atomic explosions: Hiroshima War: Atomic explosions: Nagasaki War: Atomic explosions: Examples Nuclear power John Darwell: Legacy - Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Oceanography and underwater photographyIntroduction Introduction to underwater photography Oceanography Introduction to oceanography U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Woods Hole, Mass. - 1871 *** Divers Divers *** Photographers Louis Boutan: Underwater photography Bruce Mozert (Mozert Studio): Underwater scenes at Silver Springs, Florida (1940s) *** Donald Lawrence: Underwater pinhole cameras James Fee: The Peleliu Project
PalaeontologyIntroduction Palaeontology Expeditions Bone Field on Talbot Hill, 10 miles from Canon City, Colo. Photographers Exhibitions: 1855 Crystal Palace - Models of Extinct Animals James Deane: Ichnographs from the sandstone of Connecticut River (1861) ***
PhotogrammetryIntroduction Description of the Bridges-Lee New Patent Photo-Theodolite (1897 ca.) Camera transit made by Fairchild (ca. 1946) *** Photographers Albrecht Meydenbauer: Photogrammetry
PhotomicroscopyIntroduction to photomicroscopy Introduction to photomicroscopy Photomicroscopists Henry Fox Talbot: Photomicrographs *** John William Draper: Photomicrographs *** Donné & Foucault: Cours de Microscope (1845) *** Adolphe Bertsch: Photomicrographs Arthur E. Durham: Photomicrographs *** Adolphe Neyt: Photomicrographs *** W.H. Olley: The wonders of the microscope photographically revealed, by means of Olley's patent micro-photographic reflecting process. (1857-1861) Joseph Janvier Woodward: Photomicrographs Albert Moitessier: La Photographie Appliquee aux Recherches Micrographiques (1866) *** Julius Stinde (1841–1905): Photomicroscopy (1868-1870) *** Otto Müller: Photomicrographs of plants *** Arthur Wells Bawtree: Stereo photomicrographs (ca. 1870s-1880s) René Patrice Proudhon Dagron: Photomicrographs, carrier-pigeons and the beseiged city of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) Dr. Charles Forbes (1844-1917): Photomicrographs (ca. 1879) *** Frederick H. Evans: Photomicrographs Arthur E. Smith: Photomicrographs for Richard Kerr, "Nature Through Microscope and Camera" (1909) *** Wilson A. Bentley: Photomicrographs of snowflakes Richard Neuhauss: Photomicrographs of snowflakes *** Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962): Micrographie Décorative Robert W. Dunham: The structure of wheat shown in a series of photo-micrographs, with explanatory remarks (1892) *** Alfred Ehrhardt: Photomicroscopy Carl Strüwe: Photomicrographs Subjects for photomicroscopy Photomicrographs of insects Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee Photomicrographs of botany Copying paintings and documents Henry Hering - Alfred Reeves: Photograph. The Kings and Queens of England W. & F. Langenheim: The Lord's Prayer *** Conclusions Photomicroscopy and the quest for the ever smaller image
Scientific experimentsIntroduction Introduction to scientific experiments Automatic registration of instruments Photographs that capture data *** Photographers Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer’s Experiment (1857) Dr Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions (1876) Jules Bernard Luys: Les Emotions chez les sujets en état d'hypnotisme (1887) Etienne Jules Marey: Physiological Station at Paris Eadweard Muybridge: Experimental establishments Berenice Abbott: Science Harold E. Edgerton: Night experiments at Stonehenge Experiments Instantaneous photography - The exploding mule (6 June 1881) War: Atomic explosions: Destruction of test house *** Test strips Photographic test strips
Stroboscopes and stroboscopyIntroduction Stroboscopes and stroboscopy Henry Fox Talbot Henry Fox Talbot: Rendering moving objects motionless with an electrical spark (14 June 1851) Harold E. Edgerton Harold E. Edgerton: The use of microsecond flash and strobes Harold E. Edgerton: Baton *** Harold E. Edgerton: Bullets *** Harold E. Edgerton: Milk drop Harold E. Edgerton: Night experiments at Stonehenge
X-raysIntroduction Introduction to X-rays Early users of x-rays Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen: X-rays *** Eder & Valenta: Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen'schen Strahlen (1896) James Green and James H. Gardiner: British Batrachians and Reptiles (ca 1896) Sir Arthur Schuster: X-rays *** Dr. Max Cohn (author): Atlas der Röntgenstereoskopie (ca 1920) *** X-rays and art photography Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Lucrecia - Classic Theme Dain L. Tasker: X-rays of flowers *** Professor Albert Richards: X-rays of Flowers Sandra J. Raredon (NMNH): X-Rays of fish ***
Spirit photography and paranormal manifestationsIntroduction Spirit photography Sensitivity to photographs Dreams and visions Notorious examples William H. Mumler: Spirit photography P.T. Barnum: Spiritual Photography (1866) Abraham Lincoln as a returning spirit William Hope: Spirit photography and séances *** Richard Boursnell & J. Evans Sterling (London Spiritualists): Spirit photographs *** Miss Houghton: Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye (1882) *** Cottingley Fairies Dr. Enrico Imoda: Fotografie di Fantasmi (1912) *** Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism Thomas Glendenning Hamilton's Psychic Room in Winnipeg, Canada (1920-1922) Scientific experiments Ranger & Austen: Clairvoyant Medical Examinations - Buffum & Cleveland
Sports and pastimesIntroduction Introduction to sports and pastimes *** Examples Fishing in the nineteenth century *** Naturism and the sacred purity of the body *** Coventry-rotary, Photo-tricycle, M.D. Rudge and Co. (Great Britain) *** Sports cards Sports cards and cigarette cards Leisure Leisure Leisure: Costume balls Leisure: Cycling - Penny farthings, boneshakers and bicycles Leisure: Fishing *** Leisure: Golf Leisure: Needle crafts, sewing, knitting and crochet Leisure: Playing cards Leisure: Playing chess Leisure: Playing games *** Leisure: Reading Tennis Photographers William James Topley: Hunting and fishing in Canada Carl Jacob Malmberg: Gymnastics *** Atelier J. Hamann - Heinrich Hamann (1883–1975, probably): Gymnastics *** Kurt Reichert: Naturism *** Leni Riefenstahl: Athletes ***
SportsIntroduction Introduction to sports photography Examples Boxing Cricket Diving *** Rowing Fencing *** Soccer *** Baseball *** Swimming Skiing Photographers Leni Riefenstahl: Athletes *** Harold E. Edgerton: Sports
Still lifeIntroduction Still life: Introduction Still life: Understanding the term Early still life photographs Techniques and processes Daguerreotypes: Still life Salt prints: Still life Albumen prints: Still life Stereoviews: Still life Cartes de visite: Objects Cabinet cards: Objects Gelatin silver prints: Still life *** Pictorialism and the still life Pictorialism: Still lifes *** Food Martin Parr: Real Food *** Fruit and vegetables Apples Pears Objects Still life: Chairs Still life: Kitchen Still life: Eggs Still life: Glassware and cut crystal Still life: Pottery, china, porcelain and ceramics Still life: Books *** Still life: Hung game *** Still life: Fabric, textiles, lace and embroidery Still life: Arms and armour Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Bust of Patroclus Ludwig Belitski: Collection Minutoli (ca. 1854) Andreas Groll: Die Vorzüglichsten Rüstungen und Waffen der K. K. Ambraser-Sammlung (1862) *** Juan Laurent: Arms and armour *** Charles and Jane Clifford: Armour *** Adolphe Braun: Flower studies Roger Fenton: Still lifes Ferdinand Küss: Still lives *** Emmanuel Sougez: Still lifes Edward Weston: Shells Edward Weston: Vegetables Josef Sudek: Glasses and bread *** Jan Groover: Still lifes *** Olivia Parker: Still lifes Marian Drew: Still Life - Australiana
Bizarre still lifesIntroduction Bizarre still lifes: Introduction Bizarre still lifes Photographers Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii Hans Bellmer: La Poupée
Commercial still lifesIntroduction Early product photography *** Commercial still life
Fine art still lifesIntroduction Fine art still lifes Fine art still life examples *** Photographers Abelardo Morell: Books *** Arthur Tress: The Teapot Opera ***
Subject selection for still lifesIntroduction Subject selection for still lifes
StreetIntroduction Introduction to street photography Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844) Early street photography Strolling the city streets *** Different perspectives on nineteenth century street photography Changes in cameras Camera developments and street photography European Street photography of the 1920‘s and 1930‘s Photographers Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Silas A. Holmes (attributed): New York (ca. 1855) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Early street photography in Russia (1859) John Thomson: Physic Street, Canton, China John Thomson: China, a travelling chiropodist John Thomson: Street Life in London John Thomson: The Crawlers Eugène Atget: Street photography T.H. McAllister (American): Street life of New York (1898) *** Paul Martin: Street photography Victor Angerer: Instantaneous photography on the street (1888) J.J. Clarke: The streets of Dublin Edward Linley Sambourne: London streets (1900-1910) Emil Mayer: Street photography Roman Vishniac: Street photography Wolfgang Suschitzky: London: Charing Cross Road (ca 1936) *** Arnold Genthe: Chinatown Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco *** Walker Evans: Street photography Walker Evans: The subway portraits Louis Faurer: Street photography *** Helen Levitt: Children of New York Weegee: Street photography Vivian Maier: Street photography Saul Leiter: New York in colour Robert Frank: The Americans Robert Frank, 1958, "A Statement", U. S. Camera Annual, p. 115 Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful (1975) Joel Meyerowitz: Street photography Ed Van der Elsken: Sweet Life (1966) Frederick Wilfred: London (ca. 1960s) *** William Klein: Books Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: The first exhibition "Bali-Kino" Berlin (October 1974) Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: What‘s our Concern with Strangers? Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers Voyeurism Voyeurism Working on the street Walking portraits, or walkies, taken by opportunitistic commercial street photographers Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography Backgrounds: Street photographers Afghan Box Camera Project *** Everybody Street (director: Cheryl Dunn, 2013)
Characters and occupational typesOccupations Street characters and occupational types *** Porters *** Street vendors Bootblacks and shoeshines Water carriers and water vendors Photographers William Carrick: Russian occupationals J. Monstein: Russian types John Thomson: Street Life in London Irving Penn: Small Trades
Hidden camerasIntroduction Voyeurism Photographers Paul Martin: Street photography Walker Evans: The subway portraits Events The execution of Ruth Synder (1929)
Street photographersIntroduction Street photographers Backgrounds: Street photographers Walking portraits, or walkies, taken by opportunitistic commercial street photographers Photographers Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: The Biter Bit Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography Afghan box cameras Afghan Box Camera Project ***
Street: Classic French examplesIntroduction The humanism of street photography in France Classic French street photography Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment André Kertész: Street photography in Paris Robert Doisneau: Humanistic photography
Street: Current trendsIntroduction Introduction to contemporary street photography Contemporary street photography Travels and contemporary street photography Contemporary street photography and the art of separation Questioning the genre of contemporary street photography
Street: Garry WinograndGarry Winogrand Garry Winogrand Gary Winogrand: Street photography Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful (1975) The snapshot aesthetic Snapshot aesthetic
TransportationIntroduction Introduction to transportation Transportation infrastructure Les Travaux Publics de la France (1878-1882) Ports, harbours and docks Transportation and photograph types Albumen prints: Transportation Cartes de visite: Backs: Transportation *** Stereoviews: Transportation *** Vernacular: Transportation *** Transportation backgrounds Backgrounds: Transportation *** Transportation and fashion Transportation and fashion examples ***
Air transportationBalloon flights Balloon flights Nadar: Balloon flights Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897) Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928) Airships Airships Airplanes Airplanes Russian airplace *** Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Balloons Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Aircraft
AirplanesExamples Airplanes Russian airplace *** Photographers Manfred Curry: A travers les nuages (ca. 1932) *** Aircraft recognition Aircraft recognition training - U.S. Navy (ca. 1947-1951) Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Aircraft
Land transportationHuman labor Rickshaws *** Horse and ox-drawn Chariots *** Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies Wagon trains Sleighs, sleds and Toboggans Powered Cars Trucks Peter Keetman: Volkswagen Factory, Wolfsburg (1953) Buses Motorcycles and scooters Trains and railroads Trains, railroads and railways Trains: Central Pacific Railroad *** Alexander Gardner and others: Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad A.J. Russell: Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah (10 May 1869) Documenting road quality Documenting the quality of roads in the USA (1891) *** Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Carts Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Cars Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Railways
BusesExamples Buses Photographers Alfons Himmelreich: School bus Tu've beShvat ***
CarsExamples Cars Photographers Peter Keetman: Volkswagen Factory, Wolfsburg (1953) Robert Frank: The Americans - Car culture *** Arnold Odermatt: Road accidents Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Cars
Cycling - Penny farthings, high wheelers, boneshakers and bicyclesCycling Cycling - Penny farthings, bone shakers and bicycles Documenting the quality of roads in the USA (1891) *** Coventry-rotary, Photo-tricycle, M.D. Rudge and Co. (Great Britain) ***
Motorcycles and scootersExamples Motorcycles and scooters Photographers Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders (1968)
Pack animals - mules, donkeys, burros and horsesPhotographers using pack animals Pack animals - mules, donkeys, burros and horses The difficulties of pack animals Mark Twain attempting to photograph the Matterhorn (1880) L.A. Huffman: The Rage of Huffman and the Calmness of Nig (1883)
RailwaysIntroduction Introduction to the photography of railways The expansion and significance of railways in the nineteenth century Railways and urban expansion *** Train wrecks France Édouard Baldus: Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (1860s) Édouard Baldus: Les chemins de fer du Nord. Ligne de Paris à Boulogne. Vues photographiques Édouard Baldus: Chemin de fer du Nord. Ligne de Paris à Compiègne par Chantilly. Petites vues (1866) *** Hippolyte-Auguste Collard: Chemin de fer du Bourbonnais *** Construction du Chemin de Fer Metropolitan Municipal de Paris (1905-1910) Portugal Emilio Biel: Caminho de Ferro do Douro (ca. 1890) USA The importance of railroads in the development of the American West James Fitzallen Ryder: Photographic Views on the Atlantic & Great Western Railway (1862) *** Railways and the American Civil War (1861-1865) *** Alexander Gardner and others: Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad Trains: Central Pacific Railroad *** William Henry Jackson: Railways John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866) *** Andrew J. Russell: The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent, Taken Along the Line of the Union Pacific Railroad, West from Omaha, Nebraska A.J. Russell: Union Pacific R.R. views, across the continent, west from Omaha.[Series] (1868-1870) A.J. Russell: Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah (10 May 1869) Elmer & Tenney (Winona, Minn.): E. & T. Minnesota Snow - View Series of 1881 - Snow Blockade Views *** Wyoming: Dale Creek Crossing (1868-1901) Alfred Hart: First Construction Train passing the Palisades, Ten Mile Cañon *** Alfred Hart: Central Pacific Railroad Purviance: Purviance's Views, Penn'a Central Rail Road *** George R. Lawrence: The Largest Photograph in the World of the Handsomest Train in the World (ca 1900) *** Esther Bubley and Russell Lee: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1948) O. Winston Link: Trains Canada The Canadian Pacific Railway South America Georges Poulet: Aurora Argentina (1890s) Asia Railways of India Trains Trains, railroads and railways Railway hotels Louis-Émile Durandelle and Albert Chevojon: Grand Hotel Terminus-Saint Lazare, Paris (1889 or later) *** Photochroms Photochroms: Railways *** Railroad studios Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains J.B. Silvis: Photograph car Backmarks for railroad photograph cars Backmarks Cartes de visite: Backs: Transportation *** Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Railways
Sedan chairs - KagoExamples Sedan chairs (kago) in Japan
Wagon trainsIntroduction Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies Wagon trains
Wagons, carts, carriages and buggiesExamples Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies Photographers John Thomson: Carts and wagons included in Street Life in London (1877) *** Eugène Atget: Voitures - wagons, carts, carriages *** Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Carts
Water transportationWatercraft types Boats, canoes and kayaks Sailing ships Steamboats and paddle steamers Shipping *** Submarines Ports, harbours and docks Ports, harbours and docks Eadweard Muybridge: California Dry Dock, at Hunters Point, San Francisco, California *** Canals Daguerreotypes of canal construction (ca. 1850) *** Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Boats
Boats, canoes and kayaksExamples Boats, canoes and kayaks Messing about on boats *** Photographers Eugène Atget: Boats *** Studio foregrounds and backgrounds Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Boats
Sailing shipsExamples Ports, harbours and docks Sailing ships Photographers Gustave Le Gray: Seascapes Paul-Émile Miot: Shipping *** Calvert Richard Jones: Ships and harbours *** Charles H. Shute & Son (Edgartown, Mass.): Stereoscopic Views of a Whaling Voyage
ShippingIntroduction Introduction to shipping *** Ports, Harbours and docks Ports, harbours and docks Photographers Robert Howlett: The Great Eastern Joseph Cundall: Construction of the Great Eastern at John Scott Russell's Yard, Milwall (1855-1856) *** Gustave Le Gray: Cherbourg (4-6 August 1858) Dalmouth: Vues du paquebot "Cordillère" des Messageries maritimes (1895-1900) ***
Steamboats and paddle steamersIntroduction Steamboats and paddle steamers
TravelIntroduction Introduction to travel photography The growing popularity of travel Photographers on the Grand Tour Thomas Cook Travel in popular culture Gabriel de Rumine: Travels (1858-1859) John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866) *** Travellers Edward Backhouse Mounsey: Cruise of the "Nereid" (1869) *** The travels of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1872) Emile Ninaud: Amur River region between Russia and China (1870s) Charles Jacquin (French): Autochromes of Egyptian archaeological sites (ca 1912) *** Photographers as a distraction A photographer disturbs the tranquility of Mount Vernon (March 1859) Hotels Egypt: Shepheard's Hotel / Hotel Shepherd Travel photographers at work Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works Documenting the world Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet (1909-1931) Photographic souvenirs Photographs for the growing number of travelers Gates Brothers: Watkins Glen, N.Y. (1865) *** Auguste Lesouëf: Pompeii (1880) Marketing: Commercial catalogues Nineteenth century book and print sellers Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers Souvenir photograph albums Souvenir sets of travel photographs Paperweight travel souvenirs *** Reminiscences and the armchair traveler Théophile Gautier: Wanderings in Spain (1853) Mr. E. K. Tenison, of Kilbonan Castle, exhibited a number of photographs of very large size, representing views in Spain (1853) Books and portfolios of prints based on, or purportedly based on, photographs Paris et ses Environs Reproduits par le Daguerrotype, Sous la Direction de M. Ch. Philipon (Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, 1840) Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842) Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844) Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin: Vues de Paris (1845) *** Bruges, ses Monuments et ses Tableaux, edited by Daveluy (Bruges, Daveluy, 1855) Travel books John Mounteney Jephson: Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany (1859) *** Roger Fenton: The Conway in the Stereoscope (1860) William Despard Hemphill: The Abbeys, Castles, and Scenery of Clonmel and the Surrounding Countryside (1860) Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860) Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862) Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Covers (1863) Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864) *** John Thomson: Views on the North River (1870) John Thomson: Foochow and the River Min (1870-1871) *** Edward Bierstadt: Gems of American Scenery, consisting of Stereoscopic Views among the White Mountains (1878) Colonel Stuart Wortley & Lady Brassey: Tahiti, a series of photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley; with letterpress by Lady Brassey (1882) *** Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: Bilder aus Mekka (1889) Victor Bizot, Six months around the world, 1886-1887 (1891) *** J. Payne Jennings: Book covers Photographically illustrated books for the armchair traveler Stereo sets Stereoview libraries for the armchair traveler SIP: Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours [Series] *** Stephen J Sedgwick: Announcement of Prof. S. J. Sedgwick's illustrated course of lectures and catalogue of stereoscopic views of scenery in all parts of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains (1879-1880) *** Travel clichés of the nineteenth century Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids Travel literature Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872? Francis Frith: Illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hyperion (1865) Mark Twain attempting to photograph the Matterhorn (1880) Albums and diaries Albums and travel diaries created by travelers Luis Pastorino: Fotografias de Montevideo (1880) Eadweard Muybridge: The Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the cultivation and shipment of coffee Enrico Van Lint: Ricordo di Pisa (ca 1875-1880) Frank Jay Haynes: Alaska Views (ca. 1891) Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later) Clara Whitcomb`s diary: Egypt and the Levant (1898-1899) Photograph album - An Unknown Street Photographer in Paris (1896) Dalmouth: Vues du paquebot "Cordillère" des Messageries maritimes (1895-1900) *** G.K. Ballance: Travel in Switzerland and Italy (1900-1910) Charles Breed: The Wellcome Photographic Exposure Record and Diary - 1910 - French trip Autochromes and early colour travel photography Autochromes: From around the world Fernand Cuville: Greece: Mount Athos The continuing drama of travel Road trips Robert Frank: The Americans Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places Tseng Kwong Chi: Self portraits *** The rise of air travel
TypologiesIntroduction Typology Examples of typologies Photographers Juan Laurent: Arms and armour *** Charles and Jane Clifford: Armour *** Alphonse Bertillon: Identification Anthropometrique, Instructions Signaletiques (1893) Bedford Lemere & Co.: Album No. 1, Photographs taken from Specimens in Royal Architectural Museum (ca 1872) *** Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein: Die gestielten crinoiden der Siboga-expedition (1907) [Sea stars - Crinoids] *** Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1952) Karl Blossfeldt: Books *** August Sander: Portraits Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies William Laven: War Models Mandy Barker: Environmental damage through plastic waste of the seas Vernacular examples of typologies Aircraft recognition training - U.S. Navy (ca. 1947-1951)
VernacularVernacular photography Introduction to vernacular photography Themes Vernacular: Transportation *** Kodak Early Kodak camera formats Real photo postcards Real photo postcards: Animals *** Real photo postcards: African Americans *** Photobooths Photobooth designs Photobooth plates *** Photobooth strips *** Photobooth portraits Snapshots The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters Mugshots American mugshots Description of Prisoners Received at the California State Prison, May 1909-December 1914 *** The Holocaust: Women concentration camp guards *** Amateurs Lady Ottoline Morrell: Children cavorting at Garsington Preserving discarded memories Najaf Shokri: Iran Dokht Thomas Sauvin and photographic waste in China - The Beijing Silvermine project
Instantaneous photographyIntroduction Introduction to instantaneous photography Daguerreotype exposure times Daguerreotype exposure times Dry plates Packaging for dry plates Medals Medals for instantaneous photography *** Examples Instantaneous photography: Examples Photographers Paul Martin: Street photography Victor Angerer: Instantaneous photography on the street (1888) Emil Mayer: Street photography Francis Blake: "Cow Pony" at sharp canter (ca 1886) *** Francis Blake: Pigeons in Flight (ca 1889) *** The Horse on Motion - Eadweard Muybridge Advert for J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Book review of J.D.B. Stillman "The Horse In Motion, As Shown By Instantaneous Photography," (London: Trubner and Co., 1882) Case studies Instantaneous photography - The exploding mule (6 June 1881)
PhotoboothsBackground to photobooths Photobooth designs Photobooth plates *** Photobooth strips *** Photobooth portraits Photographers Lee Godie: Photobooth self-portraits ***
Real photo postcardsIntroduction Real photo postcards Real photo postcards Real Photo Postcards: Backgrounds and foregrounds Themes Real photo postcards: African Americans *** Real photo postcards: Animals *** Real photo postcards: Landscapes *** Exaggeration postcards Exaggeration postcards Henry M. Beach: Exaggeration photo postcards
SnapshotsUnderstanding the snapshot Introduction to snapshots Photograph album - An Unknown Street Photographer in Paris (1896) Snapshot disasters The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters Kodak Early Kodak camera formats Snapshot cameras Photographic Simplicity - Bulls-Eye Kodak *** The Kodak Camera *** Kodak advertising New Kodak Cameras. You press the button, we do the rest. (1890) The Kodak Themes Snapshots: Landscapes Snapshots: Mountains *** Snapshots: Trees Photographers Kenneth Forbes: Snapshots taken in Mexico (1936) *** Desire to be paid Edward P. Tobie: Photographing Indians Septima M. Collis: Kodak'd by Miss M.D. Beach Poetry To My Sweetheart's Kodak (1890) Songs My Little Snapshot Album (ca 1938) Humour The Young Kodak Fiend The snapshot aesthetic Snapshot aesthetic Diaristic photography
WarIntroduction Introduction to war photography Military acceptance of photography Ordnance Survey Building, Southampton Photography and the British Army Journalists at war Journalists at war Problematic issues Photographs of war dead American Civil War (1861-1865): The dead John Reekie: Collecting Remains of the Dead Willoughby Wallace Hooper: The scandal of delaying a firing squad Prisoners of war Censorship of war photography Faking war photographs Reuse of miltary stereoviews Humanity in terrible times The landscapes of war The civilian impact of War Issues of interpretation of building structures Wars and the lack of photographic evidence Amateur photography and war Boer War (1899-1902): Fabrications British Munitions Company Limited - Verdun (1916-1918) *** National and ethnic perspectives of war Veterans Fractured history War and the destruction of photohistory Rephotographic studies Rephotographic studies of conflicts and wars The impact of changing technologies The changing technologies of war photography Fashion: Accessories: Gas masks Night vision imagery Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib William Laven: War Models Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier) Balazs Gardi: Basetrack One-Eight, Afghanistan (2010-2011) Aftermath David Dare Parker: Agent Orange, Vietnam *** Thoughts The aesthetics of conflict War conclusions Postscript A postscript to war - Don McCullin
Afghanistan Wars (1979-?)Introduction Afghanistan Wars (1979-?) Photographers Steve McCurry - The Power of a Single Image Balazs Gardi: Basetrack One-Eight, Afghanistan (2010-2011)
Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)Introduction Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
Algerian War of Independence (1950s)Introduction Algerian War of Independence (1950s)
American Civil War (1861-1865)Introduction The Photographic History of the Civil War Photographic techniques and processes Reasons for the popularity of the tintype during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Cartes de visite during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Stereocard series on the American Civil War American Civil War (1861-1865): Photograph albums Advertising for photograph albums during the American Civil War Cameras American Civil War (1861-1865): Cameras Mathew Brady: Camera Photographic teams and photographic vans Photographer teams and photographic vans during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Contemporary photographic books Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1866) Composite photographs and photomontage Photomontage during the American Civil War (1861-1865) George N. Barnard: Composite photographs during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Tax revenue stamps Revenue stamps during the American Civil War Themes Breastworks and fortifications during the American Civil War (1861-1865) *** Weapons of the American Civil War (1861-1865) Railways and the American Civil War (1861-1865) American Civil War (1861-1865): Balloons Naval warfare during the American Civil War Prisons and prisoners during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Animals of the American Civil War (1861-1865) Old Abe *** American Civil War (1861-1865): Copying maps George N. Barnard: Panoramas *** American Civil War (1861-1865): Censorship Propaganda during the American Civil War (1861-1865) A.C. Kline: Jeff Davis "taking" Washington Commanders and officers of the American Civil War (1861-1865) *** Soldiers of the American Civil War (1861-1865) American Civil War (1861-1865): Portraits in brass bezels *** Camp life during American Civil War (1861-1865) Spies of the American Civil War (1861-1865) Families of the American Civil War (1861-1865) American Civil War (1861-1865): African-Americans American Civil War (1861-1865): The dead John Reekie: Collecting Remains of the Dead Death and dying during the American Civil War Placing photographs on the dead during the American Civil War Ghastly Photographic Experiences (1882) William H. Mumler: Spirit photography Patriotic and military backgrounds for portraits during the American Civil War (1861-1865) McPherson and Oliver: American Civil War *** Charity The United States Sanitary Commission Metropolitan Fair, New York (1864) The Great Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia (1864) Charity during the American Civil War: The Children of the Battlefield Charity during the American Civil War: Benjamin Franklin Veterans of the American Civil War (1861-1865) Events Alexander Gardner: The Battle of Antietam (September-October 1862) The Battle of Gettysburg and photographic evidence (July 1863) Timothy O'Sullivan: A council of war at Massaponax Church, VA (21 May 1864) G.O. Brown (active 1860-1889): Battlefield of the Wilderness *** War injuries and medical claims Major General Henry Barnum Private George Lemon R.B. Bontecou: Surgical injuries and their treatment during the American Civil War William H. Bell: Medical injuries during the American Civil War George A. Otis: Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens (1867 or later) People Abraham Lincoln: A photographic legacy Aftermath Portraits of the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln Execution of the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln: Mourning Popular culture Use of a cased photograph in the film "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) Colourising the past Colourising the past Photographic analysis 1st Lieutenant Henry. B. Loomis, adjutant of the 56th New York Infantry Regiment (Evolving case study) Conclusions Concluding remarks on the American Civil War
Anglo-Egyptian War (1882)Introduction Introduction to the Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) Events Anglo-Egyptian War (1882): Bombardment of Alexandria (1882) Anglo-Egyptian War (1882): Battle of Tel el-Kebir (1882) Photographers L. Fiorillo: Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) ***
Anglo-Zulu War (1879)Introduction Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Armenian massacres (1915-1923)Introduction Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
Boer War (1899-1902)Introduction Boer War (1899-1902) Photographers Underwood & Underwood: South Africa: The Boer War (1899-1902) *** Currency and postage Cyanotype banknotes and postage stamps issued during the Siege of Mafeking during the Boer War *** Fabrications Boer War (1899-1902): Fabrications
Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975) David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21)
Chechen War (1995-?)Introduction Chechen War (1995-) Chechen War: The Disappeared Photographers Photographers of the Chechen War
Cold War (1945-1991)Introduction The Cold War (ca. 1945-1991) Events The Berlin Wall Hungarian Uprising (1956) *** Prague Spring (1968) *** Cuban Missile Crisis *** Personalities Fidel Castro *** Ernesto Che Guevara *** Photographers Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua ***
Crimean War (1854-1856)Introduction Introduction to Crimean War (1854-1856) Photographers of the Crimean War (1854-1856) Journalism during the Crimean War (1854-1856) An anonymous soldier during the Crimean War (1854-1856) US Military Mission to the Crimea during the Crimean War (1854-1856) Photographers Roger Fenton: Crimean War (1854-1856) Roger Fenton: The artist's van Roger Fenton: Balaclava - Balaklava Roger Fenton: Crimean War (1854-1856) - Valley of the Shadow of Death James Robertson: Views of Sebastopol (ca. 1855) Léon Eugène Méhédin: Crimean War *** Jean-Charles Langlois: The Crimean War *** George Shaw Lefevre: Crimean War (1855) *** John Kirk: Turkey: B.H. Renkioi Nursing Florence Nightingale *** Mary Seacole *** Cemeteries and memorials James Robertson: Cemeteries and memorials of the Crimean War *** Heroes of the Crimea Cundall & Howlett: Crimean Heroes Conclusions Conclusions to the Crimean War (1854-1856)
Earliest war photographs (1840-1870)Introduction The earliest photographs of war and civil conflict War photography before photography Napoleonic Wars Early examples Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris Stefano Lecchi: The Defence of Rome (la difesa di Roma) (1849) *** John McCosh: Burma Jean-Charles Langlois: The Crimean War *** Gustave Le Gray: Camp de Châlons (1857)
Falklands - Malvinas War (1982)Introduction Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): Introduction Events Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): The Sinking of the ARA General Belgrano
First Sino-Japanese (1894-1895)Introduction Introduction to the First Sino-Japanese (1894-1895) ***
First World War (1914-1918)Introduction Introduction to the First World War (1914-1918) Patriotism and enlisting Your country needs you Patriotism and enlisting Logistics British Munitions Company Limited - Verdun (1916-1918) *** The Front Photographs of the front during the First World War (1914-1918) Soldiers during the First World War (1914-1918) Trench warfare during the First World War (1914-1918) *** Artillery and munitions during the First World War (1914-1918) Explosions during the First World War (1914-1918) *** Devastation of cities, towns and villages during the First World War (1914-1918) Forests and landscapes of the First World War (1914-1918) *** Tanks during the First World War (1914-1918) *** Allied intelligence panoramas taken during the First World War (1914-1918) Themes Propaganda during the First World War (1914-1918) Identity cards and passes during the First World War (1914-1918) Prisoners of war during the First World War (1914-1918) Refugees during the First World War (1914-1918) French photographic competitions during the First World War (1914-1918) Medical and nursing during the First World War (1914-1918) *** Death and remembrance during the First World War (1914-1918) Elliott and Fry during the First World War - portraits often gain a mournful interest (1917) Olive Edis: British women's services at the battlefields of France and Flanders (1918-1919) Veterans of the First World War (1914-1918) *** Censorship U.S. Army: Analysis of why photographs were censored during the First World War (1926) Aerial warfare, reconnaissance and bombing photography Zeppelins and balloons during the First World War (1914-1918) *** Aircraft during the First World War Mrs. Gladys Maud Cockburn-Lange and her faked First World War dogfight photographs First World War (1914-1918): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Edward Steichen (compiler): Album of photographs by the Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) (1918-1919) Stereoviews Stereoview series of the First World War Stereographs: Use of the same negatives by different companies Colour photography Colour photography during the First World War (1914-1918) French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes) French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes) Fernand Cuville: Autochromes of the First World War Color postcards of the battles at Verdun Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the First World War Photographic fabrications Photographic fabrications of the First World War Records of the War Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud: 1914-1919 La Guerre Conclusions Thoughts on photography during the First World War (1914-1918)
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)Introduction Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871): Introduction Soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) *** Photographers Adolphe Braun: Théâtre de la Guerre, 1870-1871 *** H. Schnaebeli: Der Deutsche Krieg von 1870. Metz und Umgebung [Series] *** Baudelaire, Saglio & Peter: Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) *** Charles-David Winter: Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) René Patrice Proudhon Dagron: Photomicrographs, carrier-pigeons and the beseiged city of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Greek Civil War (1946-1949)Introduction Greek Civil War (1946-1949): Introduction Photographers Greek Civil War (1946-1949): Photographers
Gulf War (1990-1991)Introduction Gulf War (1990-1991): Introduction Events Gulf War (1990-1991): The Ameriyah [Amiriyah] shelter (13 February 1991) Gulf War (1990-1991): The Highway of Death (26-27 February 1991) Gulf War (1990-1991): Sabotaging the oil wells of Kuwait (1991) Concluding thoughts Thoughts on the Gulf War (1990-1991)
Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)Introduction Indian Mutiny (1858): Introduction Events The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres Photographers Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Lucknow Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Mutineers hanged Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Hodson's Horse Robert & Harriet Tytler: India at the time of the Mutiny Darogha Ubbas Alli: Sekunder Bagh, Lucknow
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)Introduction Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988): Introduction
Iraq War (2003-2011)Introduction Justification for the Iraq War (2003-2011) Abu Ghraib Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib Photographers William Laven: War Models Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits
Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871)Introduction Introduction to the Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871) *** Personalities Giuseppe Garibaldi Photographers Eugène Sevaistre: Italian Risorgimento - Gaeta *** Eugène Sevaistre: Italian Risorgimento - Palermo *** Gustave Le Gray: Palermo (1860) *** Alessandro Pavia: Expedition of the Thousand Charity Charity play to benefit widows and orphans victims of the Battle of Novara
Korean Punitive Expedition (1871)Introduction Felice Beato: Korean Punitive Expedition (1871) People Koreans ***
Korean War (1950-1953)Introduction Korean War (1950-1953): Introduction Photographers Korean War (1950-1953): Photographers
Mexican Revolution (1910-early 1920s)Introduction Mexican Revolution (1910-early 1920s): Introduction Photographers Manuel Ramos: Mexican Revolution ***
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)Introduction Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Events Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay, Jr. (1847) Commemorative medals Letter from W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War, to Major General Z. Taylor, Commanding Army of Occupation, Monterey, Mexico (5 October 1846)
Middle East (1948-?)Introduction Middle East - a cycle of wars and uprisings (1948-): Introduction Lebanon 1982-2000 The Intifadas Photographic studies on Israel, Palestine and the Intifadas Photographers George Azar: War photography in Lebanon (1982-200) Conclusions Thoughts on the cycle of wars and uprisings in the Middle East
Modoc War (1872-1873)Introduction Modoc War (1872-1873)
North American Indian Wars (1860-1900)Introduction North American Indian Wars: Introduction North American Indian Wars: Portraits of Native American leaders North American Indian Wars: The photography of aftermath Native American: The search for the Vanishing Race and a vanishing world Photographers of Native Americans Modoc War (1872-1873) Modoc War (1872-1873)
Northern Ireland - The Troubles (1960s-1998)Introduction Introduction to The Troubles (1960s-1998)
Paris Commune (1871)Introduction Paris Commune (1871): Introduction Photomontage during the Paris Commune (1871) Themes Paris Commune (1871): Photographs of wanted and dead communards Paris Commune (1871): Destruction of the Vendome Column Paris Commune Album (1871) Jules Andrieu: Disasters of the War (1870-1871) *** Photographers Alphonse J. Liébert: Paris Commune (1871)
Russian Revolution (1917)Introduction Russian Revolution and the aftermath (1917): Introduction Photographers Photographers of the Russian Revolution (1917)
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)Introduction Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905): Introduction Photographers Photographers of the Russo-Japanese War
Second Afghan War (1878-1880)Introduction Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880): Introduction *** Photographers John Burke: Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1879) Sir Benjamin Simpson: British occupation of Kandahar album (1880)
Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860)Introduction Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860): Introduction Opium Photographers Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the Pehtang fort Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the taking of the Taku Fort Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the march to Bejing Felice Beato: Prince Kung / Prince Gong Qinwang of China Corporal Wotherspoon: Second Chinese Opium War *** Regimental groups Regimental groups in Tientsin, China (1861)
Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1936)Introduction Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1936)
Second Schleswig War / Prussian-Danish War (1864)Introduction Introduction to the Second Schleswig War / Prussian-Danish War (1864) *** Photographers C.F. Brandt: Second Schleswig War / Prussian-Danish War (1864)
Second World War (1939-1945)Introduction Second World War (1939-1945): Introduction Pre-War propaganda warning of imminent danger John Heartfield: Political photomontages AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung Marinus: Anti-Nazi political photomontage in France Propaganda and public information Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler - Nazi propaganda series Heinrich Hoffmann (Editor) & Josef Bürckel (Foreword): Hitler holt die Saar heim (1938) A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) Winston Churchill - Wanted for incitement to Murder Teresa Zarnower: Obrona Warszawy - The defense of Warsaw (1942-1945) American posters from the Second World War (1939-1945): Aspects of photography revealed in movies before, during, and after the Second World War The home front Second World War (1939-1945): The home front The war in Europe Second World War (1939-1945): Soviet photographers Margaret Bourke-White: Purple Heart Valley Robert Capa: D-Day, Normandy (6 June 1944) Robert Capa: Second World War Wire Photos *** Liberation of Paris (1944) *** Nazi suicides in Leipzig, Germany (1945) Second World War (1939-1945): Resistance in lands under Nazi occupation Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945) Richard Peter Sr.: Dresden. Eine Kamera klagt an. Ein historisches Dokument (1949) *** The Holocaust Introduction to the Holocaust The Holocaust: The Pre-Second World War setting The Holocaust: Photographing inside the ghettos The Holocaust: Death camps The Holocaust: Children The Holocaust: Photographers who died Internment camps Internment camps in the USA during the Second World War The War in the Pacific Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 *** Second World War (1939-1945): The War in the Pacific Naval Aviation Photographic Unit W. Eugene Smith: War in the Pacific SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) Hiroshima (6 August 1945) War: Atomic explosions: Hiroshima Nagasaki (9 August 1945) War: Atomic explosions: Nagasaki Aerial photography Second World War (1939-1945): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Harold E. Edgerton: Night experiments at Stonehenge Memory D'Ora: Slaughterhouse series (1948-1958) James Fee: The Peleliu Project The legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary photography
South Ossetia War (2008) Jean Andrieu: Rome ***
Spanish American War (1898)Introduction Spanish American War (1898): Introduction Photographers in Cuba Photographers of the Spanish American War (1898) Aftermath in Cuba Lamarque (Santiago): Photograph album - Maj. General Leonard Wood in Cuba (ca. 1899) The Philippines The Spanish American War in the Philippines ***
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)Introduction Introduction to the Spanish Civil War Photographers Photographers of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Robert Capa: Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano Gerda Taro: Woman Photographer Crushed by Loyalist Tank Dora Maar: Photo Report of the Evolution of “Guernica” (May - June 1937) The Mexican Suitcase Posters Posters from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) *** Aerial photography Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography
TerrorismEvents World Trade Center (September 11, 2001) Photographers Kevin Bubriski: Pilgrimage: Looking At Ground Zero (2001) ***
The Holocaust (1933-1945)Introduction Introduction to the Holocaust The Holocaust Introduction to the Holocaust The Holocaust: The Pre-Second World War setting The Holocaust: Photographing inside the ghettos The Holocaust in progress *** The Holocaust: Death camps The Holocaust: Children The Holocaust: Photographers who died Aftermath *** The Holocaust: Women concentration camp guards *** Photographers Henryk Ross: Lodz Ghetto, Poland (1943-1945) The Holocaust in contemporary photography The legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary photography Jeffrey Wolin: Written In Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust (1992-1994) Jack Burman: KZ
Vietnam War (1961-1975)Introduction The French Indochina War and the origins of the Vietnam War (1961-1975) Increasing American involvement in Vietnam Photographers Photographers of the Vietnam War (1961-1975) Ronald Haeberle: The My Lai Massacre (16 March 1968) Kyoichi Sawada: The Vietnam War Legacy The photographic legacy of the Vietnam War (1961-1975) Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home Mikhail Kudish: Nick Ut and Kim Phuc (2012) David Dare Parker: Agent Orange, Vietnam ***
War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870)Introduction War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Photographers Esteban Garcia: War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870)
Year of Revolutions (1848)Europe Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris Year of Revolutions (1848): Great Britain *** Year of Revolutions (1848): Hungary
Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999)Introduction Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Examples of photography from the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Thoughts on the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Photographers Photographers of the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999)
Styles and movementsIntroduction Styles and movements
Avant-gardeIntroduction Introduction to avant-garde photography Techniques Introduction to solarization Examples of solarization Movements Constructivism Photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism Alfred Stieglitz: Equivalents Man Ray: Solarized nudes Maurice Tabard: Multiple exposures and solarizations Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Viewpoints Lotte Jacobi: Photogenics Minor White: Equivalents, similes and visual metaphors Heinz Hajek-Halke: Experimental photography André Kertész: Distortions Weegee: Distortions Bill Brandt: Distortions László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms Christian Schad: Schadographs Frantisek Drtikol: Nudes Frantisek Drtikol: Les Nus de Drtikol (1929) *** Hans Bellmer: La Poupée Eli Lotar: Le Theatre Alfred Jarry et l’Hostilite Publique (1930) Brassaï: Graffiti Events Film und Foto - FiFo (1929)
BauhausIntroduction Bauhaus Photographers László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Viewpoints Herbert Bayer: Photomontages Josef Albers: Photocollages (1929-1932) *** Film und Foto (1929) Film und Foto - FiFo (1929)
Dusseldorf SchoolExamples Dusseldorf School Photographers Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies Candida Höfer: Architectural space
f/64Introduction Introduction to F/64 Introduction to f/64 f/64 exhibitions Group f/64 Manifesto Ansel Adams on f/64 Legacy Ansel Adams: The New Ansel Adams Photography Series
FuturismIntroduction F.T. Martinetti: The Foundations and Manifesto of Futurism (1908) Futurism *** Photographers Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890-1960) and Arturo Bragaglia (1893-1962)
ModernismIntroduction Modernism Modernism: Portraits Photographers Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Viewpoints Florence Henri: Compositions Piet Zwart: 12 Fotografien (Portfolio) *** Germaine Krull: Métal Edward Weston: Vegetables Edward Weston: Shells Charles Sheeler: Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company E.O. Hoppé: Amerika Albert Renger-Patzsch: Die Welt ist schön John Vanderpant: Canadian Modernism Cinema and experimental photography Sergei Eisenstein: Strike (1925) Dziga Vertov:The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Case studies USA: New Mexico: Taos France: Marseille: The Transporter Bridge (Pont Transbordeur)
NaturalismIntroduction Naturalism and Pictorialism Photographers Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) Peter Henry Emerson: Idylls of the Norfolk Broads (1897) *** Peter Henry Emerson: Marsh Leaves (1895)
New Bauhaus / Art Institute of ChicagoIntroduction The New Bauhaus Harry Callahan Harry Callahan: Eleanor and Barbara Harry Callahan: Colour work Aaron Siskind Aaron Siskind: Chicago Aaron Siskind: Gloucester Arthur Siegel Arthur Siegel: Light abstractions *** Arthur Siegel: Lucidagrams Arthur Siegel: Photograms ***
New Objectivity - Neue SachlichkeitIntroduction Introduction to New Objectivity Karl Blossfeldt Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1952) Karl Blossfeldt: Books *** Karl Blossfeldt‘s Original "Urformen der Kunst" / "Art Forms in Nature" August Sander August Sander: Portraits Albert Renger-Patzsch Albert Renger-Patzsch: Books Albert Renger-Patzsch: Die Welt ist schön Albert Renger-Patzsch: Blüte der Hainbuche ***
New TopographicsIntroduction New Topographics (1975) Photographic legacy Robert Adams: The construction of suburbia Lewis Baltz: New Industrial parks near Irvine, California (1974) Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
OrientalismIntroduction Orientalism Odalisques Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids Daguerreotypes: Egypt Travellers Clara Whitcomb`s diary: Egypt and the Levant (1898-1899) Photographers of monuments Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Egypt (1862) William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) Frank Mason Good: Good's Eastern Series *** Photographers of people Roger Fenton: Oriental series W. Hammerschmidt: Portraits Lehnert & Landrock: Portraits Studio props Mummies and Sphinxes as foreground props Cultural diversity Icons of the South - Portraits of Ouleds-Nails (Algeria 1860-1910)
Photo-SecessionCamera Notes Camera Notes *** The Photo-Secession Photo-Secession members Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, 291 Fifth Avenue, New York City Camera Work Camera Work - An Apology Camera Work Photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn: London (1909) Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910)
Post-modernismIntroduction Introduction to Post-Modernism Photographers Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills Gillian Wearing: Album (2003) Nikki S. Lee: Projects Sandy Skoglund: Installations and visions Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations and other series Thomas Demand: Three dimensional sculptural forms Oliver Boberg: Distilled realities Carl Zimmerman: Cold City Lori Nix: Accidentally Kansas Sarah Hobbs: Small Problems in Living
Pre-RaphaelitePhotographers David Wilkie Wynfield: Portraits of Victorian painters and illustrators Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits John Robert Parsons: Jane Morris *** Frederick Henry Evans: England, Kelmscott Manor Narratives Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Mythological Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Arthurian Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Historical *** Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Shakespearean
Subjective photography - Subjektive fotografieIntroduction Introduction to subjective photography
SurrealismIntroduction Introduction to Surrealism Surrealism: Ancestral images of the bizarre Dada Surrealism: Photographers and artists Publications Surrealism: Publications Minotaure Exhibitions Surrealist exhibitions Photographers and artists Salvador Dali Eli Lotar: Le Theatre Alfred Jarry et l’Hostilite Publique (1930) Hans Bellmer: La Poupée Marcel Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (created 1915-1923) *** Brassaï: Graffiti Man Ray: 1929 Man Ray: Facile (1935) Man Ray: Rayograms Man Ray: Electricité (1931) *** Man Ray: Solarized nudes Dora Maar: Le Simulateur - The Simulator - The Pretender *** Roger Parry: Banalité (1930) Georges Hugnet: Surrealism Raoul Ubac: Surrealism Milos Korecek: Abstractions (Fokalke) Bill Brandt: Distortions André Kertész: Distortions Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Lucrecia - Classic Theme Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Good Reputation Sleeping (La Buena Fama Durmiendo) Maurice Tabard: Multiple exposures and solarizations Roland Penrose: The Road is Wider Than Long - An Image Diary from the Balkans July - August 1938 (1939) Angus McBean: Christmas cards Val Telberg: Photomontages Film Surrealism and filmmaking Jean Cocteau: Le Sang d'un Poète Continuation Surrealism: The continuation Melvin Sokolsky: The bubble series (1963) Jerry Uelsmann: Trees Maggie Taylor: Landscape of Dreams Joan Fontcuberta: Fabricated sciences and alternative histories Paul Biddle: The Archipelago of Fantasy Islands
VorticismIntroduction Vorticism Vorticists *** Blast - Review Of The Great English Vortex *** Photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vorticism
TechniquesIntroduction Process and product Terry King: Sixteen Different Alternative Processes from One Negative Card photographs Card photograph types Oddities Bass-relief postcards (1900-1910) ***
Alternative process movementIntroduction Introduction to the alternative process movement Reference sets Terry King: Sixteen Different Alternative Processes from One Negative Contemporary daguerreotypes Contemporary daguerreotypes *** Irving Pobboravsky: Contemporary Daguerreotypes *** Gregory Popovitch: Contemporary Daguerreotypes *** Mike Robinson: Contemporary Daguerreotypes *** Jerry Spagnoli: Contemporary Daguerreotypes *** Contemporary tintypes and wet collodion Contemporary tintypes Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits Contemporary dark tents and dark boxes Contemporary bromoil prints Contemporary bromoil prints The Bromoil Circle of Great Britain - Centenary 2007 Contemporary mordancage Elizabeth Opalenik: Mordançage *** Fabricated cameras and pinhole Fabricated Cameras and Contemporary Pinhole Photography *** Fast vanishing remnants of the past Afghan Box Camera Project ***
Card photographsIntroduction Card photograph types Introduction to card stock Pasting photographs to card stock Introduction to backmarks Dating Dating cabinet cards NPA - National Photographic Association NPA - National Photographic Association: Backmarks Themes Card photographs of actors, performers and entertainers *** Cartes de visite: Objects Cabinet cards: Objects Repurposing card photographs Bohumil Stepan: Satirical photocollages The Whimsical Carte de Visite World of the Carte Horse Conspiracy and Archived Associates... Contemporary artworks using card photographs
Cabinet cardsIntroduction Cabinet cards: Introduction Cabinet Portraits. - A New Impulse for Portraiture (1866) Dating cabinet cards Dating cabinet cards Cabinet cards with printed decorative mounts Painted cabinet cards Cabinet cards: Painted Owen Angel: Follett Family Album of Children Costumed for a Fancy Dress Ball (ca 1860) *** Themes Cabinet cards: Portraits The softening technique of Andrei Denier Cabinet cards: Portraits with decorative surrounds Cabinet cards: Celebrities Cabinet cards: Politicians *** Cabinet cards: Royalty *** Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles Cabinet cards: Military Cabinet cards: Ethnic and traditional costumes Cabinet cards: Ethnic: Natives Americans Cabinet cards: Post-mortem and memorial portraits Cabinet cards: Advertising Cabinet cards: Charity *** Banner girls and ladies Cabinet cards: Animals Cabinet cards: Cityscapes Cabinet cards: Landscapes New York facades shown in cabinet cards Cabinet cards: Multiple exposures Cabinet cards: Photomontage Cabinet cards: Spirit photography *** Cabinet cards: Events Cabinet cards: Objects Cabinet cards: Scientific Cabinet cards: Photographica Placement of studio props, backgrounds and foregrounds Cabinet cards: Studio prop placement Cabinet cards: Backgrounds and foregrounds Stories Robinson & Roi: The Famous Glass Dress - Royal Robe of Princess Eulalia McDonald: Advertising cabinet cards for the Storm Sign Co., South Bend, Ind. *** Backs Introduction to the backmarks on cabinet cards Cabinet cards: Backs: Awards Cabinet cards: Backs: Royal patronage Cabinet cards: Backs: Graphics that place photography with the arts Cabinet cards: Backs: Photographic studios Cabinet cards: Backs: Photographica Cabinet cards: Backs: Electric light *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Shared graphic motifs Cabinet cards: Backs: Missing studio details *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Changes in studio ownership Cabinet cards: Backs: Women photographers Cabinet cards: Backs: Landscapes, cityscapes and buildings Cabinet cards: Backs: Diverse occupations *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Whimsy *** Overstamped cabinet card backs Tissue guards Tissue guards Cabinet card mailers Cabinet card mailers and envelopes *** Albums Cartes de visite and cabinet card photograph albums Contemporary art and the cabinet card Cabinet cards as contemporary art
Cartes de visiteIntroduction Introduction to cartes de visite Cartes de visite: Women photographers Introduction to the carte de visite album André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: The innovation of the carte de visite André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Uncut carte de visite sheets Photographers Camille Silvy: Carte de visite portraits Archibald Burns: Cartes de visite of Scotland John Thomson: China, cartes de visite (ca 1870) *** Abdullah frères: Turkey: Cartes de visite portraits *** Card stock The card stock used for cartes de visite, cabinet cards and mounted photographs Carte de visite: Printers Proofs Cartes de visite: Proof stamps and proof copies Fronts - Portraits Introduction to cartes de visite portraits Placement of studio props, backgrounds and foregrounds Cartes de visite: Studio prop placement Cartes de visite: Backgrounds and foregrounds Themes Cartes de visite: Babies and children *** Cartes de visite: Celebrities Cartes de visite: Politicians Cartes de visite: French royalty *** Cartes de visite: British royalty Cartes de visite: Occupations and roles Cartes de visite: Military Cartes de visite: Ethnic and traditional costumes Cartes de visite: Native Americans *** Cartes de visite: Spanish criminals (ca. 1870) Fronts - Post-mortem portraits Cartes de visite: Post-mortem portraits Fronts - Objects Cartes de visite: Objects Fronts - Art Cartes de visite: Art Fronts - Maps Cartes de visite: Maps Fronts - Advertising Cartes de visite: Advertising Cartes de visite: Advertising for photographers Ranger & Austen: Clairvoyant Medical Examinations - Buffum & Cleveland Fronts - Photographica Cartes de visite: Photographica Fronts - Places Cartes de visite: Cityscapes Cartes de visite: Landscapes Fronts - Events Cartes de visite: Events Fronts - Nature Cartes de visite: Nature Fronts - Scientific Cartes de visite: Scientific *** Humour Cartes de visite: Humour Fronts - Memorials Cartes de visite: Memorial portraits Fronts - Manipulated Painted cartes de visite Cartes de visite: Multiple exposures Cartes de visite: Photomontage and photo collage C.W. Applegreen creates a composite photograph Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875) Uses of cartes de visite J.E. Mayall: Use of cartes de visite to support police investigations Contemporary uses of cartes de visite for employment Uses of cartes de visite to find a partner Etiquette Cartes de visite: Etiquette Cameras Cartes de visite cameras *** A contemporary thought on the properties, accessories and novelties used in 19th studios Backs Introduction to the backmarks of cartes de visite Backs - Studios Cartes de visite: Backs: Photographic studios Cartes de visite: Backs: Photograph cars *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Cameras *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Photographic supplies *** Backs - Patronage and awards Cartes de visite: Backs: Royal patronage Cartes de visite: Backs: Awards Backs - Themes Cartes de visite: Backs: Additional products Cartes de visite: Backs: Change of business ownership Cartes de visite: Backs: Diverse occupations Cartes de visite: Backs: Product promotion *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Whimsy *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Women photographers Backs - Services Cartes de visite: Backs: Negatives preserved, copies made and enlargements Cartes de visite: Backs: Teaching available *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Elevator available Backs - Motifs Cartes de visite: Backs: Catalogue pages Cartes de visite: Backs: Shared graphic motifs Cartes de visite: Backs: Landscapes *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Strap and buckle Cartes de visite: Backs: Printed signatures *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Transportation *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Ribbons *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Egyptian motifs Cartes de visite: Backs: Plants Cartes de visite: Backs: Graphics that place photography with the arts Backs - Geographical spread Cartes de visite: Backs: Geographical spread Tissue guards Tissue guards Frames Photograph frames for cartes de visite Albums Cartes de visite and cabinet card photograph albums Directions for inserting cards into cartes de visite albums Examples of filler cards in cartes de visite albums Carte de visite mailers *** Cartes de visite boxes, cases, wallets and envelopes Storage Cartes de visite: Storage and viewers
Drawing and optical devicesIntroduction Drawing and optical devices Albrecht Dürer: Drawing and drafting aids Albrecht Dürer: Drawing and drafting aids *** Henry Fox Talbot on drawing aids Pantograph Invention of the pantograph Zograscope Zograscope Camera obscura Camera obscura: Design and use Portable camera obscura Historic and contemporary camera obscuras Abelardo Morell: Camera obscura Camera lucida The camera lucida Camera lucida: Design and use Henry Fox Talbot: Camera lucida drawings (1833) John Herschel: Camera lucida drawings Silhouette Silhouettes Physionotrace Physionotrace Perspective Perspective Dioramas Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Dioramas
Camera lucidaIntroduction Camera lucida: Design and use Examples The camera lucida Practitioners Captain Basil Hall: Forty Etchings From Sketches Made With The Camera Lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828 (1829) Henry Fox Talbot: Camera lucida drawings (1833) Henry Fox Talbot on using the Camera Lucida at Lake Como (1833) John Herschel: Camera lucida drawings
Camera obscuraIntroduction A history of the camera obscura Early descriptions John Barrow: The camera obscura (1735) George Adams: The camera obscura (1794) Examples Camera obscura: Design and use Historic and contemporary camera obscuras Portable camera obscura Portable camera obscura Tent-type camera obscura People using camera obscura People using camera obsuras *** Military uses of camera obscura *** Ephemera Camera obscura: Ephemera *** Mementos Mementos showing camera obscura *** Photographers Abelardo Morell: Camera obscura Denis Farley: Camera obscuras ***
DioramasLouis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and Charles Marie Bouton Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Dioramas Contemporary accounts - Regent's Park Diorama The Diorama, Regent's Park. London (1826) The Diorama, Regent's Park. London (1829) Contemporary accounts of the Diorama - Regent's Park. London (1830) Patents John Arrowsmith's Diorama, or Method of Exhibiting Pictures - British Patent No. 4899, 10 February 1824 Dioramas in museums Dioramas in Natural History Museums Eadweard Muybridge: Animals in motion Photographers Joseph Holmes: amnh (American Museum of Natural History)
PantographIntroduction Invention of the pantograph Photographers François Willème: Photosculpture
PerspectiveIntrouction Perspective
PhysionotraceExamples Physionotrace Contemporary descriptions Thomas Jefferson and Charles Willson Peale on Hawkins's physiognotrace (1803) Physionotrace machines ***
SilhouetteExamples Silhouettes Drawing silhouettes *** Phrenology proved, illustrated, and applied (1838) The silhouette as a graphical element The silhouette as a graphic element within photography ***
Photo-mechanical processesIntroduction Introduction to photo-mechanical processes Early processes Printing from daguerreotype plates *** Armand Hippolyte Fizeau: Photoengraving Henry Fox Talbot: Photogenic engravings *** Introduction to photolithographs Collotypes *** Halftones Heliogravures *** Photochroms Rotogravures *** Woodburytypes
ChromolithographsInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques Chromolithographs ***
CollotypesInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques Introduction Collotypes *** Books illustrated with collotypes Books Oscar Gustave Rejlander: The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (London, 1872). James T. Gardner: Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, and Fourth Annual Report... (1880) *** José Agusto da Cunha Moraes: Africa Occidental (1885) *** Ogawa Kazumasa: Flowers
HalftonesInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques Introduction Halftones
HeliogravuresInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques Heliogravures ***
Photochromes - PhotochromsInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques Examples Photochroms Themes Photochroms: Night *** Photochroms: Railways *** Photographers William Henry Jackson: Photochroms *** Detroit Photographic Co: Photochromes Adia: Photochroms *** P.Z.: Photochromes ***
PhotogravuresExamples of photogravure Examples of photogravures *** G. Christopher Davies: The Scenery Broads and Rivers, Norfolk & Suffolk (ca 1883) *** Peter Henry Emerson: Marsh Leaves (1895) Publications with photogravures Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910) Adelaide Hanscom Leeson: Sonnets from the Portuguese (ca. 1916) Camera Work Contemporary photogravures Contemporary photogravures ***
PhotolithographsIntroduction Introduction to photolithographs Photographers Adolphe Bilordeaux: Photolithographs from the Histoire Générale de Paris (1883) *** Isaac A. Rehn: Photolithographs *** Cutting & Turner: Photolithographs ***
RotogravuresInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques Types of photo-mechanical prints Rotogravures ***
WoodburytypesThe process The Woodburytype Woodburytypes Books illustrated with woodburytypes Publications including woodburytypes Walter B. Woodbury (ed.): Treasure spots of the world (1875) *** Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield: Men of Mark (1876-1883) Lock and Whitfield (attributed): The Theatre (1877-1897) *** Galerie Contemporaine, Litteraire, Artistique Paris - Artiste *** Paris-Theatre / Paris-Portrait Lock and Whitfield (attributed): The Theatre (1877-1897) *** John Thomson: Street Life in London Jules Bernard Luys: Les Emotions chez les sujets en état d'hypnotisme (1887) J.C. Burrow: Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground scenes by flash-light (1893) The Saturday Programme and Sketch Book *** Ed. Heron-Allen: Violin-Making (As It Was and Is): being a Historical, Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional (1885) Photographers Andrew Young: Woodburytypes of trees
Popular formatsPostcards Painted postcards *** Bass-relief postcards (1900-1910) *** Cigarette cards Cigarette cards of landscapes *** Sports cards and cigarette cards Wallets of miniature views *** Miniature photographs Souvenir sets of travel photographs
Photo postcardsIntroduction Introduction to photo postcards Photographers William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards Henry M. Beach: Exaggeration photo postcards Publishers Ross Verlag: Publisher of real photographic postcards Types Real photo postcards: Multiple exposures Real Photo Postcards: Occupations and roles ***
PostcardsIntroduction Introduction to postcards Regional studies Alfred Raquez: Laos: Postcards *** Themes Real photo postcards: Animals *** Real photo postcards: African Americans *** Exaggeration postcards Exaggeration postcards William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards Henry M. Beach: Exaggeration photo postcards Painted postcards Painted postcards *** Photo-insert postcards Photo-insert postcards *** Art postcards Japanese Art Photography preserved on Postcards *** Bass-relief postcards Bass-relief postcards (1900-1910) *** Colour postcards Color postcards of the battles at Verdun Political postcards Unemployment in Thatcher's Britain
Process and productIntroduction Process and product Daguerreotype plate sizes Silver hallmarks on daguerreotype plates Card photograph types More unusual types Ivorytypes and American Ivorytypes *** Opalotypes Panotypes / Pannotypes
Albumen printsIntroduction Albumen prints Painted albumen prints Books illustrated with albumen prints History and development The Albumen Print Blanquart-Evard: Photographic Investigations (1849) The wet plate collodion process The manufacture of albumen paper *** Themes Albumen prints: Portraits Albumen prints: Ethnic and traditional costumes Albumen prints: Occupationals Albumen prints: Multiple exposures Albumen prints: Advertising Albumen prints: Architecture Albumen prints: Events Albumen prints: Still life Albumen prints: Objects Albumen prints: Transportation Albumen prints: Places Albumen prints: Landscapes *** Albumen prints: Panoramas Albumen prints: Scientific Albumen prints: Experimental and manipulated photography Albumen prints: Photomontage Albumen prints: War Photographers Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China Ferdinand Küss: Still lives *** George N. Barnard: Panoramas ***
Mammoth plate photographyIntroduction Introduction to mammoth plate
AmbrotypesExamples Examples of ambrotypes Painted ambrotypes Ambrotypes: Half the back removed to show positive and negative areas *** Ambrotypes: Used as the basis for illustrations *** Themes Ambrotypes: Portrait Ambrotypes: Occupationals *** Ambrotypes: Military Ambrotypes: Backgrounds *** Ambrotypes: Exteriors *** Ambrotypes: Animals *** Ambrotypes: Objects *** Ambrotypes: Photographic studios *** Ambrotypes: Photographica *** Advertisements Ambrotypes: Advertisements Cased photographs Marketing: Cased photographs Cased ambrotypes *** Japanese ambrotypes Stereo ambrotypes Stereo ambrotypes Contemporary Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits
AristotypesExamples American Aristotype Co. (Jamestown, New York)
AutochromesExamples of Autochromes Examples of Autochromes Introduction Autochromes: Introduction Invention and the process Autochromes: Invention Autochromes: Technique Themes Autochromes: Portrait Autochromes: Landscape Autochromes: Still life Autochromes: Scientific Autochromes: Erotica and nudes *** Autochromes: Art Autochromes: From around the world Autochromes: Stereo *** Pictorialism Pictorialists and the Autochrome Autochromes of the First World War (1914-1918) French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes) Autochromes: Autochromists of WWI Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet (1909-1931) Photographers The Lumière Brothers and the family: Autochromes Fernand Cuville: Autochromes of the First World War Fernand Cuville: Greece: Mount Athos Women photographers using Autochromes Autochromes: Women photographers Publications using Autochromes Autochromes: L'Illustration Autochromes: National Geographic Autochromes: Farbenphotographie Amateur photographers using Autochromes Autochromes: Amateurs Packaging Packaging for autochromes ***
Bon TonsBon Ton advertising and tents Bon Tons: Advertising *** W.H. Pearce: The Forest Home & Algonquin Bon Ton Tent
Bromoil printsPhotographers Rudolf Koppitz: Bromoil prints *** Contemporary bromoil prints Contemporary bromoil prints The Bromoil Circle of Great Britain - Centenary 2007
CalotypesIntroduction Introduction to the calotype *** Early paper prints and their confusing terminology Paper negatives and paper mills Themes Calotypes: Still life *** Calotypes: Portraits Calotypes: Exteriors Calotypes: Art *** Painted calotypes Painted calotypes Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey *** Henry Fox Talbot: The Pencil of Nature (1844-1846) Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) Hill & Adamson: Calotypes (1843-1847) *** Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843) Hill & Adamson: A Series of Calotype Views - St. Andrews (1846) Hill & Adamson: Newhaven William Sterling: Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) Comte Frederic Flacheron: Rome Giacomo Caneva: Rome Victor Prevost: Paper negatives (ca 1853) *** Julien Vallou de Villeneuve: Negatives *** W. & F. Langenheim: Calotypes and salt prints John Shaw Smith: Calotypes Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia: Negatives François Joseph Edouard de Campigneules: Calotypes (ca 1858) *** Édouard Delessert: Ile de Sardaigne: Cagliari et Sassari, 40 Vues Photographiques (1854) Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut: Belgian cityscapes *** Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut: Portraits *** Compilations Nicolaas Henneman: Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent (1847) Studios and printing works Nicolaas Henneman: The Reading Establishment - Talbot House *** Blanquart-Evrard process Blanquart-Evrard process prints *** Fading Punch (1847) on fading photographs and fading love Photographic Society of London: Fading Committee (1855)
Carbon printsPhotographers Adolphe Braun - A Continental Printing Establishment (1874)
Cliché-verreExamples Cliché verre Photographers Man Ray: Les vois lactées (1974)
ColourIntroduction Introduction to colour Hand-painted photographs Introduction to hand-painted photographs Packaging Packaging for colour plates and film *** Photochromes, photochroms and related processes Léon Vidal: Le Trésor Artistique de la France (1878) *** Photochroms Early colour processes Hillotypes James Clerk Maxwell: Experiments with colour Louis Ducos du Hauron: Early experiments with colour Gabriel Lippmann: Lippmann colour glass plate process Frederic Eugene Ives: San Francisco Earthquake (1906) *** Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Early colour photographs of trees and tracks Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Ethnic and traditional costumes Paget plates Paget plates: Packaging *** Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) Autochromes The Lumière Brothers and the family: Autochromes Examples of Autochromes Pictorialists and the Autochrome Fernand Cuville: Greece: Mount Athos Colour photography and the First World War (1914-1918) Colour photography during the First World War (1914-1918) French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes) Fernand Cuville: Autochromes of the First World War Color postcards of the battles at Verdun Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the First World War Artistic colour photography in Europe Keld Helmer-Petersen: Colour Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome Franco Fontana: Colour *** Nature photography and colour Eliot Porter: Colour Ernst Haas: Colour Documentary photography and colour Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet (1909-1931) FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour John Bulmer: Colour Documerica Project (1971-1977) Street photography and colour The acceptance of colour in North American street photography Harry Callahan: Colour work William Eggleston: Colour Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places Helen Levitt: Colour Saul Leiter: New York in colour Joel Meyerowitz: Street photography Fred Herzog: Colour *** Fashion and the use of colour The rise of colour in fashion photography Advertising and commercial colour Nickolas Muray: Advertising Colour abstracts Henry Holmes Smith: Colour abstractions Colourising the past Colourising the past
Contemporary daguerreotypesIntroduction Contemporary daguerreotypes ***
CyanotypesIntroduction Cyanotypes Examples Cyanotypes: Examples Cyanotypes: Portraits *** Cyanotypes: Trick photography *** Cyanotypes: Fabric *** Cyanotypes: Landscapes *** Cyanotypes: Objects Cyanotypes: Industrial Cyanotypes: Scientific *** Stereo cyanotypes Cyanotypes: Postcards *** Cyanotype banknotes and postage stamps issued during the Siege of Mafeking during the Boer War *** Cyanotypes and Pictorialism Contemporary cyanotypes Permanence Permanence of cyanotypes Photographers Anna Atkins: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions (1843-1854) Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (ca. 1854) Herbert Boucher Dobbie: New Zealand Ferns. 148 Varieties (1880) Bertha Jaques: Cyanotypes of plants *** Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall: Ethnological studies Arthur Wesler Dow: Landscapes Henry P. Bosse: Views on the Mississippi River Georges Poulet: Aurora Argentina (1890s) Gold mine claim of Ralph Ira Murphy on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (1899) *** Francis Benjamin Johnston: Cyanotypes *** Charles F. Lummis: Native Americans Eadweard Muybridge: Cyanotypes Albums Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later)
DaguerreotypesAnnouncement The announcement of photography OR Arago annonce la découverte de Daguerre Introduction to the Daguerreotype The process The Daguerreotype Early accounts The Daguerrotipe - Private letter from Professor S.F.B. Morse to the editor of the Observer, dated, Paris, March 9th (1839) The 'Daguerreotype.' - We have seen the views taken in Paris (1839) Antoine Claudet: Advert for "the DAGUERREOTYPE; or, Nature delineated by Herself" Visit to Plumbe's Gallery, New York (1846) Manuals and instructions Daguerreotype manuals and instructions Daguerreotypomania Daguerreotypomania Interesting group posed for a Daguerreotype by a friend of the family / Interesting and valuable result (1855) Publications that did, or said they did, use daguerreotypes as the basis for their illustrations The influence of the daguerreotype upon art Paris et ses Environs Reproduits par le Daguerrotype, Sous la Direction de M. Ch. Philipon (Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, 1840) Lorenzo Suscipj (daguerreotypist) and Johann Jakob Falkeisen (artist, Swiss, 1804–1883): Vues d'Italie d'après la daguerreotype (Ferdinando Artaria et Fils, 1840-1841) *** Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844) Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842) T. Bettinger: Vues d'Algérie prises au dauguerréotype (1847) *** Bruges, ses Monuments et ses Tableaux, edited by Daveluy (Bruges, Daveluy, 1855) Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin: Vues de Paris (1845) *** Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d’Afrique (1856) Cameras, equipment and plates Daguerreotype cameras Daguerreotype equipment Daguerreotype apparatus (1843) Daguerreotype apparatus (1853) Plates Daguerreotype plates *** Daguerreotype plate sizes Silver hallmarks on daguerreotype plates Mats Daguerreotype mats Packaging and labels Packaging for daguerreotypes Labels for Daguerreotypists The process of having a portrait taken Portrait factory on Broadway, New York Exposure times Daguerreotype exposure times Costs Costs charged for Daguerreotypes Painted backgrounds and daguerreotypists Studio painted backgrounds for daguerreotypes Antoine Claudet: Backgrounds for daguerreotypes Themes Daguerreotypes: Portraits Daguerreotypes: Ethnic Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Chinese Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Native Americans Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Spanish Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Norwegian *** Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles Daguerreotypes: Occupations and roles of women Daguerreotypes: Celebrities Daguerreotypes: Actors *** Shakespearean characters from "Illustrated Tallis's Shakespeare" (1860) Jenny Lind (1820-1887) Daguerreotypes: Politicians Daguerreotypes: Military Daguerreotypes: Post-mortem portraits Daguerreotypes: Charitable causes Daguerreotypes: Events Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) Daguerreotypes: Art Daguerreotypes: Exteriors Daguerreotypes: Landscapes Daguerreotypes: Nature *** Daguerreotypes: Panoramas Daguerreotypes: Scientific Daguerreotypes: Still life Daguerreotypes: Multiple images Daguerreotypes: Erotica and nudes Stereo daguerreotypes Stereo daguerreotypes Coloring daguerreotypes Painted daguerreotypes Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates Patent: Wm. A. Pratt, Improvement in Colouring Daguerreotype-Pictures (1846) Framing Daguerreotype frames Daguerreotypes with painted glass passe-partouts Photo-jewelry Daguerreotype photo-jewelry Printing Printing from daguerreotype plates Encounters with artists The encounters between the London Daguerreotypist John Jabez Mayall and the artist John Turner (1847-1849) Photographers Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Daguerreotype plates Joseph Saxton: Philadelphia Central High School for Boys and Pennsylvania State Arsenal Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann: Portraits Alexander Doussin Dubreuil: Ireland: The Repeal Martyrs (1842-1845) Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard: Daguerreotype portraits *** Hermann Carl Eduard Biewend: Daguerreotype portraits *** Carl Ferdinand Stelzner: Daguerreotype portraits Lorenzo G. Chase: Anthropological studies Robert Cornelius: Daguerreotype portraits Henry Fitz Jr.: Daguerreotype portraits *** Marcus Aurelius Root: Daguerreotype portraits *** Mathew B. Brady: Daguerreotype portraits *** Charles DeForest Fredricks: Daguerreotype portraits *** W. & F. Langenheim: Daguerreotype portraits Jeremiah Gurney: Daguerreotype portraits *** Samuel Broadbent: Daguerreotype portraits Southworth and Hawes: Daguerreotype portraits Rufus P. Anson: Daguerreotype portraits *** Thomas Easterly: Daguerreotypes Jules Itier: China Samuel A. Bemis: The White Mountains of New Hampshire Fontayne & Porter: The Cincinnati Panorama *** George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) Trutpert Schneider & Sons: Storage box for ten stereo daguerreotypes of palace interiors [Possibly Bavaria or Russia] (ca 1860) *** Poetry Photographic Phenomena, or the new school of portrait painting (1842) Marketing Marketing: Business cards of Daguerreotypists Advertising for Daguerreotypists Meade daguerreotype case a portrait of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre *** Marketing: Cased photographs Copying daguerreotypes Copying photographs and copyists: Queen Victoria Presiding at the Reopening of the Reconstructed Crystal Palace at Sydenham (Daguerreotype - Albumen print) Copying photographs and copyists: Portraits of Anne L. Gilles (Daguerreotype - Cabinet card) *** Copying photographs and copyists: Portraits of an old woman (Daguerreotype - Tintype) ***
Dry-plate photographyPackaging and marketing Packaging for dry plates Dry plates *** Proof of quality Instantaneous photography - The exploding mule (6 June 1881) Photographers Victor Angerer: Instantaneous photography on the street (1888)
Fresson printsIntroduction Fresson prints ***
Gelatin silver printsThe process The Gelatin Silver Print Themes Gelatin silver prints: Abstract Gelatin silver prints: Advertising Gelatin silver prints: Architecture Gelatin silver prints: Documentary Gelatin silver prints: Erotica and the nude Gelatin silver prints: Experimental and manipulated photography Gelatin silver prints: Fashion *** Gelatin silver prints: Landscape Gelatin silver prints: Photojournalism Gelatin silver prints: Events Gelatin silver prints: Photomontage Gelatin silver prints: Portrait Gelatin silver prints: Actors Gelatin silver prints: Themes: Portrait: Occupationals *** Gelatin silver prints: Science Gelatin silver prints: Objects Gelatin silver prints: Still life *** Gelatin silver prints: Street *** Gelatin silver prints: War Gelatin silver prints: Strange *** Gelatin silver prints: Photographica Techniques and manipulations Gelatin silver prints: Multiple exposures Photographic test strips Painted gelatin silver prints *** Gelatin silver prints: Sepia-toned Press photographs with paint or instructions
Hand-painted photographsIntroduction Introduction to hand-painted photographs Examples of painted photographs Painted daguerreotypes Painted salt prints Painted ambrotypes Painted albumen prints Owen Angel: Follett Family Album of Children Costumed for a Fancy Dress Ball (ca 1860) *** Louise Lafton (photographer) / Alexis Godillot (manufacturer): Album Photographique des Uniformes de L'Armées Françaises (1866) *** Painted cartes de visite Cabinet cards: Painted Painted stereoviews Bi-colored stereoviews Painted tintypes Painted gelatin silver prints *** Painted postcards *** Painting daguerreotypes Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates Patent: Wm. A. Pratt, Improvement in Colouring Daguerreotype-Pictures (1846) Colouring kits Nineteenth century photograph colouring kits Retouching and painting desks Artists and colorists at work Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong Regional styles Hand-coloured photographs from the Indian sub-continent Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China Contemporary photographers Saul Leiter: Painted nudes Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc Colourising the past Colourising the past
Imprimerie photographique Blanquart-EvrardExamples Blanquart-Evrard process prints *** Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: reproductions of works of art Photographers Maxime du Camp: Egypt John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem
Infrared photographyIntroduction Black and white infrared photography *** Colour infrared photography *** Photographers Weegee: Infrared photography
Iphone applicationsPhotography galleries iPhone application: Fraenkel Gallery (2010) *** iPhone application: Verve Gallery (2010) *** Photojournalism iPhone news applications ***
Ivorytypes and American IvorytypesExamples Ivorytypes and American Ivorytypes *** The American Ivorytype / Toovytype The American Ivorytype (1864) The Toovytype: or: Ivorytype
Kirlian photographyIntroduction Kirlian photography
Lantern slidesIntroduction Magic lantern slides Types of lantern slides Mechanical magic lantern slides Phantasmagoria Examples Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt Frederick York: Lantern slides: London Zoological Gardens (1870) *** Bamforth & Co.: The Quarryman's Resolve (1900) Magic lantern slides from Japan Lantern slides of Uganda (ca. 1890s) *** Lantern slides of Ellis Island (New York) Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment
Magic lanternsIntroduction History of the magic lantern Magic lanterns Shows Magic lantern shows and showmen Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Magic lantern slides Magic lantern slides Mechanical magic lantern slides Phantasmagoria
NegativesIntroduction Introduction to negatives Manipulating negatives Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Paper negatives, waxed paper negatives, calotypes Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia: Negatives Hill & Adamson: A tree at Colinston [Midlothian, Scotland] Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Crystal Palace, Hyde Park *** Alphonse De Launay: Negative and positive glass plates *** Gustave Le Gray: Combination prints Wilhelm Weimar (1857–1917, Hamburg): Glass negatives *** Celluloid roll film Roll film
OrotonesIntroduction Introduction to the orotone Photographers Edward S. Curtis: Orotones Variants A variant form - Orotypes
Paget platesPackaging Paget plates: Packaging *** Photographers Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the First World War
Painting on photographsIntroduction Introduction to painting on photographs The Remuneration of Art in America. Crayon Photographs (1882) Colouring kits and patents Nineteenth century photograph colouring kits Patents for colouring photographs Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses Examples of painted photographs Painted daguerreotypes Painted salt prints Painted ambrotypes Painted albumen prints Painted cartes de visite Cabinet cards: Painted Painted stereoviews Bi-colored stereoviews Painted tintypes Painted gelatin silver prints *** Examples of toned photographs Gelatin silver prints: Sepia-toned Regional styles Hand-coloured photographs from the Indian sub-continent Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China Colourists, retouchers and artists Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong Painted photographs by known artists Painted photographs by known artists Louis Pierson: Painted portraits of the Countess of Castiglione Photojournalism and painting on photographs Press photographs with paint or instructions Contemporary photographer / artists Peter Beard: Mixed-media collages and collaborative works
PanoramasIntroduction Introduction to panoramas Different photographic formats Daguerreotypes: Panoramas Salt prints: Panoramas Albumen prints: Panoramas Photographers Fontayne & Porter: The Cincinnati Panorama *** George N. Barnard: Panoramas *** George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons *** Cities Panorama of Moscow (before 1868) Military panoramas Allied intelligence panoramas taken during the First World War (1914-1918)
Paper and waxed paper negativesIntroduction Early paper prints and their confusing terminology Examples Paper and waxed paper negatives Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Paper negatives, waxed paper negatives, calotypes Henri Le Secq: Paper and waxed paper negatives John Shaw Smith: Calotypes Charles Nègre: Paper and waxed paper negatives *** Fortune-Joseph Petiot-Groffier: Waxed paper negatives *** Count Camille Bernard Baillieu d'Avrincourt: Waxed paper negatives (ca 1855) François Joseph Edouard de Campigneules: Egypt (1858) John Shaw Smith: Calotypes John Murray: Paper negatives and waxed paper negatives
Photogenic drawingsIntroduction Early paper prints and their confusing terminology Examples Examples of photogenic drawings *** Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Photogenic drawings *** Henry Fox Talbot: Photogenic engravings *** Henry Fox Talbot: The Bertoloni Album Johann Carl Enslen: Photogenic drawings ***
Platinum printsInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques The process The Platinum Print Platinum prints: Examples *** Photographers Frederick H. Evans: Platinum prints *** William B. Post: Platinum prints *** William B. Dyer: Platinum prints *** Thomas Eakins: Platinum prints *** Peter Henry Emerson: Platinum prints *** Gertrude Käsebier: Platinum prints *** Frank Rinehart: Platinum prints *** Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Platinum prints *** F. Holland Day: Platinum prints *** Paul Martin: Platinum prints *** Frederick Hollyer: Platinum prints *** Paul Outerbridge: Platinum prints *** George Henry Seeley: Platinum prints *** Paul Strand: Platinum prints *** Guido Rey: Platinum prints *** Paul Burty Haviland: Platinum prints *** Gustave Marissiaux: Platinum prints *** Imogen Cunningham: Platinum prints *** Karl F. Struss: Platinum prints *** Herb Ritts: Platinum prints ***
PolaroidsInformation requests Improving content on photographic techniques Examples Polaroids Experimental and manipulated Polaroids *** Photographers William Wegman: Polaroids *** Laurie Minor: Altered Polaroid SX-70 prints *** Lucas Samaras: Unpentant Ego / Photo-transformations Cassio Vasconcellos: Inkjet prints based on scanned Polaroid SX-70 prints *** Xavier Damon: Polaroids *** Tim Mantoani: Polaroids of photographers *** David Levinthal: Polaroid polacolor ER land film prints *** Barbara Kasten: Polaroid polacolor prints Fred Beckman: Polaroid prints *** Jack Welpott: Polaroid prints *** Olivia Parker: Polaroid prints *** Carlo Mollino: Polaroid prints *** Robert Gardner: Borroro male beauty - SX-70 prints *** Bruce Charlesworth: Polaroid SX-70 prints with acrylic and collage *** Ken Elliott: Polaroid Transfer prints with manipulations *** Julie Moos: Polaroid portraits *** Ellen Carey: Pulls
Salt printsIntroduction Early paper prints and their confusing terminology Examples Painted salt prints Blanquart-Evrard process prints *** Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: reproductions of works of art Salt prints: Stereo *** Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: The Pencil of Nature (1844-1846) Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) Henry Fox Talbot: The Bertoloni Album Henry Fox Talbot: Paper negatives, waxed paper negatives, calotypes Hill & Adamson: Portraits Hill & Adamson: Scottish presbyterians *** Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843) Hill & Adamson: Newhaven Hill & Adamson: A Series of Calotype Views - St. Andrews (1846) Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) John Stewart: Pyrenees (1850s) Vicomte Joseph Vigier: Pyrenees Edmond Bacot: Christian architecture in France *** Pompeo Bondini: Italy *** Roger Fenton: Russia (1852) George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) Louis-Camille d'Olivier: Nudes *** Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 (1852) Themes Salt prints: Backgrounds *** Salt prints: Exteriors Salt prints: Portraits Salt prints: Occupations and roles Salt prints: Military *** Salt prints: Landscapes *** Salt prints: Scientific *** Salt prints: Panoramas Salt prints: Still life Salt prints: Objects Salt prints: Events The fading of salt prints Photographic Society of London: Fading Committee (1855)
Scanning electron microscopeIntroduction Scanning electron microscope *** Photographers Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocardsIntroduction Introduction to stereoviews Different types of stereo images Understanding stereovision The process of making card-based stereoviews Stereo daguerreotypes Antoine Claudet: Stereo Daguerreotypes Stereo ambrotypes Stereo tintypes Stereo cyanotypes Introduction to French tissues / tissue views Stereographs, Quadra views Colour Stereoviews: Colour Themes - Painted Painted stereoviews Bi-colored stereoviews Themes - Events Stereoviews: Events Themes - Diablerie Stereoviews: Diableries Themes - Dreams and visions Dreams and visions Humour Stereocards: Humour Themes - Erotica Stereoviews: Erotica *** Themes - Nature Stereoviews: Nature Frank Haes: Stereocards of London Zoo (ca. 1865) *** Themes - Places Stereoviews: Places and locations Stereoviews: Themes: Landscape types - Cityscapes - Urban Themes - Photography-related Stereoviews: Photographic studios Stereoviews: Photographic vans, wagons and cars Stereoviews: Photographica Themes - Portrait Stereoviews: Portraits: Celebrities Stereoviews: Portraits: Actors Stereoviews: Military *** Stereoviews: Ethnic Stereoviews: Native Americans Themes - Scientific Stereoviews: Scientific Clough & Kimball (Concord, N.H.): Views taken on The Summit of Mt. Washington during The Winter of 1870-71 Edinburgh University Stereoscopic Anatomy Series: The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy by Waterston and Burnet, a set of stereoscopic slides mounted on explanatory cards (1905 or later) *** Furne fils & Tournier: Épreuve a Mouvement (Metamorphic stereoviews) Dr. Max Cohn (author): Atlas der Röntgenstereoskopie (ca 1920) *** Themes - Advertising Stereoviews: Advertising Themes - Still life Stereoviews: Still life Themes - Transportation Stereoviews: Transportation *** John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866) *** Themes - War Unidentified photographer: La Crimée [Models of significant locations during the Crimean War] *** Stereocard series on the American Civil War Stereoview series of the First World War Reuse of miltary stereoviews Examples of sets of stereocards Elias A. Bonine: Stereocards: Florida Series *** Pierre Joseph Rossier: China (1859) Edward Anthony: The Fulton St. Prayer Meeting, set of 12 views (1857) *** James Chapman: Chapman Expedition in South Africa (1862-1864) Edward L. Wilson: Scenes in the Orient Karl Wessely: Eye conditions and injuries (1931) Charles H. Shute & Son (Edgartown, Mass.): Stereoscopic Views of a Whaling Voyage Books illustrated with stereoviews Introduction to books illustrated with stereoviews Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer’s Experiment (1857) Linnaeus Tripe: Stereographs of Madura...with descriptions by the Rev. W. Tracy, M.A. (1858) John Mounteney Jephson: Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany (1859) *** Roger Fenton: The Conway in the Stereoscope (1860) William Despard Hemphill: The Abbeys, Castles, and Scenery of Clonmel and the Surrounding Countryside (1860) Francis Frith: Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia, Illustrated with One Hundred Stereoscopic Photographs (1862) Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864) *** George M. Mowbray [stereoviews by H.D. Ward]: Tri-Nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel Submarine Blasting, Etc. (1872) Edward Bierstadt: Gems of American Scenery, consisting of Stereoscopic Views among the White Mountains (1878) H.P. Smith; Judd & McLeish (photographers), 1878, Syracuse and Its Surrounding (1878) *** T.C. Porter: Impressions of America (1899) Magazines illustrated with stereoviews The Stereoscopic Magazine (1858) *** Manufacture and packaging of stereoviews Interior of Stereographic workshops H.C. White Manfacturing Plant for Stereoscopes and StereoViews - North Bennington, Vermont, USA *** H.C. White: The manufacture of stereoscopes and views *** Poor quality control with stereocards Packaging for stereoviews Pirated stereoviews Pirated stereoviews Stereocards marketing and salesrooms Marketing stereocards *** Stereoviews: Lists of views (Backlists) Keystone View Company: Maps and Plans Accompanying Palestine Through the Stereoscope (1900) Underwood & Underwood: James Henry Breasted - Egypt Through the Stereoscope *** Salesrooms for stereoviews Stereocard storage for home and education Stereoview libraries for the armchair traveler Circulating libraries Stereoviews: Circulating Libraries Clubs The Stereoscopic Society: Envelopes with comments from "The Stereoscopic Society" postal reviewing club (ca 1950s) *** Cameras Stereoview cameras ***
TintypesHistory E.P. Griswold: The History of the Ferrotype (1889) Examples Tintypes: Examples Painted tintypes Gem tintypes Gem tintypes Tin Type Album: Little gem tintypes Tintypes in non-paper based objects Tintypes in non-paper objects Instructions A.K.P. Trask: Trask's Practical Ferrotyper (1872) Advice for tintype portraiture Tintype: Hints for dress Plates Tintypes: Plates *** Neff plates Packaging Packaging for tintypes *** Stereo tintypes Stereo tintypes Cameras Tintype cameras *** Preservers Ferotype preservers *** Tintype preservers Sleeves and mounts Paper sleeves and card mounts for tintypes Themes Tintypes: Portraits Tintypes: Military Tintypes: Ethnic: Native Americans Tintypes: Occupationals Tintypes: Leisure *** Tintypes: Exteriors Tintypes: Objects *** Tintypes: Multiple exposures Tintypes: Photographers *** Tintypes: Photographic studios Tintypes: Backgrounds and foregrounds Tintypes: Photographica American Civil War (1861-1865) Reasons for the popularity of the tintype during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Bon Tons Bon Tons: Advertising *** W.H. Pearce: The Forest Home & Algonquin Bon Ton Tent Contemporary tintypes Contemporary tintypes
Wet-plate photographyVideo resources The Collodion Process Introduction The wet plate collodion process Wet-plate photography Panotypes / Pannotypes Original publication Frederick Scott Archer: On The Use of Collodion in Photography (March 1851) Supplies Collodion *** William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869) Photographers at work Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places Wet-plate photographers at work *** Mr James Mudd encounters a photographic van in Wales (1860) Dark tents and dark boxes Dark tents and dark boxes *** Photographs of dark tents, dark boxes and photographers in the field Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents
The business of photography | The business of photographyIntroduction The business of photography
EquipmentIntroduction Introduction to equipment Daguerreotype equipment Daguerreotype cameras Daguerreotype equipment Daguerreotype apparatus (1843) Daguerreotype apparatus (1853) Printing frames Printing and enlarging frames Retouching and painting desks Retouching and painting desks Dark tents and dark boxes Dark tents and dark boxes *** Watch the Birdie Watch-the-birdie
Camera stands and tripodsIntroduction Camera stands and tripods
CamerasIntroduction Historical changes in the size of cameras Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital Types of cameras Daguerreotype cameras Stereoscopic cameras Tintype cameras *** Cartes de visite cameras *** American Civil War (1861-1865): Cameras Mathew Brady: Camera Props, accessories and novelties: Cameras *** Detective and vest cameras Snapshot cameras The Kodak Camera *** Early Kodak camera formats Camera developments and street photography Camera transit made by Fairchild (ca. 1946) *** Camera phones *** iPhone applications *** Photographers George R. Lawrence: The Largest Photograph in the World of the Handsomest Train in the World (ca 1900) ***
Pinhole camerasIntroduction Introduction to pinhole photography Photographers George Davison: Pinhole photographs Ansel Adams: Hills Brothers Coffee Can Fabricated Cameras and Contemporary Pinhole Photography *** Projects The Trashcam Project - Hamburg, Germany (2012) Pinhole Journal PInhole Journal
Plastic camerasPhotographers Teru Kuwayama: Photojournalism with a Holga
Dark tents and dark boxesIntroduction Introduction to dark tents and dark boxes Examples Dark tents and dark boxes *** Photographs of dark tents, dark boxes and photographers in the field A surviving example of a dark tent Contemporary accounts Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents Sources on nineteenth century dark tents and dark boxes Photographers using dark tents and dark boxes Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places Francis Frith at the Temple of Dendara, Egypt Jackson Brothers (Omaha, Nebraska): Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad - #192 Dale Creek Bridge John Burke: Fixing the Negative Contemporary dark tents and dark boxes
Magnesium lightIntroduction Equipment for magnesium light Magnesium light in use *** Early accounts Using magnesium light for photographic purposes (1864) Magnesium and the Magnesium Light (1868) Photographs taken with magnesium light *** Photographers Charles Waldack, Proctor & O'Shaughnessy: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (1866) Mandeville Thum: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (ca 1876-1877) *** Ben Hains: Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity (1889) J.C. Burrow: Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground scenes by flash-light (1893) Charles Piazzi Smyth: The Great Pyramid and the use of magnesium light (1865) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Use of magnesium light at the Great Pyramid (1865) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Photography, Magnesium, and the Pyramid (1865) Charles Piazzi Smyth: As soon as it was discovered that photography was possible by magnesium... (1865)
Retouching, colouring and painting kitsPainting Introduction to painting on photographs Nineteenth century photograph colouring kits Retouching Introduction to retouching Retouching and painting desks Photographers Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong
Solar enlargersIntroduction Solar Enlargers Examples Prints created using solar enlargers
Guidelines, manuals and instructionsIntroduction Introduction to guidelines, manuals and instructions Daguerreotypes Daguerreotype manuals and instructions Tintypes A.K.P. Trask: Trask's Practical Ferrotyper (1872)
LegalObscenity Obscenity
CopyrightIntroduction Introduction to copyright and piracy Copyright law in Great Britain - 1860 (Turner vs Robinson) The Death of Chatterton Copyright law in USA - 1880s (Sarony vs. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co) Copyright law in USA - 1884 (Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. vs. Sarony) *** Copyright law in Great Britain - 1888 (Messrs. Braun and Co. vs. A.E. Whitehouse) International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (17 August 1888) International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (24 August 1888) International Copyright of Photographs - Judgement - Messrs. Braun and Co. (21 September 1888)
PatentsIntroduction Patents Examples of photography-related patents John Arrowsmith's Diorama, or Method of Exhibiting Pictures - British Patent No. 4899, 10 February 1824 Patenting of M. Daguerre's Process in England (2 November 1839) Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates Harding's Patent Photograph Album *** Patent illustrations François Willème: Photosculpture Patents for photographic backgrounds and foregrounds Photobooth designs
Manufacture of photography-related itemsIntroduction Introduction to the manufacture of photography-related items Scovill Mfg. Co. *** Albumen paper The manufacture of albumen paper *** Card stock Introduction to card stock Manufacture of stereoscopes and stereocards Interior of Stereographic workshops H.C. White Manfacturing Plant for Stereoscopes and StereoViews - North Bennington, Vermont, USA *** H.C. White: The manufacture of stereoscopes and views ***
MarketingIntroduction to marketing Introduction to marketing Marketing techniques Photographs of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Illustrations of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Marketing: Signage and banners Richard Beard: Trade card Marketing: Cased photographs Marketing: Banknotes and premiums Handbills, broadsides and paper-based promotional material Marketing: Business cards of Daguerreotypists Marketing: Business cards Marketing: Business stationery Cartes de visite: Advertising for photographers Marketing: Studio daybooks, sitters' books, sample books and sample boards Marketing: Commercial catalogues Marketing: Advertisements in newspapers *** Marketing: Advertisements in publications *** Marketing: In the popular press *** Marketing: Trade directories *** Marketing: Photographic publications *** Marketing: Photographer and studio labels Marketing: Puzzles *** Marketing: Stamps Marketing: Signatures and studio marks I.W. Taber: Contemporary account of meeting the photographer in San Francisco Marketing: Touting for business Marketing: En plein air *** Marketing: Photographing celebrities *** Marketing: Associations with royalty Marketing: Posters Marketing: Showcasing photographs Cartes de visite: Proof stamps and proof copies Marketing for photographic studios Mathew B. Brady: Brady's Daguerrean Gallery *** Jeremiah Gurney: J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery Mr. Pratt's Gallery at Richmond, VA - Coloring Daguerreotypes (1851) Jeremiah Gurney: Premiums *** Distribution channels Introduction to distribution channels Labels and stamps of distributors including print and book sellers Nineteenth century book and print sellers Companies selling reproductions of works of art in the nineteenth century Companies providing photographic reproductions of art in the nineteenth century Socializing Camera clubs and get-togethers of photographers *** Auctions Introduction to auctions Contemporary marketing Evites iPhone applications *** iPad applications ***
Advertising in newspapersExamples Advertising for Daguerreotypists Marketing: Advertisements in newspapers *** Photographers George S. Cook: Advertisements ***
Advertising in publicationsAdvertising in publications Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers Marketing: Advertisements in publications ***
Awards and medalsIntroduction Awards at photographic exhibitions and competitions Backmarks showing medals and awards Cartes de visite: Backs: Awards Cabinet cards: Backs: Awards
BackmarksIntroduction Introduction to backmarks Introduction to the backmarks of cartes de visite Introduction to the backmarks on cabinet cards Stereographs, Introduction to the backmarks on stereographs Awards Cartes de visite: Backs: Awards Cabinet cards: Backs: Awards Miscellaneous Cartes de visite: Backs: Additional products Cartes de visite: Backs: Change of business ownership Cartes de visite: Backs: Catalogue pages Cartes de visite: Backs: Diverse occupations Cartes de visite: Backs: Landscapes *** Cartes de visite: Backs: Product promotion *** Women photographers Cartes de visite: Backs: Women photographers Photography and the arts Cartes de visite: Backs: Graphics that place photography with the arts Cabinet cards: Backs: Graphics that place photography with the arts Motifs Cartes de visite: Backs: Strap and buckle Cartes de visite: Backs: Egyptian motifs Cartes de visite: Backs: Shared graphic motifs Cabinet cards: Backs: Shared graphic motifs Photographic studios Cartes de visite: Backs: Photographic studios Cabinet cards: Backs: Photographic studios Cartes de visite: Backs: Photograph cars *** Missing studio details Cartes de visite: Backs: Missing studio details *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Missing studio details *** Royal patronage Cartes de visite: Backs: Royal patronage Cabinet cards: Backs: Royal patronage Services Cartes de visite: Backs: Elevator available Cartes de visite: Backs: Negatives preserved, copies made and enlargements Cartes de visite: Backs: Teaching available *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Electric light *** Whimsy Cartes de visite: Backs: Whimsy *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Whimsy ***
Banknotes, premiums and tokensPremiums Marketing: Banknotes and premiums Counter-stamped coins and tokens ***
Business and trade cardsBusiness cards Marketing: Business cards of Daguerreotypists Marketing: Business cards
Business stationeryIntroduction Marketing: Business stationery Examples A.C. Kline: Jeff Davis "taking" Washington Cabinet card mailers and envelopes ***
CasesCases Marketing: Cased photographs Patent Model of a Mold for Making "Oreo" Daguerreotype Cases (1862 patent) ***
Commercial cataloguesCatalogues Marketing: Commercial catalogues Photographic studios Thomas Houseworth: Houseworth's Celebrities
En plein airIntroduction Marketing: En plein air ***
Exhibitions and competitionsIntroduction Philip Henry Delamotte: The Crystal Palace (1854-1855) Posters for photographic exhibitions and competitions *** French photographic competitions during the First World War (1914-1918) Labels on photographs at photographic exhibitions and competitions *** Photographic passes for international exhibitions Room and wall hangings for photographic exhibitions Thomas Smillie: Installation views of an exhibition of photography *** National Museum of History and Technology: Hall of Photography (1973) *** Awards Awards at photographic exhibitions and competitions Cartes de visite: Backs: Awards Cabinet cards: Backs: Awards Exhibitions Seminal exhibitions reGeneration Connections between art and photography Exhibitions on the relationships between art and photography
Handbills and broadsidesIntroduction Handbills, broadsides and paper-based promotional material
Photographer, studio and distribution labelsIntroduction Introduction to labels Labels Labels for Daguerreotypists Marketing: Photographer and studio labels Labels and stamps of distributors including print and book sellers
Photographic publicationsIntroduction Marketing: Photographic publications *** Magazines The Far East (1870-1878)
Photographing celebritiesIntroduction Daguerreotypes: Celebrities Jenny Lind (1820-1887) Thomas Houseworth: Houseworth's Celebrities Cartes de visite: Celebrities Giuseppe Garibaldi Cabinet cards: Celebrities Marketing: Photographing celebrities *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Royal patronage
Popular pressIntroduction Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers Marketing: In the popular press *** Marketing: Chase's Daguerreotype Rooms, Boston (1846) Marketing: John A. Whipple, 96 Washington St., Boston (1848) Marketing: J.V.R. Schuyler, Ithaca, NY (1853) Marketing: Root's Daguerrean Gallery (1853)
PostersIntroduction Marketing: Posters
Sample books and sample boardsIntroduction Marketing: Studio daybooks, sitters' books, sample books and sample boards Photographers Malick Sidibe: Catalogues *** Underwood & Underwood: Photographs of the homes and haunts of prominent Mormons in Illinois, Missouri and Utah, and of Salt Lake City and Saltair views. (1903-1911) *** Rufus Morgan: Illustrated Catalogue of Southern Scenery (ca 1869-1878) Elliot & Fry: Sample book ***
Showcasing photographsShowcasing photographs Marketing: Showcasing photographs
Signage and bannersIntroduction Marketing: Signage and banners
StampsExamples Marketing: Stamps Types Wet stamps Blind and embossed stamps Purpose Stamps: Studio Stamps: Distribution *** Stamps: Estate Photographers and their stamps Brassaï: Wet stamps *** Elliott Erwitt: Wet stamps *** Martin Munkácsi: Wet stamps *** Magnum wet stamps Robert Capa: Magnum wet stamps *** Henri Cartier-Bresson: Magnum wet stamps *** Case studies Views of Rome taken by Adriano de Bonis signed by Achille Quinet
Studio marks in negativeExamples Marketing: Signatures and studio marks
Touting for businessIntroduction Marketing: Touting for business Examples I.W. Taber: Contemporary account of meeting the photographer in San Francisco John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong
Trade directoriesIntroduction Marketing: Trade directories *** Examples Daguerreotypes and hats I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880)
Mobile studiosIntroduction Introduction to mobile studios Contemporary accounts Avery's Portable Daguerreotype Saloon (1847) Contemporary account of itinerant photographers in America (1856) Photographic vans Photographs of photographic vans Contemporary sources on photographic vans *** Roger Fenton: The artist's van Railroad photographic cars Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains Backmarks for railroad photograph cars J.B. Silvis: Photograph car Studios on barges and boats Studios on boats and barges Tent studios Studios in tents Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works Beach photographers Beach photographers
Photographic vans, wagons and carsExamples of Photographic vans, wagons and cars Photographs of photographic vans War Roger Fenton: The artist's van Photographer teams and photographic vans during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Expeditions and surveys Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. Contemporary accounts Avery's Portable Daguerreotype Saloon (1847) Contemporary account of itinerant photographers in America (1856) Contemporary sources on photographic vans *** Mr James Mudd encounters a photographic van in Wales (1860) A photographic van or a house on wheels (1875)
Railroad photograph cars and studios on trainsIntroduction Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains Backmarks Backmarks for railroad photograph cars Photographers J.B. Silvis: Photograph car Contemporary accounts Swain & Mote and their photograph car (1871) J.B. Silvis provides the services of his photographic car to assist the photographing of a solar eclipse (1878) Boston Photo Car Company: Indignant Dads. They Take Issue With the Boston Photo Car on a Question of Propriety (may 1893)
Studios on boats and bargesStudios on boats and barges Studios on boats and barges
TentsExamples Studios in tents Photographers Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
PackagingIntroduction Introduction to packaging Packaging for different kinds of photographs Packaging for daguerreotypes Packaging for stereoviews Packaging for tintypes *** Carte de visite mailers *** Cartes de visite boxes, cases, wallets and envelopes Cabinet card mailers and envelopes *** Packaging for dry plates Kodak Film *** Packaging for autochromes *** Packaging for colour plates and film ***
Photographic studiosSelection of studio location Selection of studio location Achitectural designs Architectural designs for studios Exteriors Photographs of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Illustrations of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Photographs of exteriors of twentieth century photographic shops and studios Ordnance Survey Building, Southampton Printing and enlarging frames Interiors Photographs of the interiors of photographic shops and studios Illustrations of the interiors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Cabinet cards: Backs: Photographic studios Features Features of photographic studios: Signage *** Features of photographic studios: Skylights Features of photographic studios: Windows *** Features of photographic studios: Showrooms *** Features of photographic studios: Darkrooms Studio stamps Stamps: Studio Blind and embossed stamps Visiting photographic studies Portrait factory on Broadway, New York Visit to Plumbe's Gallery, New York (1846) Accidents in photographic studios Fires in photographic studios Poisonings due to availability of photographic chemicals Twentieth century studios and shops Photographic studios and shops ***
Exteriors of photographic studiosExamples Photographs of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Illustrations of the exteriors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Photographs of exteriors of twentieth century photographic shops and studios Studios using different processes Ambrotypes: Photographic studios *** Printing and enlarging frames Printing and enlarging frames Case studies The Daguerreotype studios of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Nicolaas Henneman: The Reading Establishment - Talbot House *** Camille Silvy's photographic studio, 38 Porchester Terrace [London, GB] *** William Notman: Use of the painted exterior wall of his Montreal Studio as a background Ordnance Survey Building, Southampton
Interiors of photographic studiosThe appearance of photographic studios Photographs of the interiors of photographic shops and studios Illustrations of the interiors of nineteenth century photographic shops and studios Richard Beard: Jabez Hogg and Mr. Johnson (1843) *** Darkrooms Surviving examples of early darkrooms Backgrounds and foregrounds Backgrounds used in nineteenth century photographic studios C.M. Coolidge: US patent No. 149,724, Processes of Taking Photographic Pictures (1874) *** Electric light Use of electric lighting in studios The process of having a portrait taken Portrait factory on Broadway, New York Posing The "helping hand", "hidden mother" and "hidden father" portraits The simulation of snow and ice in portrait studios Arthur Scheiner: At the Photographer (1890)
Significant photographic studios - ExamplesStudios Mathew B. Brady: Brady's Daguerrean Gallery *** Jeremiah Gurney: J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery Mr. Pratt's Gallery at Richmond, VA - Coloring Daguerreotypes (1851) Nicolaas Henneman: The Reading Establishment - Talbot House *** Adolphe Braun - A Continental Printing Establishment (1874) Darkrooms Surviving examples of early darkrooms
Printing worksPrinting works Adolphe Braun - A Continental Printing Establishment (1874)
Publications, books, manuals, journals and magazinesIntroduction Publications using photographs as the basis for portraits Publications using photographs as the basis for engineering and science Introduction to tipped-in photographs and books illustrated with photographs Publications that did, or said they did, use daguerreotypes as the basis for their illustrations The influence of the daguerreotype upon art Paris et ses Environs Reproduits par le Daguerrotype, Sous la Direction de M. Ch. Philipon (Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, 1840) Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842) Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin: Vues de Paris (1845) *** Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844) T. Bettinger: Vues d'Algérie prises au dauguerréotype (1847) *** Bruges, ses Monuments et ses Tableaux, edited by Daveluy (Bruges, Daveluy, 1855) Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin Joseph Pedra: Photographs and illustrations of Algeria *** Early works using photolithography Henri Le Secq: Premier Cahier de lithophotographie (1853) *** Later books John Thomson: Cambodia: Angkor Thom / Angkor Wat (1866) John Thomson: China, a travelling chiropodist Examples Illustrations based on Daguerreotypes: Military Early livestock photography Early fashion photography Advertising albums I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880) Magazines A.C. Pardal & Filho: Publicação Photographica (1870-1871) Publishing companies Early publishing companies specializing in photography
Illustrated magazinesExamples Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery (1870-?) Timothy O'Sullivan: A council of war at Massaponax Church, VA (21 May 1864) Dr. A. de Montmeja: Revue Photographique des Hopitaux de Paris (1869-?) The Far East (1870-1878) Surrealism: Publications German illustrated magazines during the First World War Photojournalists in Weimar Germany AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung Vanity Fair Trends The technologies that allowed photojournalism to flourish The decline of the photo magazines Publications using Autochromes Autochromes: L'Illustration Autochromes: National Geographic Autochromes: Farbenphotographie
PhotobooksIntroduction Books about photobooks Regional selections British photobooks *** French photobooks *** German photobooks *** Dutch photobooks *** Czech photobooks *** American photobooks *** Japanese photobooks Directories of digital photobooks EphotobookList (March 2013)
Photography related magazines and journalsIntroduction Introduction to photographic magazines *** Photographic magazines France: Photography magazines and journals Germany: Photography magazines and journals Britain: Photography magazines and journals USA: Photography magazines and journals
Tipped-in photographs and books illustrated with photographsIntroduction Introduction to tipped-in photographs and books illustrated with photographs Books illustrated with salt prints Books illustrated with albumen prints Books illustrated with collotypes Books illustrated with woodburytypes 1840s Anna Atkins: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions (1843-1854) Henry Fox Talbot: The Pencil of Nature (1844-1846) Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) Hill & Adamson: A Series of Calotype Views - St. Andrews (1846) Nicolaas Henneman: Talbotypes or Sun Pictures, Taken From The Actual Objects Which They Represent (1847) William Sterling: Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) 1850s Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 (1852) Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (ca. 1854) Constantin v. Ettingshausen and A. Pokorny: Physiotypia plantarum austriacarum (1855-1856) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer’s Experiment (1857) W.H. Olley: The wonders of the microscope photographically revealed, by means of Olley's patent micro-photographic reflecting process. (1857-1861) Linnaeus Tripe: Stereographs of Madura...with descriptions by the Rev. W. Tracy, M.A. (1858) Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) John Mounteney Jephson: Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany (1859) *** 1860s Roger Fenton: The Conway in the Stereoscope (1860) William Despard Hemphill: The Abbeys, Castles, and Scenery of Clonmel and the Surrounding Countryside (1860) William Morris Grundy: Sunshine in the Country: A Book of Rural Poetry (1861) *** J.-E.-H., Bon Le Couteulx de Canteleu: La Chasse du loup, par,... avec des planches photographiées d'après nature par Crémière, Hanfstaengel et Platel (1861) *** Pierre Petit: Les figures du temps, notices biographiques / photographies de Pierre Petit… (1861) *** Balmanno Squire: A Manual of the Diseases of the Skin (1862) *** Francis Frith: Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia, Illustrated with One Hundred Stereoscopic Photographs (1862) Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862) Franck: Ces Petites Dames de Theatre (1862) *** William and Mary Howitt: Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain (1862) Andreas Groll: Die Vorzüglichsten Rüstungen und Waffen der K. K. Ambraser-Sammlung (1862) *** Francis Frith: The Holy Bible (1862-1863) William Howitt: Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland, Second Series (1864) Theophilus Smith: Wharncliffe, Wortley, and the valley of the Don (1864) *** Edward Bierstadt: Photographic Illustrations Of Skin Diseases (1864) Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864) *** Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864) *** Henry Moulton: Rays of Sunlight from South America (1865) Francis Frith: Illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hyperion (1865) Emile de La Bédollière & Ildefonse Rousset: Le tour de Marne / décrit et photographie´ par Émile de la Bédollière et Ildefonse Rousset (1865) *** Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1866) George W. Bennett: An illustrated history of British Guiana compiled from various authorities (1866) *** Eugène Charles de Gayffier: Herbier Forestier de la France (1867) Major-General Sir Henry James R.E., F.R.S.: Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland (1867) Thomas H. Dyer: The Ruins of Pompeii. A Series of Eighteen Photographic Views (1867) William Johnson & William Henderson: The Oriental races and tribes, residents and visitors of Bombay (published 1863-1866) J. Forbes Watson & John William Kaye (eds.): The People of India (1868-1872) Roger Fenton: The Works of Roger Fenton - Landscapes (Frith - Reigate) (ca 1868) *** Amateur [Edward J. Woolsey]: Specimens of fancy turning : executed on the hand or foot lathe : with geometric, oval, and eccentric chucks, and elliptical cutting frame (1869) *** J. Redding Ware: Isle of Wight (1869) *** Alexander Svoboda: The Seven Churches of Asia (1869) *** 1870s John Thomson: Views on the North River (1870) Charles O. Groom Napier: The Book of Nature and The Book of Man (1870) *** Paris Commune Album (1871) Henry W. Taunt: The River Thames (1872) Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872) George M. Mowbray [stereoviews by H.D. Ward]: Tri-Nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel Submarine Blasting, Etc. (1872) William E. Marshall: Travels amongst the todas or the study of a primitive tribe in South India, their history, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language; with outlines of the Tuda grammar (1873) *** William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873) William Notman: Our birds of prey: or, The eagles, hawks, and owls of Canada By Henry G. Vennor ... With 30 photographic illustrations by Wm. Notman (1876) *** Edward Bierstadt: Gems of American Scenery, consisting of Stereoscopic Views among the White Mountains (1878) Dr Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions (1876) William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) H.P. Smith; Judd & McLeish (photographers), 1878, Syracuse and Its Surrounding (1878) *** 1880s I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880) Paolo Mantegazza & Stephen Sommier: Studii antropologici sui Lapponi (1880) *** Herbert Boucher Dobbie: New Zealand Ferns. 148 Varieties (1880) Colonel Stuart Wortley & Lady Brassey: Tahiti, a series of photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley; with letterpress by Lady Brassey (1882) *** Thomas Byrnes: Professional Criminals of America (1886) James M. Gale: Glasgow Corporation Water Works: Photographic Views of Loch Katrine, and of Some of the Principal Works Constructed for Introducing the Water of Loch Katrine into the City of Glasgow by T. and R. Annan and Sons (1889) Ed. Heron-Allen: Violin-Making (As It Was and Is): being a Historical, Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional (1885) 1890s Robert W. Dunham: The structure of wheat shown in a series of photo-micrographs, with explanatory remarks (1892) *** James Leon Williams: The Home and Haunts of Shakespeare (1892) *** T.C. Porter: Impressions of America (1899) 1900s Lala Deen Dayal: Sorabji Jehangir - Princes and Chiefs of India (1903) *** Armchair travelers Photographically illustrated books for the armchair traveler
Tipped-in photographs and magazines and journals illustrated with photographsA hand-written journal John M. Gregory & Joel Wainwright (eds.): The Strines Journal: A Magazine of Literature, Science and Art (1850s) Introduction Introduction to tipped-in photographs in magazines and journals Examples of magazines with tipped-in illustrations Henry Fox Talbot: Photographs tipped-in to The Art Union (1 June 1846) *** The Stereoscopic Magazine (1858) *** Alexander Brodie Melville: Description of a Mystic Play, as Performed in Ladak, Zascar &c. (1865) [Tibet] *** Album of photographic portraits of August persons and persons well-known in Russia (1865) Dr. A. de Montmeja: Revue Photographique des Hopitaux de Paris (1869-?) Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery (1870-?) The Far East (1870-1878) A.C. Pardal & Filho: Publicação Photographica (1870-1871) Paris-Theatre / Paris-Portrait
Studio necessitiesIntroduction Introduction to studio necessities Backgrounds Backgrounds used in nineteenth century photographic studios Foregrounds C.M. Coolidge: US patent No. 149,724, Processes of Taking Photographic Pictures (1874) *** The moon as a symbol The simulation of snow and ice in portrait studios
Backgrounds and foregroundsIntroduction Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds Manufacturers and painters of studio backgrounds Daguerreotypists and painted studio backgrounds Studio painted backgrounds for daguerreotypes Antoine Claudet: Backgrounds for daguerreotypes Salt prints: Backgrounds *** Ambrotypes: Backgrounds *** Cartes de visite: Backgrounds and foregrounds Cabinet cards: Backgrounds and foregrounds Tintypes: Backgrounds and foregrounds Real Photo Postcards: Backgrounds and foregrounds Contemporary accounts Backgrounds Studio backgrounds How Nineteenth Century Studios used backgrounds Examples of studio backgrounds Backgrounds used in nineteenth century photographic studios Use of painted external walls as backgrounds William Notman: Use of the painted exterior wall of his Montreal Studio as a background Designs for backgrounds Backgrounds - how to paint and arrange them (1859) *** David Knights-Whittome: Photographic backgrounds Surviving photographic backgrounds Background holders and supports Background holders and supports Revolving backgrounds Revolving backgrounds Suppliers of backgrounds Advertising for manufacturers and suppliers of backgrounds Paintings showing backgrounds in photographic studios Paintings showing backgrounds in use *** Foreground and background themes Backgrounds: Transportation *** Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Carts Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Cars Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Railways Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Balloons Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Aircraft Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Space Age and missiles *** Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Boats Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Bars *** Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Prisons and prisoners *** Backgrounds: Landscapes *** Water as an element in studio backgrounds and foregrounds Patriotic and military backgrounds for portraits during the American Civil War (1861-1865) Martinique: Studio portraits *** Foregrounds Foregrounds Foregrounds: Windows Mummies and Sphinxes as foreground props Incongruous backgrounds Backgrounds: Incongruous Street photographers Backgrounds: Street photographers Case studies Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: The Biter Bit Ann Parker: Itinerant photographers of Guatemala (1970s) *** Philip K. Apagya: Aspirational backgrounds in studio portraiture Clarisse d'Arcimoles: Forget Nostalgia - A Little Theatre of Self (2012) *** Martin Parr: Autoportrait Patents for backgrounds Patents for photographic backgrounds and foregrounds C.M. Coolidge: US patent No. 149,724, Processes of Taking Photographic Pictures (1874) *** Conclusions Conclusions to backgrounds and foregrounds
PropsIntroduction Introduction to studio properties, accessories and novelties Nineteenth century Photographic Studios - Properties, accessories and novelties Marie Dahle (née Gullord, 1868-1952, Norway): Studio props from the studio of photographer Marie Dahle *** Cartes de visite: Studio prop placement Cabinet cards: Studio prop placement A contemporary thought on the properties, accessories and novelties used in 19th studios Kinds of props used in studios Props, accessories and novelties: Head rests - illustrations Props, accessories and novelties: Head rests - photographs Props, accessories and novelties: Chairs Props, accessories and novelties: Chairs - Illustrations Props, accessories and novelties: Posing chairs for children Props, accessories and novelties: Posing furniture with restraints *** Props, accessories and novelties: Tables Props, accessories and novelties: Benches Props, accessories and novelties: Curtains Props, accessories and novelties: Columns, plinths and pedestals Props, accessories and novelties: Balustrades Props, accessories and novelties: Steps and staircases Props, accessories and novelties: Rocks, boulders and stones Props, accessories and novelties: Rustic fences, gates, trees and stumps Props, accessories and novelties: Swings Props, accessories and novelties: Cameras *** Props, accessories and novelties: Toys Props, accessories and novelties: Horses Props, accessories and novelties: Elephants *** Studio flooring and coverings Watch-the-birdie Aspirations Aspirational props Conclusions Conclusions on studio props
BalustradesExamples Props, accessories and novelties: Balustrades
BenchesExamples Props, accessories and novelties: Benches
Chairs and sofasIntroduction Props, accessories and novelties: Chairs Examples Props, accessories and novelties: Chairs - Illustrations Chairs for children Props, accessories and novelties: Posing chairs for children
Columns, plinths and pedestalsExamples Props, accessories and novelties: Columns, plinths and pedestals Contemporary thoughts A contemporary thought on the properties, accessories and novelties used in 19th studios
CurtainsExamples Props, accessories and novelties: Curtains Contemporary thoughts A contemporary thought on the properties, accessories and novelties used in 19th studios
Head rests and posing standsIntroduction Introduction to head rests and posing stands Examples Props, accessories and novelties: Head rests - illustrations Props, accessories and novelties: Head rests - photographs
Rustic fences, gates, trees and stumpsExamples Props, accessories and novelties: Trees and stumps Props, accessories and novelties: Rustic fences, gates, trees and stumps
StaircasesIntroduction Steps and staircases Photographers Eugène Atget: Staircases *** Props Props, accessories and novelties: Steps and staircases
SwingsExamples Props, accessories and novelties: Swings
TablesIntroduction Props, accessories and novelties: Tables
ToysIntroduction Props, accessories and novelties: Toys Watch-the-birdie Watch-the-birdie Toys in fabricated realities Mrs. Gladys Maud Cockburn-Lange and her faked First World War dogfight photographs Laurie Simmons: Fabicated realities and the exploration of gender David Levinthal: Series Lori Nix: Accidentally Kansas
ReflectorsExamples Reflectors
Studio lightingIntroduction Introduction to studio lighting Introduction to natural light and skylights *** Glass windows, roofs and blinds Alphonse J. Liébert: Studio lighting (1878) Reflectors Reflectors Photochroms: Native Americans Artificial lighting *** Cabinet cards: Backs: Electric light ***
Supply houses and suppliesIntroduction Introduction to supply houses and supplies Daguerreotype plates Daguerreotype plates *** Preservers Preservers Tintype plates Tintypes: Plates *** Albumen paper The manufacture of albumen paper *** Card stock The card stock used for cartes de visite, cabinet cards and mounted photographs Chemicals Advertising for chemicals *** Collodion *** Dry plates Dry plates *** Roll film Magnesium light Equipment for magnesium light
ChemicalsLight-sensitive chemicals Introduction to light-sensitive materials An Account of a method of copying Paintings upon glass, and of making Profiles, by the agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver. Invented by T. WEDGWOOD, ESQ. With Observations by H. DAVY. (1802) Collodion Collodion *** Adverts for photographic chemicals Advertising for chemicals *** Manufacturing The manufacture of albumen paper *** Wet-plate necessities William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869) Poisonings with photographic chemicals Poisonings due to availability of photographic chemicals
Dry platesIntroduction Packaging for dry plates Dry plates *** Instantaneous photography - The exploding mule (6 June 1881)
AfricaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Africa Early photography in North Africa Early photography in West Africa Colonialism in Africa Expeditions within Africa James Chapman: Chapman Expedition in South Africa (1862-1864) Gustav Fritsch: Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika's: ethnographisch und anatomisch beschrieben (1872) Joseph Thomson and photography in East Africa Edouard Foà: Africa László Almásy: Expeditions in the Sahara (1930s) The liberation of Africa Photographers Pierre Tremaux: Voyage au Soudan Oriental et dans l'Afrique Septentrionale (1847-1854) Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d’Afrique (1856) Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869) William Ellis: Madagascar Désiré Charnay: Madagascar John Kirk: David Livingstone - The Zambezi Expedition (1858-1864) José Agusto da Cunha Moraes: Africa Occidental (1885) *** Luigi Naretti: Eritrea (1885-1900) Wars Anglo-Egyptian War (1882): Bombardment of Alexandria (1882) Anglo-Zanzibar War (27 August 1896) Felice Beato: Khartoum Relief Expedition (1884-1885) Boer War (1899-1902) Photojournalism Drum Portraits Malick Sidibe: Portraits Seydou Keita: Portraits from Mali Rachidi Bissiriou: Portraits taken in Dahomey / Benin Environmental issues Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust ***
AlgeriaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Algeria Daguerreotypes Unidentified Daguerreotypists: Algeria Stereoviews SIP: Algerie *** Studio portraits Studio portraits in Algeria Lazhar Mansouri: Portraits of the Amazigh, Berber, peoples of Algeria (ca 1960s) *** Photographers John Beasly Greene: Algeria Alphonse De Launay: Algeria *** Jacques Moulin: Algeria Gustave de Beaucorps: Algeria T. Bettinger: Vues d'Algérie prises au dauguerréotype (1847) *** Joseph Pedra: Photographs and illustrations of Algeria *** C. Portier: Algerian portraits *** Geiser family of photographers: Algeria Auguste Maure: Algeria Perspectives on 19th century Algeria Boys and girls - Photos d’identité - in colonial French Algeria Icons of the South - Portraits of Ouleds-Nails (Algeria 1860-1910) Colonial and post-colonial conflicts Algerian War of Independence (1950s) Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
AngolaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Angola *** Photographers José Agusto da Cunha Moraes: Africa Occidental (1885) ***
BeninPhotographers Rachidi Bissiriou: Portraits taken in Dahomey / Benin
Burkina FasoIntroduction Introduction to photography in Burkina Faso ***
CameroonIntroduction Introduction to photography in Cameroon
Central African RepublicIntroduction Introduction to photography in the Central African Republic Photographers Samuel Fosso: Self portraits
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the) Introduction to the Congo *** The Congo atrocities The Congo Atrocities
EgyptIntroduction to photography in Egypt Introduction to photography in Egypt Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Egypt Cartes de visite Cartes de visite: Egypt Photographers Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: Egypt Jules Itier: Egypt Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia: Negatives Louis de Clercq: Egypt Maxime du Camp: Egypt John Shaw Smith: Archaeological sites of Egypt (1851-1852) *** John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) Robert Murray: Egypt *** François Joseph Edouard de Campigneules: Egypt (1858) Antonio Beato: Egypt Henry Cammas: Egypt (taken 1859-1860) Francis Frith: Books on Egypt, Sinai and Palestine Francis Frith: Egypt Francis Frith: Stereoviews: Egypt, Nubia and the Middle East Francis Frith: Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia, Illustrated with One Hundred Stereoscopic Photographs (1862) Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Egypt (1862) C.G. Fountaine: Photographic views taken in Egypt and Greece by C. G. Fontaine (1862) *** Gustave Le Gray: Egypt W. Hammerschmidt: Egypt: Archaeological sites G. Lékégian: Egypt: Archaeological sites *** Hippolyte Arnoux: Egypt: Archaeological sites *** Zangaki Brothers: Egypt: Archaeological sites *** P. Dittrich: Egypt: Archaeological sites *** William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) H. Béchard: The Pyramids Pascal Sebah: Egypt: The Pyramids and the Sphinx Abdullah frères: Egypt Strohmeyer & Wyman: Egypt *** Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt Photographing in Egypt W.M. Flinders Petrie (1881-1891) The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) Charles Jacquin (French): Autochromes of Egyptian archaeological sites (ca 1912) *** Cities - Cairo Egypt: Cairo Pascal Sebah: Cairo Francis Frith: Cairo W. Hammerschmidt: Cairo *** Zangaki Brothers: Cairo *** Félix Bonfils: Egypt: Cairo *** H. Béchard: Cairo: Streets Cities - Alexandria Egypt: Alexandria Hotels Egypt: Shepheard's Hotel / Hotel Shepherd Travel guides and photography Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Cairo Underwood & Underwood: James Henry Breasted - Egypt Through the Stereoscope *** Diaries Clara Whitcomb`s diary: Egypt and the Levant (1898-1899) The Nile Egypt: The Nile Egypt: First and Second Cataracts of the Nile Archaeological sites in Egypt Egypt: Alexandria: Column of Pompey *** Egypt: Cairo: Cemeteries and tombs of the Mamalukes Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids Egypt: The Sphinx Egypt: Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser), Sakkarah (Saqqara) Egypt: The Pyramids of Dahshoor (now Dahshur or Dashur) Egypt: Beni Hasan *** Egypt: Abydos *** Egypt: Dendara Egypt: Colossi of Memnon Egypt: Thebes Egypt: Thebes: Medinet Habu - Medinet Haboo (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III) Egypt: Valley of the Kings Egypt: Luxor Egypt: Karnak Egypt: Esna *** Egypt: Edfou Egypt: Kom Ombo Egypt: Philae Egypt: Temple of Dendur (Dendoor) Egypt: Abu Simbel Egypt: Wadi Saboea [Wadi es-Sebua] *** Archaeological finds in Egypt Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti Emil Brugsch: La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari Délié & Béchard: Album du Musée Boulaq Egypt: Cleopatra's Needle Portraits Egyptians Studio portraits in Egypt *** Mummies and Sphinxes as foreground props Schier & Schoefft: Folk types in Egypt (ca. 1866-1868) *** Naya & Schoefft: Pictoresque Cairo / Le Caire pittoresque - Portraits (ca. 1875) G. Lekegian: Portraits Hippolyte Arnoux: Egypt: Portraits Hippolyte Délié: Portraits W. Hammerschmidt: Portraits Emile Bechard: Portraits Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) Anglo-Egyptian War (1882): Bombardment of Alexandria (1882) *** Suez Canal (1869 onwards) Suez Canal (1859-1869) Snapshots Early snapshots taken in Egypt Christian architecture Egypt: Saint Catherine's Monastery *** Islamic architecture Egypt: Cairo Photographers Van Leo: An Armenian Photographer in Cairo Arab and Iranian contemporary photography Introduction to Arab and Iranian contemporary photography Issues in the representation of the Arab World
The Pyramids and the SphinxThe Pyramids and the Sphinx Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids Egypt: The Sphinx Photographers Francis Frith: Egypt: The Pyramids and the Sphinx *** H. Béchard: The Pyramids Pascal Sebah: Egypt: The Pyramids and the Sphinx Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt Charles Piazzi Smyth: Use of magnesium light at the Great Pyramid (1865)
EritreaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Eritrea Italian colonialism Luigi Naretti: Eritrea (1885-1900)
EthiopiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Ethiopia People Dejatch Alamayou
Gabon Introduction to photography in Gabon ***
GhanaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Ghana Studio portraiture James Barnor: Studio portraits *** Contemporary photographes Philip K. Apagya: Aspirational backgrounds in studio portraiture Pieter Hugo: Ghana ***
KenyaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Kenya
LiberiaEarly photographers Augustus Washington: Liberia *** Anthropological research Alfred J. Tulk: Community gathering with drums and dancing, Liberia (1932) ***
LibyaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Libya *** Exploration László Almásy: Expeditions in the Sahara (1930s)
MadagascarIntroduction Introduction to photography in Madagascar *** Photographers William Ellis: Madagascar Désiré Charnay: Madagascar
MalawiExpeditions Royal Geographical Society Expedition: Nyassa
MaliPhotographers Seydou Keita: Portraits from Mali Malick Sidibe: Portraits Malick Sidibe: Catalogues ***
MoroccoIntroduction Introduction to photography in Morocco *** Photographers A. Cavilla: Morocco George Washington Wilson: Morocco *** Gabriel Veyre: Morocco Irving Penn: Morocco *** Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
MozambiqueIntroduction Introduction to photography in Mozambique *** Expeditions John Kirk: David Livingstone - The Zambezi Expedition (1858-1864)
NamibiaIntroduction R. Wywias (Windhuk, German South-West Africa [Namibia]): German South-West Africa (1915) ***
NigerPhotographers Robert Gardner: Borroro male beauty - SX-70 prints ***
NigeriaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Nigeria Photographers J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere: Nigerian hairstyles
Republic of the Congo Introduction to the Congo *** Photographers Johannes Emanuel Bræstrup: Missionary in the Congo (1921-1953) ***
SenegalIntroduction Introduction to photography in Senegal Postcards Jean Benyoumof (attributed): Postcards from Senegal *** Photographers Oumar Ka: Portraits from Senegal *** Oumar Ly: Portraits ***
Sierra LeoneIntroduction Introduction to photography in Sierra Leone
SomaliaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Somalia ***
South AfricaIntroduction Introduction to photography in South Africa Ethnic Groups Peoples of South Africa Zulus B.W. Caney: South Africans *** Wilhelm Bleek & Lucy Lloyd: Studies of Bushmen in South Africa Gustav Fritsch: Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika's: ethnographisch und anatomisch beschrieben (1872) Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin: The Bantu Tribes of South Africa (1928-1954) Expeditions and travel James Chapman: Chapman Expedition in South Africa (1862-1864) Henry Anderson Bryden: Gun and Camera in Southern Africa (1893) *** Natural resources and mining South Africa: Diamond mining areas around Kimberley and Griqualand-West *** Unidentified photographer: South African Gold Mining - Durban Roddepoort Deep Mine *** Wars - Anglo-Zulu War (1879) Anglo-Zulu War (1879) Wars - Boer War (1899-1902) Boer War (1899-1902) Underwood & Underwood: South Africa: The Boer War (1899-1902) *** Boer War (1899-1902): Fabrications Photojournalism Drum Photojournalism in South Africa David Goldblatt: In Boksburg *** David Goldblatt: Particulars *** Psychological explorations Roger Ballen: Shadow Chamber
SudanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Sudan *** Sudanese Sudanese *** Photographers Pierre Tremaux: Voyage au Soudan Oriental et dans l'Afrique Septentrionale (1847-1854) Richard Buchta: Sudan and Uganda *** Felice Beato: Khartoum Relief Expedition (1884-1885) Archaeological research The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) Monitoring war crimes Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project
Tanzania - United Republic of TanzaniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Tanzania *** Wars Anglo-Zanzibar War (27 August 1896) Photographers Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d’Afrique (1856) Locations Tanzania: Zanzibar
TogoIntoduction Introduction to photography in Togo Photographers Alex A. Acolatse: Studio portraits ***
Tunisia Introductionto photography in Tunisia *** Photographers Emmanuel de Noailles: Tunisia - Archaeological sites *** Garrigues: Portraits *** Garrigues: Tunis - Exposition Universelle (1889) ***
UgandaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Uganda Photographers Richard Buchta: Sudan and Uganda *** Lantern slides Lantern slides of Uganda (ca. 1890s) ***
AntarcticaThe need for photography Letter from John Herschel to Daguerre (1 August 1939) Introduction Introduction to photography in Antarctica Roald Amundsen: Amundsen's South Pole expedition (1910-1912) Photographers Herbert Ponting: British Antarctic Expedition - Scott - Terra Nova (1910-1913) Frank Hurley: Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1913) Frank Hurley: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)
ArcticIntroduction Introduction to photography in the Arctic Indigenous inhabitants Inuit Alaska: Indigenous peoples *** Greenland: indigenous peoples *** Sápmi: Lapps (Sami or Saami) Photographers Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848) Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield: Inglefield Expedition (1850s) Dr. Isaac I. Hayes: [Greenland Expedition] (ca 1859) William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873) Thomas Mitchell: The British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876) Expeditions Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883) *** The Greely Arctic Exploring Expedition (1881-1884) The schooner FYLLA's Greenland voyage (1884) *** Fridtjof Nansen: First crossing of Greenland (1888) Robert E. Peary: Greenland Expedition (1893-1895) *** Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897) Albert Peter Low: The Canadian North Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15) Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928)
AsiaIntroduction The context for nineteenth century photography in Asia Missionaries in Asia Military background in Asia Photographers in nineteenth century Asia Local photographers in Asia in the nineteenth century Photographers *** Magazines The Far East (1870-1878)
AfghanistanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Afghanistan Introduction to photography in Afghanistan Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880): Introduction *** John Burke: Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1879) Sir Benjamin Simpson: British occupation of Kandahar album (1880) Afghanistan Wars (1979-?) Afghanistan Wars (1979-?) Steve McCurry - The Power of a Single Image Balazs Gardi: Basetrack One-Eight, Afghanistan (2010-2011) Afghan Box Camera Project Afghan Box Camera Project ***
ArmeniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Armenia *** People Armenians *** Places Armenia: Erivan - Yerevan *** Missionary work in Armenia and Mesopotamia Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904) *** Armenian massacres Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
AzerbaijanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Azerbaijan Photographers W. Kochne & Co.: Oilfields, Azerbaijan (ca 1883) *** F. Hordet: Azerbaijan ***
BangladeshIntroduction Introduction to photography in Bangladesh
BhutanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Bhutan ***
CambodiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Cambodia *** The Royal family of Cambodia Royal family of Cambodia *** Photographers Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor John Thomson: Cambodia: Angkor Thom / Angkor Wat (1866) John Thomson: The Antiquites of Cambodia (1867) Pierre Dieulefils: Cambodia *** David Dare Parker: Security Prison 21 (S-21) The aftermath of war HALO Mineclearance Operations, Cambodia
ChinaIntroduction Introduction to photography in China The daguerreotype in China Jules Itier: China Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Chinese The Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860): Introduction Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the Pehtang fort Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the taking of the Taku Fort Felice Beato: Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) and the march to Bejing Felice Beato: Prince Kung / Prince Gong Qinwang of China First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) Ogawa Kazumasa: Album of the Japan-China War - Expedition to Wei-Hai-Wei (1895) *** The Far East The Far East (1870-1878) Notable cities and places in China China: Kwangchow, Canton [Guangzhou] China: Macao China: Peking, Pekin [Beijing] China, Shanghai *** China: Great Wall Rural landscapes Lai Afong: Banker's Glen, Yuen-foo River Tea plantation in the vicinity of Fuzhou, Fujian, China *** Pierre Joseph Rossier in China Pierre Joseph Rossier: China (1859) LG Bros. & Co. LG Bros. & Co.: [Stereoviews of China] (1860) *** Thomas Child in China Thomas Child: China (ca. 1875-1880) *** John Thomson in China John Thomson: Views on the North River (1870) John Thomson: Foochow and the River Min (1870-1871) *** John Thomson: Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-1874) John Thomson: China, cartes de visite (ca 1870) *** John Thomson: The Land and People of China *** John Thomson: Physic Street, Canton, China John Thomson: China, a travelling chiropodist William Pryor Floyd W.P. Floyd: Hong Kong W.P. Floyd: Macao *** W.P. Floyd: Canton Pow Kee Pow Kee: China: Hankow (now Hankou) *** Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski: Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China (1874-1875) The peoples of China Chinese Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China Milton Miller: Portraits from China *** William Saunders: Studio studies of the occupations of the Chinese Lai Afong: Portraits *** Royalty Xunling: Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 *** Documentary China: Typhoon (September 1874) Captain Edward Francis Chapman: Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-1874) China: Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901) *** Hoshino Tatsuo (ed): Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu (1937-1940) *** Beijing Silvermine, Detention - 17 18 19 (1991-1993) *** Amateur photographers Amateur Photographers in China: Sketches by the Rev. R. O'Dowd Ross-Lewin, Chaplain R.N. (7 March 1891) Introduction to fine art photography and Pictorialism in China Donald M. Mennie: Pictorialist China Expeditions Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little Known China (1918) China viewed from the outside China: As seen by external photographers *** Herbert Ponting: China *** Henri Cartier-Bresson: Notes de voyage en Chine (1954) Henri Cartier-Bresson: China *** Republic of China (1912-1949) Republic of China (1912-1949) The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) China and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Propaganda in Communist China *** Contemporary Chinese photography Zhang Huan: Performance art *** Liu Zheng: The Chinese *** Chen Jiagang: The Great Third Front Edward Burtynsky: China Thomas Sauvin and photographic waste in China - The Beijing Silvermine project
Hong KongIntroduction Introduction to photography in Hong Kong Typhoon (22 September 1874) China: Typhoon (September 1874) Photographers John Thomson: Hong Kong *** John Thomson: Chinese photographers on Queen's Road, Hong Kong (1875) John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong W.P. Floyd: Hong Kong Strohmeyer & Wyman: Hong Kong *** Illustrated magazines The Far East (1870-1878)
GeorgiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Georgia *** Places Tiflis - Tbilisi Communications Georgian Military Road Peoples Georgians *** Cossacks *** Photographers Dmitry Ermakov: Georgia
IndiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in India Introduction to early photography in India Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians Calotypes and salt prints Introduction to calotypes in India John Murray: Paper negatives and waxed paper negatives Baron Alexis Aime de LaGrange: Photographies de l'Indie Anglais (1851) Hand-coloured prints Frederick Fiebig: Hand-coloured photographs of India Stereoviews Introduction to stereoviews in India Linnaeus Tripe: Stereographs of Madura...with descriptions by the Rev. W. Tracy, M.A. (1858) The Indian Mutiny and its aftermath Indian Mutiny (1858): Introduction The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Lucknow Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Mutineers hanged Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Hodson's Horse Robert & Harriet Tytler: India at the time of the Mutiny Darogha Ubbas Alli: Sekunder Bagh, Lucknow Photographic societies Madras Photographic Society Cities of India John Edward Saché: Views of Calcutta (ca 1865-1882) Babu Jageswar Prasad & Madho Prasad: Benares *** Archaeological Survey of India The Archaeological Survey of India Archaeological sites Charles Barclay Woodham Moravia: Indian architecture (1858) Linnaeus Tripe *** Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864) *** Thomas Biggs: Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat (1866) *** Edmund David Lyon: Indian architecture (1860s-1860s) James Fergusson: Illustrations of Various Styles of Indian Architecture (1869) *** John Henry Ravenshaw: Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions (1878) Lala Deen Dayal: Photographs for Sir Lepel Griffin "Famous Monuments of Central India" (1886) The industrialisation of India Railways of India Bourne & Shepherd: India: Tea cultivation in Assam *** Sites of India - Photographic studies John P. Nicholas: India Marie Théophile Louis Rousselet: India (1863-1868) Eugene Clutterbuck Impey: India *** Unidentified photographer: Views in India - Beejapoor (1870s - 1880s) *** Sites of India - Cities and localities India: Agra India: Agra: Taj Mahal India: Ahmedabad India: Ajanta India: Beejapoor [Bijapur] India: Amritsar *** India: Benares (Varanasi) India: Bombay (Mumbai) *** India: Calcutta (Kolkata) India: Darjeeling India: Dehli India: Delhi: Qutub Minar - Qutb Minar - Kutub Minar India: Ellora India: Gwalior *** India: Lucknow India: Madras *** India: Madura *** India: Sanchi *** India: Aurungabad India: Sarnath *** India: Simla (Shimla) India: Srinagar *** Northern India and the Himalayas Samuel Bourne: Northern India and the Himalayas (1863-1870) Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864) *** Fred Bremner: Baluchistan Sargeant-Major Develin, Royal Engineers: Views in Chitral, Taken during the advance of the 3rd Brigade of the Chitral Relief Force (1896) *** Royalty and the ruling class of India Bourne & Shepherd: Presentation album for His Royal Highness Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (1870) *** Bourne & Shepherd: Bourne and Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages connected with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales' Tour in India 1876 (1876) *** Bourne & Shepherd: Portraits Portrait: Royalty: Suvenir of the Royal Visit to India (1876) Lala Deen Dayal: Presentation folio of Nawab Vikar-ul-Umra - Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad, Deccan (1894) Lala Deen Dayal: Sorabji Jehangir - Princes and Chiefs of India (1903) *** G.W. Lawrie: Imperial Delhi Durbar (1911) *** Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II Princess Victoria Gouramma *** People of India Ethnological and anthropological studies in India William J. Johnson: Photographs of Western India. Volume I. Costumes and Characters (ca. 1855-1862) *** William Johnson & William Henderson: The Oriental races and tribes, residents and visitors of Bombay (published 1863-1866) J. Forbes Watson & John William Kaye (eds.): The People of India (1868-1872) William E. Marshall: Travels amongst the todas or the study of a primitive tribe in South India, their history, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language; with outlines of the Tuda grammar (1873) *** John P. Nicholas: India: Portraits Nicholas Brothers: India: Portraits *** Willoughby Wallace Hooper: India: Portraits Francis Frith: India: portraits Samuel Bourne: India: Portraits *** Shepherd & Robertson: India: Portraits *** Maurice Vidal Portman: Andamanese Lala Deen Dayal: India: Portraits *** Famine (1876-1878) Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878) Portraiture India and the carte de visite India and the cabinet card Hand-coloured photographs from the Indian sub-continent Photographers Colin Murray: India Lala Deen Dayal: Album of 37 photographs (1887-1888) *** Travel and photojournalism Herbert Ponting: India *** Documentary Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road Nature John Edward Saché: Studies of Indian insects Questioning identity Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India India viewed from the outside India: As seen by external photographers
IndonesiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Indonesia Expeditions Daniel David Veth: Midden-Sumatra Photographie-Album (1877-1879) Early photographers in Indonesia Adolph Schaefer: The Buddhist monument at Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia (1844-1845) *** C. Nieuwenhuis: Sumatra and other regions of Indonesia Woodbury and Page: Views from Southeast Asia Woodbury and Page: Ruling families of Southeast Asia *** Woodbury and Page: Portraits from Southeast Asia Kristen Feilberg: Sumatra (ca 1867-1870) *** Herman Salzwedel: Indonesia (ca. 1875) *** Jean Demmeni: Borneo expedition to Central-Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1896-1897) Isidore van Kinsbergen: Java: Portraits *** Isidore van Kinsbergen: The archaeology of Java C.H. Graves: Boroebodor. Ruins of the world's greatest Buddhist temple, Java. (1902) *** Kassian Cephas: In Den Kedaton te Jogjakarta Albert Grubauer: Indonesia ***
Iran (Islamic Republic of)Introduction Introduction to photography in Iran Persians Early photographers Frances Carlhian: Album page showing the Shah of Persia - Nasir al-Din Shah Nasir al-Din Shah Luigi Pesce: Persia (1850s) Luigi Montabone: Ricordi del viaggio in Persia della missione italiana (1862) Antione Sevruguin: Portraits René Davy de Chavigné de Balloy: Persia (1881-1897) Places Tebriz - Tabriz *** Zengian - Zanjan *** Sultanieh - Soltaniyeh *** Teheran - Tehran *** Persepolis *** Archaeology Iran: Archaeological sites Aerial photography and archaeology Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940) War Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988): Introduction Found photographs and identity Najaf Shokri: Iran Dokht Contemporary photographers Shadi Ghadirian: Women Arab and Iranian contemporary photography Introduction to Arab and Iranian contemporary photography Issues in the representation of the Arab World
IraqIntroduction Introduction to photography in Iraq Archaeology Gabriel Tranchard: The excavations of Victor Place at Khorsabad, Iraq (1850s) Missionary work in Armenia and Mesopotamia Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904) *** Travel A. Kerim: Camera Studies in Iraq (ca. 1925) *** Conflict Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988): Introduction Gulf War (1990-1991): Introduction Gulf War (1990-1991): Sabotaging the oil wells of Kuwait (1991) Gulf War (1990-1991): The Highway of Death (26-27 February 1991) Susan Meiselas: Kurdistan Thoughts on the Gulf War (1990-1991)
Israel and PalestineIntroduction Introduction to photography in Israel and Palestine Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: The Holy Land Early photographers Theodore de Leeuw: Israel and Palestine (1852) *** James Graham: The Holy Land (1855-1857) Mendel Diness: Jerusalem Louis de Clercq: Israel and Palestine George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) Francis Frith: Books on Egypt, Sinai and Palestine Francis Frith: The Holy Land Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem Gabriel de Rumine: Israel & Palestine (1858-1859) *** John Cramb: Palestine in 1860: A Series of Photographic Views (1860) *** Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - The Holy Land and Syria (1862) Francis Frith: The Holy Bible (1862-1863) Louis Vignes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes (1868-74) H.H. Kitchener: Photographs of Biblical Sites (1875) Charles Bierstadt: Palestine *** Félix Bonfils: Jerusalem Félix Bonfils: Views of Palestine [Stereoviews] *** James Robertson: Jerusalem Tancrède Dumas: Jerusalem Strohmeyer & Wyman: Israel and Palestine *** F. & E. Thévoz: La Palestine Illustrée collection de vues recueillies en orient, photographs (1888-1891) *** Alfred.S. Campbell: Palestine (1896) *** Standard Scenic Co.: Palestine (1906) *** Benjamin West Kilburn: Palestine (ca 1898-1899) *** Nineteenth century organizations Palestine Exploration Fund Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai American Palestine Exploration Society American Colony photographers of Jerusalem Archaeological surveying with a balloon Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s) *** Locations Jerusalem Israel and Palestine: Bethlehem *** Israel and Palestine: Nazareth *** Israel and Palestine: Hebron *** Israel and Palestine: Tiberias *** Israel and Palestine: Ramla *** Israel and Palestine: Jaffa *** Israel and Palestine: Bethany *** Israel and Palestine: River Jordan Israel and Palestine - Jordan: Dead Sea *** Travel guides and photography Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Jerusalem Keystone View Company: Maps and Plans Accompanying Palestine Through the Stereoscope (1900) Pictorialism Yaakov Benor-Kalter: Photogravures of Israel and Palestine *** Zionism Zionism in Palestine Robert Capa: Israel and Palestine *** Chim: Israel and Palestine *** Post-1948 wars and social upheaval Middle East - a cycle of wars and uprisings (1948-): Introduction Lebanon 1982-2000 George Azar: War photography in Lebanon (1982-200) The Intifadas Photographic studies on Israel, Palestine and the Intifadas Thoughts on the cycle of wars and uprisings in the Middle East Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier) Conclusions Conclusion to photography in Israel and Palestine
JerusalemExamples Jerusalem Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: The Holy Land Photographers Mendel Diness: Jerusalem Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem Gabriel de Rumine: Jerusalem (1858-1859) *** John Anthony: Jerusalem (late 1850s, 1860s) *** Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient et en Espagne Vols 3 & 4 (1860 or later) *** Félix Bonfils: Jerusalem James Robertson: Jerusalem Tancrède Dumas: Jerusalem John Cramb: Palestine in 1860: A Series of Photographic Views (1860) *** Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Jerusalem (1862) P. Bergheim: Jerusalem *** Charles E. Brown: Aerial view of Jerusalem *** Organisations Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem American Colony photographers of Jerusalem Travel guides and photography Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Jerusalem Locations Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem: Arch of Ecce Homo Jerusalem: Hospital of Sainte-Helene Jerusalem: Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Jerusalem: Western Wall - Wailing Wall - Wailing place Jerusalem: City gates Jerusalem: Garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives Jerusalem: Valley of Jehoshaphat - Kidron Valley Jerusalem: Tomb of the Virgin - Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary - Kidron Valley
JapanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Japan The Japanese Japanese Ainu Japanese ambrotypes Japan: Carte de visite Japan: Stereoviews Art and photography in Japan Photographers and photography in Japan depicted in art Photographers Eliphant Brown: Daguerreotypist on Commodore Perry's voyage to the China Seas and Japan (1850s) Felice Beato: Japan: Portraits Felice Beato: Japan: Places Pierre Joseph Rossier: Japan Charles Bierstadt: Japan *** Wilhelm Burger: Japan (Check attributions) Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Japan: Portraits Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Japan: Places Stillfried & Andersen: Japan: Portraits Stillfried & Andersen: Japan: Places Kusakabe Kimbei: Japan: Portraits Kusakabe Kimbei: Japan: Places *** Adolfo Farsari: Japan: Portraits Adolfo Farsari: Japan: Places Antoon F. Bauduin: Japan *** Suzuki Shinichi 1: Japan: Portraits *** Emile de Montgolfier: Japan Ogawa Kazumasa: Japan: Portraits *** Ogawa Kazumasa: Japan: Places Herbert Ponting: Japan *** Japanese artists and colourists Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists Royal family Royal family of Japan Japanese diplomats overseas Atelier Nadar: Japanese diplomats Cultural stereotypes Samurai Japan: Martial arts *** Sumo wrestlers Japanese men with tattoos Japanese women sleeping Geishas Courtesans Japan: Musicians Japan: Performance, theatre and dance *** Crime and punishment in Japan External cultural influences in Japan Transportation Sedan chairs (kago) in Japan Japan: Jinrikisha, rickshaw or ricksha Japan: Boats *** Locations Landscapes of Japan Japan: Enoshima *** Japan: Hakone *** Japan: Kamakura Japan: Kanagawa *** Japan: Kanasawa *** Japan: Kyoto Japan: Mt. Fuji Japan: Mt. Fuji as a background motif *** Japan: Nagasaki *** Japan: Nagoya Castle *** Japan: Nara *** Japan: Narita *** Japan: Nikko *** Japan: Osaka *** Japan: Tokyo - Edo Japan: Tomioka *** Japan: Yokohama The Far East The Far East (1870-1878) Everyday life in Japan Everyday life in Japan Japan: Shops Japan: Street vendors *** Japan: Crafts Contemporary accounts Photograph of the deceased on a grave at a cemetery in Yokohama, Japan (1881) Concealed meanings T. Enami: A Japanese Farmer and his Wife The Great Earthquake (1891) Ogawa Kazumasa: The Great Earthquake of Japan (1891) A calling card to the West Japan: Described and illustrated by the Japanese (1897) Pictorialism Pictorialism in Japan Baron Adolph de Meyer: Japan *** Arnold Genthe: Japan *** Japanese pictorialism - Bunka Shashin-shu (1922) Japanese Art Photography preserved on Postcards *** Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905): Introduction Photographers of the Russo-Japanese War Second World War (1939-1945) SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945) War: Atomic explosions: Hiroshima War: Atomic explosions: Nagasaki Post-War Japan Provoke Japanese protest books *** W. Eugene Smith: Minamata Photobooks Japanese photobooks
Mt. FujiIntroduction Japan: Mt. Fuji Mt. Fuji as a background Japan: Mt. Fuji as a background motif ***
JordanPhotographers Louis Vignes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes (1868-74) Locations Jordan: Petra Israel and Palestine - Jordan: Dead Sea ***
KazakhstanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Central Asia Introduction to photography in Kazakhstan *** Expeditions Turkestan Album (1871-1872)
Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)Introduction Introduction to the Korean Penisula Early photography Felice Beato: Korean Punitive Expedition (1871) Percival Lowell: Korea (1884) *** Korean War (1950-1953) Korean War (1950-1953): Introduction Korean War (1950-1953): Photographers
Korea (the Republic of)Introduction Introduction to the Korean Penisula Early photography Felice Beato: Korean Punitive Expedition (1871) Percival Lowell: Korea (1884) *** Korean War (1950-1953) Korean War (1950-1953): Introduction Korean War (1950-1953): Photographers
KuwaitIntroduction Introduction to photography in Kuwait *** Gulf War (1990-1991) Gulf War (1990-1991): Introduction Gulf War (1990-1991): The Highway of Death (26-27 February 1991) Gulf War (1990-1991): Sabotaging the oil wells of Kuwait (1991) Thoughts on the Gulf War (1990-1991)
KyrgyzstanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Central Asia Expeditions Turkestan Album (1871-1872)
Lao People's Democratic RepublicPostcards Alfred Raquez: Laos: Postcards ***
LebanonIntroduction Introduction to photography in Lebanon *** Locations Lebanon: Baalbek The Cedars of Lebanon Photographers Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: Lebanon *** Louis de Clercq: Lebanon Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Lebanon (1862) Félix Bonfils: Baalbek *** Tancrède Dumas: Baalbek *** Travel guides and photography Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Lebanon Times of strife Lebanon 1982-2000 George Azar: War photography in Lebanon (1982-200)
MalaysiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Malaysia Photographers John Thomson: Malaysia Kristen Feilberg: Malaysia *** Sachtler and Co: Malacca *** G.R. Lambert & Co.: Malay peninsula ***
Middle EastIntroduction Landscape photography in the Middle East during the nineteenth century Photographers Early photographers in the Middle East Maxime du Camp: Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie (1852) Gustave Le Gray: Egypt Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) A time of conflict Middle East - a cycle of wars and uprisings (1948-): Introduction Lebanon 1982-2000 George Azar: War photography in Lebanon (1982-200) The Intifadas Photographic studies on Israel, Palestine and the Intifadas Thoughts on the cycle of wars and uprisings in the Middle East
MongoliaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Mongolia Documentary Unidentified photographer: Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Car repair shop *** Photographers Yvette Borup Andrews: Across Mongolian plains (1921) *** V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society ***
MyanmarIntroduction Introduction to photography in Burma The peoples of Burma Burmese Photographers John McCosh: Burma Linnaeus Tripe: Burma (1855) Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Burmah Willoughby Wallace Hooper: The scandal of delaying a firing squad Felice Beato: Burma: Portraits Felice Beato: Burma: Places *** Émile Gsell: Burma *** Alonzo Bunker: Burma: Stereoscopic Views Clement Williams: Burma (1861-1863) *** P. Klier - Early resident photographer P. Klier: Burma - Architecture *** P. Klier: Burma - Rural life *** P. Klier: Burma - Portraits Royal family Royal family of Burma *** Stereoviews of Burma Stereo Travel Co. (Corona, New York City): Burma (copyright 1908) *** Contemporary photography Udit Kulshrestha: The Wanch Warriors
NepalIntroduction Introduction to photography in Nepal
PakistanPhotographers Fred Bremner: Baluchistan
PhilippinesIntroduction Introduction to photography in the Philippines Daguerreotypes Unidentified photographer: Daguerreotypes of the Philippines *** Spanish American War The Spanish American War in the Philippines *** Photographers Strohmeyer & Wyman: Philippines *** W.T. Bennet: [Philippines] ***
Saudi ArabiaPlaces Saudi Arabia: Mecca Photographers Mohammad Sadiq: Mecca (1880-1881) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje & Abd al Ghaffar: Pilgrimage to Mecca (1884-1885) Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: Bilder aus Mekka (1889) H.A. Mirza & Sons: Views of Mecca and Medina (1907) Saudi Arabia: The Haj - Abbas Hilmi album
SingaporeIntroduction Introduction to photography in Singapore Early photographers G.R. Lambert & Co.: Singapore August Sachtler: Singapore Sachtler and Co: Singapore *** Émile Gsell: Singapore ***
Sri LankaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) The races of Ceylon Ceylon: The people *** Occupationals Ceylon: Occupationals *** Photographers of Ceylon Julia Margaret Cameron: Ceylon A.W.A. Plate: Sinhalese *** Skeen & Co.: Ceylon Charles Scowen: Ceylon, portraits *** Charles Scowen: Plants of Sri Lanka ***
Syria - Syrian Arab RepublicIntroduction Introduction to photography in Syria Photographers Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: Syria *** Louis de Clercq: Syria Pascal Sebah: Syria: Portraits *** Ludovico Wolfgang Hart: La Syrie Francis Bedford: Syria (1862) *** Louis Vignes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes (1868-74) John Henry Haynes: Syria: Palmyra *** Félix Bonfils: Syria Sulayman Al-Hakim: Syria, Damascus Keystone View Company: Syria *** Underwood & Underwood: Syria *** Places Syria: Damascus Syria: Palmyra People Syrians *** Syrian Civil War (2011-) Evidence of torture in Syria (2014)
TaiwanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Taiwan *** Photographers John Thomson: Formosa (Taiwan) ***
TajikistanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Central Asia Introduction to photography in Tajikistan *** Expeditions Turkestan Album (1871-1872)
ThailandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Thailand *** The People Siamese *** Royal family of Siam Photographers John Thomson: Royal family of Siam Wilhelm Burger: Siam David Dare Parker: HIV, Thailand ***
TibetIntroduction Introduction to photography in Tibet Tibetans *** Photographers Alexander Brodie Melville: Description of a Mystic Play, as Performed in Ladak, Zascar &c. (1865) [Tibet] ***
TurkmenistanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Central Asia Expeditions Turkestan Album (1871-1872)
UzbekistanIntroduction Introduction to photography in Central Asia Introduction to photography in Uzbekistan Expeditions Turkestan Album (1871-1872) Photographers F. Hordet: Central Asia S.M. Dudin: Uzbekistan (ca 1900) Hugues Krafft: A travers le Turkestan Russe (1902) ***
VietnamIntroduction Introduction to photography in Vietnam The peoples of Vietnam Vietnamese Photographers Charles Edouard Hocquard: Tonkin - Vietnam Émile Gsell: Peoples and views of Indochina Pierre Dieulefils: Tonkin and Annam (Vietnam) *** Rigal: Annam (Vietnam) *** Gouin: Annam (Vietnam) *** E. Perot: Tonquin (Vietnam) *** Vietnam War (1961-1975) The French Indochina War and the origins of the Vietnam War (1961-1975) Increasing American involvement in Vietnam The photographic legacy of the Vietnam War (1961-1975) Photographers of the Vietnam War (1961-1975) David Dare Parker: Agent Orange, Vietnam ***
YemenIntroduction Yemen: Aden
AlbaniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Albania ***
Austria Introduction to photography in Austria Daguerreotypes Joseph von Pasqualati: View of the chemistry laboratory at the old Polytechnic Institute Vienna (ca. 1845) *** Cartes de visite Ludwig Angerer: Carte de visite portraits Stereoviews Baldi & Würthle: Austria, stereographs Otto Schönstein (Raumbild Albums): Vienna, the pearl of the Reich (1941) *** Places Austria: Vienna Still life Ferdinand Küss: Still lives *** Science Constantin v. Ettingshausen and A. Pokorny: Physiotypia plantarum austriacarum (1855-1856) Vienna (Wien), Weltausstellung (1873) Vienna, Weltausstellung, 1873 Wien Vienna, Weltausstellung, 1873 Wien: Commemorative medallion *** Instantaneous photography Victor Angerer: Instantaneous photography on the street (1888) Emil Mayer: Street photography Pictorialism Pictorialism in Austria Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1894) Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1896) ***
BelarusIntroduction Introduction to photography in Belarus *** Locations Konrad Brandel: Views of the City of Pinsk (1882-1884) [Russian Empire, now Belarus] ***
BelgiumIntroduction Introduction to photography in Belgium Daguerreotypes Bruges, ses Monuments et ses Tableaux, edited by Daveluy (Bruges, Daveluy, 1855) Daguerreotypes: Belgium Calotypes Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut: Belgian cityscapes *** Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut: Portraits *** Photographers Edmond Fierlants: Belgium: Architecture (1860s) *** Belgian royal family Royal family of Belgium Places Belgium: Antwerp Belgium: Brussels *** Belgium: Leuven *** Pictorialism Pictorialism in Belgium Gustave Marissiaux: Visions d’Artistes (1908) *** Leonard Misonne: Trees Edouard Hannon: Belgium: Landscapes *** Charles Gaspar: Belgian Pictorialist Jules Lejeune: Belgian amateur photographic diary (1920-1922) *** Documentary Gustave Marissiaux: La Houillère (1904-1905) *** Surrealism Belgium and surrealism Erotica Georges Thiry: Prostitutes *** Documentary Carl Uytterhaegen: Cité3
Bosnia HerzegovinaIntroduction Introduction to Bosnia and Herzegovina *** Photographers Stjepan Tomlinovic: Ethnic and traditional clothing from Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia Alexander Landau: Ethnic and traditional clothing from Bosnia Herzegovina Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Examples of photography from the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Thoughts on the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Photographers of the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999)
BulgariaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Bulgaria
CroatiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Croatia *** Photographers Stjepan Tomlinovic: Ethnic and traditional clothing from Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia
CyprusIntroduction Introduction to photography in Cyprus *** Archaeology Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet: Archaeological finds from Cyprus (1864) *** Photographers John Thomson: Cyprus *** Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton: Anthropological portraits, Cyprus (ca 1913) *** Haigaz Mangoian: Cyprus
CzechiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in the Czech Republic *** Arthur Scheiner: At the Photographer (1890) Photographers František Fridrich: Czech Republic: Prague Subterranean photography in the Moravian Karst region Martin Kriz: Moravian Karst region - subterranean photography Pictorialism Introduction to Czech Pictorialism *** Czech avant-garde (1918-1938) Introduction to the Czech avant-garde (1918-1938) Illustrated magazines in Czechoslovakia Frantisek Drtikol: Nudes Jaromir Funke: Abstract compositions Josef Sudek: Books *** Josef Sudek: Trees *** Josef Sudek: Vanished Statues in Mionsi Josef Sudek: Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral *** Josef Sudek: Glasses and bread *** Milos Korecek: Abstractions (Fokalke) Bohumil Stepan: Satirical photocollages Ladislav Postupa: Experimental vision *** The Cold War Prague Spring (1968) *** Photobooks Czech photobooks *** Jaromir Funke: Book covers ***
DenmarkIntroduction Introduction to photography in Denmark Daguerreotypes The Daguerreotype in Denmark Places Denmark: Copenhagen *** Iceland and Greenland The Fox Surveying Expedition (1860-1861) Photographers Heinrich Tonnies: Portraits *** H. Hansen: Danske prospekter [Series] *** Holger A. Nielsen: [Stereoviews of Denmark] *** Budtz Müller & Co.: [Stereoviews of Denmark] *** Peter Lorens Fangel: [Stereoviews of Denmark] *** Høeg & Brøns: [Stereoviews of Denmark] *** H.J. Barby: Copenhagen Zoo *** Carl Schreiber: [Stereoviews of Denmark] *** K.G. Stöckel: Bornholmske - Klippepartier [Series] *** C.F. Brandt: Second Schleswig War / Prussian-Danish War (1864) Valdemar Myhre: [Rocky coasts with surf, Denmark] (ca 1900-1910) *** Fritz Benzen: The streets and buildings of Copenhagen, Denmark (ca 1895-1910) *** The innovative use of colour Keld Helmer-Petersen: Colour
EstoniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Estonia ***
FinlandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Finland Sápmi Sápmi: Lapps (Sami or Saami) Rural life Into Konrad Inha: Finland ***
FranceIntroduction Introduction to photography in France Instruction manuals Daguerreotype manuals and instructions: France *** Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Paris Daguerreotypes: France: Landscapes and cityscapes Floods in Nantes, France (1843) Daguerreotypes: Paris: Notre-Dame *** Calotypes and salt prints Henry Fox Talbot: France: Paris Henry Fox Talbot: France: Orleans *** Calotypes and salt prints: France Publications France: Photography magazines and journals Landscape Early French landscape photographers Reasons for French pre-eminence in nineteenth century landscape photography Eugène Cuvelier: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Camille Silvy: River Scene (1858) John Mounteney Jephson: Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany (1859) *** Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s) Emile de La Bédollière & Ildefonse Rousset: Le tour de Marne / décrit et photographie´ par Émile de la Bédollière et Ildefonse Rousset (1865) *** John Stewart: Pyrenees (1850s) Vicomte Joseph Vigier: Pyrenees Farnham Maxwell Lyte: The Pyrenees Robert Demachy: Landscapes *** Cities France: Arles France: Chartres *** France: Rheims *** France: Rouen France: Aix-les-Bains: Thermal spa *** Documentary projects Mission Héliographique Edmond Bacot: Christian architecture in France *** Charles Nègre: Vincennes Imperial Asylum (1859) Édouard Baldus: Inondations du Rhône à Lyon et Avignon (1856) Édouard Baldus: Les chemins de fer du Nord. Ligne de Paris à Boulogne. Vues photographiques Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862) Édouard Baldus: Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (1860s) William J. Stillman: Normandy *** Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris Delmaet & Durandelle: The Paris Opera (1861-1875) Les Travaux Publics de la France (1878-1882) Richebourg: Carte geologique detaillee de la France, Feuille 48.- Paris (1879) Portraits André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Photomontages - Mosaïques Nadar: Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique Souvenirs Souvenir sets of travel photographs Pictorialism in France Pictorialism in France The Photo Club of Paris (Le Photo Club de Paris) *** Naval warfare Submarine warfare during the First World War (1914-1918) *** Illustrated magazines Illustrated magazines in France VU *** Political propaganda before the Second World War Marinus: Anti-Nazi political photomontage in France Street photography The humanism of street photography in France Classic French street photography Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment Robert Doisneau: Humanistic photography Édouard Boubat: Street photography and tender moments Social conflict and war Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris Gustave Le Gray: Camp de Châlons (1857) Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871): Introduction Photomontage during the Paris Commune (1871) Robert Capa: D-Day, Normandy (6 June 1944) Photobooks French photobooks ***
Eiffel TowerIntroduction Paris: The Eiffel Tower Photographers Louis-Emile Durandelle: Eiffel Tower (1887-1889) Albert Fernique: Construction of the Eiffel Tower, Paris (1888) Grabriel Loppé: Paris: Eiffel Tower *** Erwin Blumenfeld: Lisa Fonssagrives on the Eiffel Tower (1939) ***
Forest of FontainebleauContext to the Forest of Fontainebleau Fontainebleau, Barbizon - the relationships between painters and photographers Fontainebleau from the air Thomas Seddon on protecting the Forests of Fontainebleau (1850) Preserving paint in collapsible tubes Similarities between paintings and photographs Paintings of the Forests of Fontainebleau Photographs of the Forests of Fontainebleau Case studies Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The road to Chailly (Forests of Fontainebleau) Paintings and prints based upon paintings or vice versa - The Bodmer Oak (Forests of Fontainebleau) Photographers in the Forest of Fontainebleau Eugène Cuvelier: France: Forest of Fontainebleau William Drooke Harrison: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Gustave Le Gray: France: Forest of Fontainebleau Constant Alexandre Famin: The Forest of Fontainebleau *** L. Delaroche: Forest of Fontainebleau *** Eugène Atget: Forest of Fontainebleau *** Herb Ascherman: Forest of Fontainebleau ***
ParisIntroduction Introduction to photography in Paris Photographic studios of Paris Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Paris Daguerreotypes: Paris: Notre-Dame *** Paris et ses Environs Reproduits par le Daguerrotype, Sous la Direction de M. Ch. Philipon (Paris: Chez Aubert et Cie, 1840) Jean Baptiste Marie Chamouin: Vues de Paris (1845) *** Daguerreotypomania Daguerreotypomania Hippolyte Bayard Hippolyte Bayard: Paris Henry Fox Talbot in Paris Henry Fox Talbot: France: Paris Notre Dame France: Paris - Notre Dame France: Paris - Notre Dame, Facade France: Paris - Notre Dame, La Porte Rouge Locations Paris: Arc de Triomphe Paris: Bois de Boulogne Paris: The Eiffel Tower Paris: Hôtel de Ville Paris: Les Halles *** Paris: Montmartre Paris: Pantheon Paris: Saint-Jacques Tower *** Paris: Place du Concorde Paris: Place Vendôme Paris: Pont Neuf *** Paris: Saint-Cloud Paris: The Louvre Paris: The Seine Paris: Tuileries Paris: École des Beaux-Arts *** Paris: Sacre Coeur *** The Year of Revolutions (1848) Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris Early photographers of Paris Gustave Le Gray: France: Paris *** Charles Nègre: France: Paris *** Édouard Baldus: France: Paris Charles Marville: France: Paris Nadar: Balloon flights Nadar: Catacombs and subterranean Paris (1860s) Achille Quinet: Paris Hippolyte Jouvin: Paris (ca 1860-1870) *** George Stacy: Paris *** The construction of the Paris Opera Delmaet & Durandelle: The Paris Opera (1861-1875) The remodelling of the Élysée Palace Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg (attributed): Élysée Palace, Paris (ca. 1867) l'Hotel Carnavalet Pierre Emonds: Façades et cour de l'hôtel Carnavalet, Paris (ca. 1870) *** Grand Hotel Terminus-Saint Lazare Louis-Émile Durandelle and Albert Chevojon: Grand Hotel Terminus-Saint Lazare, Paris (1889 or later) *** Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) René Patrice Proudhon Dagron: Photomicrographs, carrier-pigeons and the beseiged city of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) The Paris Commune (1871) Paris Commune (1871): Introduction Paris Commune (1871): Photographs of wanted and dead communards Paris Commune (1871): Destruction of the Vendome Column Paris Commune Album (1871) Railways of Paris Construction du Chemin de Fer Metropolitan Municipal de Paris (1905-1910) Eugène Atget Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris Eugène Atget: Churches of Paris - L’Eglises de Paris [Portfolio] *** Eugène Atget: Street photography Eugène Atget: Window displays and goods for sale Eugène Atget: Versailles *** Amateur photography and snapshots Grabriel Loppé: Paris by night *** Photograph album - An Unknown Street Photographer in Paris (1896) The Second World War Liberation of Paris (1944) *** Social life Brassaï: Night Brassaï: The nightlife of Paris *** The social life of Paris *** Frank Horvat: Le Sphynx, rue Pigalle, Paris *** Streets of Paris Robert Doisneau: Humanistic photography André Kertész: Street photography in Paris Édouard Boubat: Street photography and tender moments Willy Ronis: Paris *** Robert Frank: Paris *** Otto Steinert: Paris *** Harold Chapman: Paris
GermanyIntroduction Introduction to photography in Germany *** Nineteenth century photography in Germany Dr Franz von Kobell & Carl August von Steinheil: Germany: Munich (1839) *** Daguerreotypes: Germany Daguerreotype manuals and instructions: Germany *** Salt prints: Germany City of Hamburg fire (1842) Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann: Portraits Alois Löcherer: The statue of Bavaria, Munich (1844-1850) Germany: Photography magazines and journals Leopold Ahrendts: Berlin Carl Hermann Günther: Coronation ceremony of the King of Prussia (1861) *** S.P. Christmann: Germany [Stereoview series] J.F. Stiehm: Ansichten von Deutschland [Series] *** Anselm Schmitz: The Rhine and its Environs [Series] *** William England: Views of the Rhine and Its Vicinity / Der Rhein und seine Umgebungen [Series] *** Adolphe Braun: Allemagne [Series] *** Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871): Introduction Erinnerung an Oberammergau 1890 (Souvenir of Oberammergau 1890) Waldemar Franz Herman Titzenthaler: Types of German Workers The German royal family Royal family of Germany Cities Germany: Berlin *** Germany: Cologne Germany: Hamburg Germany: Heidelberg Germany: Munich Germany: Nuremberg Pictorialism in Germany Pictorialism in Germany Hugo Erfurth: Portraits *** First World War German illustrated magazines during the First World War Weimar Germany The aftermath of the First World War in Germany Cultural innovation in Weimar Germany Film und Foto - FiFo (1929) German expressionism German Expressionism: Vampyr (1932) Ross Verlag: Publisher of real photographic postcards Mannesmannröhrenwerke A. G., Komotau. 1888-1925; Neuanlagen und Umbauten, ab 1920 (ca. 1929) Political collage in Weimar Germany John Heartfield: Political photomontages AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung Photojournalists in Weimar Germany The legacy of Weimar as photojournalists left Germany Paul Citroen: Metropolis Bauhaus Introduction to New Objectivity Erich Retzlaff: Book covers The Rise of Fascism and Nazi Germany The photographic portrayal of Adolf Hitler Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler - Nazi propaganda series Heinrich Hoffmann (Editor) & Josef Bürckel (Foreword): Hitler holt die Saar heim (1938) Leni Riefenstahl: The creation of the myths of National Socialism Nazi suicides in Leipzig, Germany (1945) Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945) The Holocaust: Death camps Richard Peter Sr.: Dresden. Eine Kamera klagt an. Ein historisches Dokument (1949) *** Photographers Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1952) August Sander: Portraits August Sander: Cologne August Sander: Landscapes *** Hugo Schmölz: German architecture *** Albert Renger-Patzsch: Die Welt ist schön Albert Renger-Patzsch: Ruhrchemie factory, Oberhausen-Holten, Germany Albert Renger-Patzsch: Schubert & Salzer - Textile machinery - Ingolstadt Albert Renger-Patzsch: Bilder aus der Landschaft zwischen Ruhr und Möhne (1957) Post-War Germany Introduction to Fotoform Introduction to subjective photography Heinz Hajek-Halke: Experimental photography Kurt Wendlandt: Lichtgraphik *** The Berlin Wall Anders Petersen: Café Lehmitz Peter Keetman: Volkswagen Factory, Wolfsburg (1953) Unidentified photographer: Im Pütt (1953) *** Heinrich Riebesehl: Agrarlandschaften *** Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: The first exhibition "Bali-Kino" Berlin (October 1974) Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer: What‘s our Concern with Strangers? Dusseldorf School Dusseldorf School Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies Contemporary projects The Trashcam Project - Hamburg, Germany (2012) Photobooks German photobooks *** Albert Renger-Patzsch: Books
GibraltarIntroduction Introduction to photography in Gibraltar
GreeceIntroduction Introduction to photography in Greece Greeks Greeks Daguerreotypists Daguerreotypes: Greece Early travelers to Greece Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: Athens (1842) Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros: Athens Eugene Piot: Greece Alfred-Nicolas Normand: Greece *** Gabriel de Rumine: Greece (1858-1859) Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Greece (1862) Konstantinos Athanasiou: Greek archaeological sites *** Josef Székely: Thessaloniki (October 1863) Greece: The Dilessi Murders (1870) Fred Boissonnas: Greece The archaeological sites of Athens Athens: The Acropolis Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Parthenon Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Erechtheion Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Propylaia Greece: Athens: Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion) Dmitri Constantine: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens Athens: Monument of Lysicrates *** Athens: Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos) Athens: Theseion *** Athens: The Aeropagus (Areios Pagos) *** Athens: Philopappos Monument *** Athens: Theatre of Dionysus *** Greece: Athens: Arch of Hadrian *** Autochromists in Greece Fernand Cuville: Greece: Mount Athos Greek / Turkish population exchanges (ca. 1923) Nelly's: Greek refugees from Asia Minor *** The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) Greek Civil War (1946-1949): Introduction Greek Civil War (1946-1949): Photographers
AcropolisExamples Athens: The Acropolis Individual buildings Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Parthenon Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Erechtheion Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Propylaia Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Temple of Victory (Athena Nike, Nike Apteros, Wingless Victory) *** Photographers Alfred-Nicolas Normand: Athens: The Acropolis *** Dmitri Constantine: Athens: Acropolis *** P. Moraites: Athens: The Acropolis *** William J. Stillman: Athens: Acropolis (1868-1870) Walter Hege: Greece: Athens: The Acropolis (1928-1930) *** Sculptural elements Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Sculptural elements
HungaryIntroduction Introduction to photography in Hungary Nineteenth century studios Architectural designs for Hungarian studios *** Backmarks for Hungarian photographic studios Themes Architectural photography in Hungary Advertising and commercial photography in Hungary *** Sports and pastimes in Hungary *** Fascism and the Second World War in Hungary Hungarian Uprising (1956) *** Photographers André Kertész: Hungary J. Pécsi: Photo und Publizität - Photo and Advertising (1930) Locations Hungary: Budapest ***
IcelandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Iceland *** Photographers Louis Rousseau: Iceland Robert John Henry: Iceland *** Magnus Ólafsson: Iceland *** Expeditions Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland (1909) ***
IrelandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Ireland Photographers Mary Rosse (Countess of Rosse) *** Mary Rosse: Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland (ca. 1857) Alexander Doussin Dubreuil: Ireland: The Repeal Martyrs (1842-1845) William Despard Hemphill: The Abbeys, Castles, and Scenery of Clonmel and the Surrounding Countryside (1860) Robert French: Ireland J.J. Clarke: The streets of Dublin Dorothea Lange: Ireland *** Harry Callahan: Ireland ***
ItalyIntroduction Introduction to photography in Italy Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Italy Lorenzo Suscipj (daguerreotypist) and Johann Jakob Falkeisen (artist, Swiss, 1804–1883): Vues d'Italie d'après la daguerreotype (Ferdinando Artaria et Fils, 1840-1841) *** Calotypes and salt prints Paper photography: Italy The Roman Photographic School The Roman Photographic School - Circolo del Caffé Greco (1847-1855) Calotypes Édouard Delessert: Ile de Sardaigne: Cagliari et Sassari, 40 Vues Photographiques (1854) The Defence of Rome (1849) Stefano Lecchi: The Defence of Rome (la difesa di Roma) (1849) *** Eugene Piot Eugene Piot: Italy (1849-1852) Alphonse Bernoud Grellier Alphonse Bernoud & Claude Grillet: Italy: Earthquake damage (1857-1858) Giovanni Brampton Philpot Giovanni Brampton Philpot: [Florence and vicinity] (1855-1860) *** Robert Macpherson Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome James Anderson James Anderson: The Roman Forum *** James Anderson: The Colosseum *** Gabriel de Rumine Gabriel de Rumine: Italy (1858-1859) *** Fratelli Alinari Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Florence *** Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Pisa: Leaning Tower *** Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Rome: Colosseum *** Fratelli Alinari: Portraits Giorgio Sommer Giorgio Sommer: Naples *** Robert Rive Robert Rive: Pompeii Robert Rive: Rome Robert Rive: Naples *** Enrico Van Lint Enrico Van Lint: Pisa Carlo Naya Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Palaces Francis Heyland (Francesco Heyland) Francis Heyland: Italy: Pavia: Carthusian Monastery of the Certosa (ca 1865) *** Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871) Introduction to the Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871) *** Giuseppe Garibaldi Eugène Sevaistre: Italian Risorgimento - Gaeta *** Eugène Sevaistre: Italian Risorgimento - Palermo *** Gustave Le Gray: Palermo (1860) *** Vesuvius and Pompeii Italy: Pompeii Giorgio Sommer: Eruption of Vesuvius (1872) Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii Michele Amodio: Pompeii *** Thomas H. Dyer: The Ruins of Pompeii. A Series of Eighteen Photographic Views (1867) L'Italie pittoresque Naya and Schoefft: L'Italie pittoresque (before 1875) *** Travel guides and photography Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Italy Albums for travelers Souvenir albums for travelers in Italy *** Enrico Van Lint: Ricordo di Pisa (ca 1875-1880) Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later) Cities Pisa Milan Stereotypes Stereotypical portraits in nineteenth century Italy Pictorialism James Craig Annan: Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures (1896) *** Futurism Futurism *** Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890-1960) and Arturo Bragaglia (1893-1962) Second World War (1939-1945) Margaret Bourke-White: Purple Heart Valley Post-War Italy Introduction to Post-War Italy Mario Giacomelli: On Being Aware of Nature (Presa di coscienza sulla natura) Mario Giacomelli: There are no Hands to Caress My Face (Lo non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto) *** Henri Cartier-Bresson: Italy *** Herbert List: Italy *** Contemporary colour Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome Franco Fontana: Colour *** Joel Meyerowitz: Tuscany ***
ColosseumExamples Italy: Rome: The Colosseum Photographers James Anderson: The Colosseum *** Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Rome: Colosseum ***
FlorenceIntroduction Introduction to photography in Florence Photographers Giovanni Brampton Philpot: [Florence and vicinity] (1855-1860) *** Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Florence *** Fratelli Alinari: The statues of Florence Sites Italy: Florence: Cathedral - Duomo *** Italy: Florence: Baptistery Italy: Florence: Pitti Palace - Palazzo Pitti *** Italy: Florence: Ponte Vecchio Italy: Florence: Piazza della Signoria e Loggia de Lanzi *** Albums Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later)
RomeIntroduction Introduction to photography in Rome Early travelers to Rome Alexander John Ellis: Rome (1841) Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: Rome (1842) *** Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg: Rome *** The Roman Photographic School The Roman Photographic School - Circolo del Caffé Greco (1847-1855) The Defence of Rome (1849) Stefano Lecchi: The Defence of Rome (la difesa di Roma) (1849) *** Views Italy: Rome: Views The Tiber Italy: Rome: The Tiber Monuments and archaeological sites of Rome Italy: Rome: The Colosseum Italy: Rome: Arch of Constantine Italy: Rome: Arch of Settimius Severus Italy: Rome: Arch of Titus Italy: Rome: Arch of the Silversmiths / Arch of the Jewelers / Porticus Margaritaria Italy: Rome: Arch of Janus *** Italy: Rome: Arch of Drusus *** Italy: Rome: Forum Romanum Italy: Rome: Forum Traiani Italy: Rome: Forum of Nerva, Temple of Pallas, The Colonnacce, Arch of Pantani Italy: Rome: Temple of Antoninus and Faustina Italy: Rome: Temple of Castor and Pollux *** Italy: Rome: Temple of Fortuna Virilius Italy: Rome: Temple of Vesta Italy: Rome: Pantheon *** Italy: Rome: Tomb of Cecilia Metella Italy: Rome: Baths of Caracalla Italy: Rome: Castel S. Angelo Italy: Rome: Trajan's Column Italy: Rome: Theatre of Marcellus Italy: Rome: Pyramid of Cestius Italy: Rome: Via Appia *** Public buildings, churches and landmarks Italy: Rome: St. Peter's and the Vatican Italy: Rome: San Giovanni in Laterano (Archbasilica of St. John Lateran) Italy: Rome: S. Maria Maggiore *** Italy: Rome: Villa Medici Italy: Rome: Campidoglio - Capitoline Hill Public squares and fountains Italy: Rome: Piazza del Popolo Italy: Rome: Piazza del Quirinale Italy: Rome: Piazza Navona Italy: Rome: Piazza Barberini: Fontana del Tritone *** Italy: Rome: Trevi fountain Photographers Calvert Richard Jones: Italy: Rome *** Comte Frederic Flacheron: Rome Giacomo Caneva: Rome Eugene Constant: Rome *** Jane Martha St. John: Italy: Rome Bisson frères: Italy: Rome *** Angelo Luswergh and his son Giocomo Luswergh: Rome Alexandre Bertrand: Rome (1862) *** James Anderson: The monuments of Rome and is surroundings Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome Carlo Ponti: Italy, Rome (1870-1880) *** Altobelli & Molins: Rome Michel Mang: Rome *** Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Rome: Colosseum *** Views of Rome taken by Adriano de Bonis signed by Achille Quinet Robert Rive: Rome Edmond Behles: Rome Carlo Baldassare Simelli: Rome Giovanni Battista Maggi: Rome *** E. Verzaschi: Rome *** John Henry Parker: Documenting Ancient Rome John Henry Parker: Selections from Mr. Parker's Historical Photographs of Rome and Italy, arranged in systematic order, with prefaces to each subject (1879) John Henry Parker: Recent Excavations in Rome: Made in 1868
VeniceExamples Venice Italy: Venice: Palaces Early views based on daguerreotypes Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Venice *** Photographers Domenico Bresolin: Venice Alexander John Ellis: Venice (1841) *** John Ruskin: Venice Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Palaces Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal Carlo Ponti: Italy: Venice P. Salviati: Venice *** Antonio Perini: Venice *** Giorgio Sommer: Venice *** Fratelli Alinari: Italy: Venice *** Ferdinando Ongania: Calli e Canali in Venezia (1890s) Alfred S. Campbell: Venice (1896) *** Littleton View Company: Venice *** Alfred Stieglitz: Venice *** Arthur FitzGerald Cochrane: Venice *** Gustave Marissiaux: Venice *** Megalethoscopes Megalethoscopes
LatviaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Latvia ***
LithuaniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Lithuania Photographers Moi Ver: Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna (1931) *** Antanas Sutkus: Portraits ***
LuxembourgIntroduction Introduction to photography in Luxembourg Documentary Charles Bernhoeft: Construction of the Adolphe Bridge, Luxembourg (1900-1903) ***
MaltaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Malta *** Photographers Calvert Richard Jones: Malta *** James Dunlop: Malta *** James Robertson: Photographic views of Malta, taken in 1856 H. Agius: Malta ***
MoldovaCarte de visite The carte de visite in Moldova *** Moldova under Soviet control Zaharia Cusnir: Moldova under Soviet rule (1950s-1970s)
MonacoPhotographers Littleton View Company: Monaco ***
MontenegroIntroduction Introduction to photography in Montenegro ***
NetherlandsIntroduction Introduction to photography in The Netherlands Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes in The Netherlands *** Early days The Netherlands: Amsterdam *** Jager (publisher): Costumes of the Low Countries Photographers Pieter Oosterhuis: Amsterdam Photographié (ca 1860) *** Alfred Stieglitz: The Netherlands: Coastal communities *** Georg Hendrik Breitner: Using photography as an aid to painting Richard Polak: Costume pieces *** Illustrated magazines Illustrated magazines in Holland Photobooks Dutch photobooks ***
NorwayIntroduction Introduction to photography in Norway Daguerreotypes The Daguerreotype in Norway *** Stereoviews Knud Knudsen: Norway [Stereoviews] *** Viking View Co. [Edgerton, Wisconsin]: Norway [Stereoviews sold in the USA] *** Viking View Co. (Minneapolis, Minnesota): Norway [Stereoviews sold in the USA] *** Skandinavens Boghandel Co.: Views from Kristiansen towards Munkholmen *** Leon & Levy: Norway [Stereo postcards] *** Cityscapes Hans Krum: Norway: Trondheim *** Landscapes Knud Knudsen: Norway and its landscapes Nils Olsson Reppen: Norway Edward Backhouse Mounsey: Cruise of the "Nereid" (1869) *** Costumes Marcus Selmer: Norwegian costumes Knud Knudsen: Norwegian folk costumes *** Solveig Lund: Norwegian folk costumes Söstrene Persen: Norwegian folk costumes *** P.L. Quist: Norwegian folk costumes *** Sápmi Sápmi: Lapps (Sami or Saami) Anthropology Prince Roland Bonaparte's ethnographic expedition to Lapland (1884) Photographers Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883) *** Co-operative View Co.: Norway ***
PolandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Poland Carte de visite The carte de visite in Poland Photographers Kloch & Dutkiewicz (publisher): Warsaw *** Konrad Brandel: Warsaw *** Karol Beyer: Warsaw Second World War The Katyn Forest Massacre *** Teresa Zarnower: Obrona Warszawy - The defense of Warsaw (1942-1945) Henryk Ross: Lodz Ghetto, Poland (1943-1945) Photographers Jack Burman: KZ
PortugalIntroduction Introduction to photography in Portugal Photographers Joseph James Forrester: Portugal Frederick William Flower: Portugal (1850s) Emilio Biel: Construction of the Ponte Maria Pia in Porto (1876-1877) Emilio Biel: Caminho de Ferro do Douro (ca. 1890) Emilio Biel & Ca.: Album de Phototypico Vistas e Costumes do Norte de Portugal (ca. 1900) *** Illustrated magazines A.C. Pardal & Filho: Publicação Photographica (1870-1871) Books Portugal 1934: Photomontage as propaganda
Republic of MacedoniaPhotographers Josef Székely: Austro-Hungarian expedition to northern Albania, Kosova and Macedonia (1863)
RomaniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Romania Royal family of Romania Royal family of Romania Carte de visite The carte de visite in Romania Cabinet cards The cabinet card in Romania *** Photographers Ludwig Angerer: Bucharest (1856) *** Carol Szathmari: Romania
RussiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Russia Russians Russians Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Russia The Russian Royal Family Royal family of Russia Celebrities Album of photographic portraits of August persons and persons well-known in Russia (1865) Photographers Roger Fenton: Russia (1852) Charles Piazzi Smyth: Early street photography in Russia (1859) William Carrick: Russian occupationals J. Monstein: Russian types Emile Ninaud: Amur River region between Russia and China (1870s) Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Early colour photographs of trees and tracks Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Ethnic and traditional costumes Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15) Karl Gustavovich Gebauer: The Orenburg steppe - Album (1915-1918) Cities Russia, Moscow Panorama of Moscow (before 1868) Russia: St. Petersburg - Leningrad Albert Felisch: Russia, St. Petersburg Ivan Bianchi: Russia: St. Petersburg Alfred Lorens: Russia: St. Petersburg *** Print sellers Daziaro (print seller): Moscow Communications Georgian Military Road Events Ivan Boldyrev: Night illumination at Peterhof (1893) *** Victims of the Khodinsky Plain panic, Coronation Week, Moscow, Russia (1896) Documentary Unidentified photographer: Russia: Workshops of the Valaam monastery (early 1890s) *** Maxim Dmitriev: Lean years 1891-1892 in the Nizhny Novgorod province (1891-1892) *** The people Ethnic and traditional clothing from Astrakhan Military Unidentified photographer: Types photographiés de l'armée russe (1880) *** Russian Empire: Hand-coloured cabinet card military portraits *** Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905): Introduction Photographers of the Russo-Japanese War Russian Revolution and its Aftermath (1917) Russian Revolution and the aftermath (1917): Introduction Photographers of the Russian Revolution (1917) Pictorialism Pictorialism in Russia Alexander Grinberg: Nudes Soviet imagery Constructivism Soviet imagery Alexander Rodchenko: AMO Plant - Automobile Moscow Society, now ZIL (1929) *** El Lissitzky (Graphic design and photomontages): Album dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the creation of the RKKA - Russian: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (1934) *** Russia: Soviet-era shop window displays (1960s) *** Illustrated magazines Illustrated magazines in U.S.S.R. USSR in Construction Sovetskoe Photo magazine *** Posters Soviet photomontage propaganda posters *** Films Sergei Eisenstein: Strike (1925) Dziga Vertov:The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Second World War / The Great Patriotic War Second World War (1939-1945): Soviet photographers Russia viewed from the outside Russia: As seen by external photographers Margaret Bourke-White: U.S.S.R portfolio Henri Cartier-Bresson: Russia
SerbiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Serbia Photographers Torvald Mitreiter: Eastern European clothing, Serbians (ca. 1860s-1870s) *** War Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Examples of photography from the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Thoughts on the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999) Photographers of the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999)
SlovakiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Slovakia
SloveniaGeology Unidentified photographer: Postojna Cave [present-day Slovenia] (1890) ***
SpainIntroduction Introduction to photography in Spain *** Early photography in Spain Daguerreotypes: Spain *** Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Spanish William Sterling: Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) Spaniards Spaniards Photographers Théophile Gautier: Wanderings in Spain (1853) Mr. E. K. Tenison, of Kilbonan Castle, exhibited a number of photographs of very large size, representing views in Spain (1853) Louis de Clercq: Spain Alphonse De Launay: Spain *** Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer’s Experiment (1857) Juan Laurent: The Islamic architecture of Spain Juan Laurent: Arms and armour *** Juan Laurent: Portraits *** Juan Laurent: Public works in Spain (1860s) Martínez Sánchez: Public works in Spain (1860s) Joan Martí Centellas: Barcelona Charles Clifford: The cities of Spain Charles and Jane Clifford: Armour *** Frank Mason Good and others?: Frank M. Good's Spain *** Alois Beer: Spanien (Spain) [Series] *** Documentary Cartes de visite: Spanish criminals (ca. 1870) Locations Spain: Granada: Alhambra Pictorialism Pictorialism in Spain Otto Wunderlich: Spain José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886-1982) Alfonso Sánchez García and sons: Rincones del viejo Madrid (Nocturnos) (1951) *** Postcards Postcards: Spanish costumes *** The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Photographers of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Robert Capa: Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano Gerda Taro: Woman Photographer Crushed by Loyalist Tank Posters from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) *** Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography Photojournalism in Spain W. Eugene Smith: The Spanish Village (1951) Roger Mayne: Costa del Sol (1962) ***
SwedenIntroduction Introduction to photography in Sweden Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Sweden Daguerreotype manuals and instructions: Sweden *** Stereocards Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (NPG): Sweden (1910) *** Cartes de visite Cartes de visite: Sweden Cabinet cards Cabinet cards: Sweden *** Royal family of Sweden Royal family of Sweden Cities Stockholm *** Anthropological Lotten von Düben: Anthropological studies of Lapland (1868) Helen Edlund: Swedish folk costumes *** Sápmi: Lapps (Sami or Saami) Pictorialism Pictorialism in Sweden Photographers Carl Jacob Malmberg: Sweden *** Henry B. Goodwin: Sweden: Stockholm ***
SwitzerlandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Switzerland Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Switzerland Costumes Costumes of Switzerland *** T. Richard: Swiss Costumes *** Adolphe Braun: Costumes de Suisse *** Photographers Francis Frith: Switzerland *** Hermann Krone: Säksische Schweiz - Saxon Switzerland (1857) *** Charles Soulier: Switzerland *** Auguste Rosalie Bisson: Switzerland (ca 1860) *** William England: Views of Switzerland [Series] *** Gabler Family: Switzerland Auguste Garcin: La Suisse [Vues de Suisse et de Savoie] (1855-1870) *** Adolphe Braun: Switzerland Albert Steiner: Switzerland *** Monuments The Lion of Lucerne (German: Löwendenkmal) *** Magazines Illustrated magazines in Switzerland
TurkeyIntroduction Introduction to photography in Turkey Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: Turkey Calotypes: Turkey Calotypes: Turkey Early photographers in Constantinople Constantinople and its early photographic studios Places Constantinople, The Architecture Constantinople - Istanbul: Fountains Constantinople - Istanbul: Santa Sophia Mosque Constantinople - Istanbul: Sultan Ahmed Mosque (The Blue Mosque) *** Constantinople - Istanbul: Süleymaniye Mosque *** Constantinople - Istanbul: Obelisk of Theodosius *** Constantinople - Istanbul: Dolmabahce Palace *** Studio portraits Studio portraits in Turkey Stereotypes Turkey: Women in ripose *** Occupationals Guillaume Berggren: Occupationals Turkey: Porters *** Modernization Turkey: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (1880-1893) Photographers Ernest de Caranza: Turkey James Robertson: Constantinople Robertson & Beato: Turkey: Constantinople - Istanbul *** John Kirk: Turkey: B.H. Renkioi Guillaume Berggren: Constantinople *** Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Constantinople (1862) Vassilaki Kargopoulo: Stereoviews *** Abdullah frères: Constantinople Pascal Sebah: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873 Sebah and Joaillier: Street life *** Sebah and Joaillier: Portraits *** Gulmez Freres: Turkey: Constantinople *** Rubellin: Turkey, Smyrna (Izmir) *** Photographic studios of Constantinople Abdullah frères: Backmarks Nicolas Andriomenos: Backmarks *** Pascal Sebah: Backmarks *** Conflict Album de la Société Ottomane de Secours aux Blessés Militaires, Guerre 1877-1878 *** Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
UKCalotypes Introduction to calotypes in the UK *** Henry Fox Talbot: The Pencil of Nature (1844-1846) Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) Hill & Adamson: Newhaven Daguerreotypes Daguerreotype manuals and instructions: Great Britain *** Richard Beard: Trade card Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Daguerreotypes: London Richard Beard: Daguerreotype portraits Royalty Royal support for industry, the arts and photography in Victorian Britain *** Documentary Philip Henry Delamotte: The Crystal Palace (1854-1855) Landscapes Types of early British landscape photographers John Dillwyn Llewelyn: Penllergare *** Roger Fenton: The Works of Roger Fenton - Landscapes (Frith - Reigate) (ca 1868) *** Francis Bedford: Great Britain *** Fred Judge: UK: Postcards Fay Godwin: British landscapes *** John Blakemore: Landscapes *** John Davies: Landscapes and cityscapes *** Notable photographers Roger Fenton: Great Britain Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits Mass Observation Mass Observation (Great Britain) Social issues Nick Hedges: Make Life Worth Living: Photographs for Shelter, 1969-72 Falklands War Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): Introduction Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): The Sinking of the ARA General Belgrano Political postcards Unemployment in Thatcher's Britain Photobooks British photobooks *** Journals and magazines Britain: Photography magazines and journals Illustrated magazines in the UK Camerawork (UK)
EnglandIntroduction Introduction to photography in England *** Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: London Photographers Benjamin Brecknell Turner: England, Worcesterhire, Bredicot (1852-1854) Robert Henry Cheney: The country houses and architecture of England (1850s) William Russell Sedgfield: England: Cathedrals, abbeys and minsters *** London Stereoscopic Company: Rural England Cundall & Delamotte: England: Fountains Abbey (1850s) *** Arthur James Melhuish: Windsor and Windsor Castle (1854-1856) *** John Wheeley Gough Gutch: England (1850s) *** Major-General Sir Henry James R.E., F.R.S.: Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland (1867) Victor Albert Prout: The Thames from London to Oxford in Forty Photographs (1862) Henry W. Taunt: The River Thames (1872) Francis Frith: Canterbury *** Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: Whitby *** G. Christopher Davies: The Scenery Broads and Rivers, Norfolk & Suffolk (ca 1883) *** Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: Portraits *** James Leon Williams: The Home and Haunts of Shakespeare (1892) *** Peter Henry Emerson: Marsh Leaves (1895) J. Payne Jennings: Book covers Bill Brandt: North Tony Ray-Jones: England John Bulmer: The North of England Paul Graham: A1: The Great North Road Chris Killip: Seacoal Places England: The Thames England: Windsor Castle England: Stonehenge Exhibitions A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895 (London)
LondonIntroduction Introduction to photography in London Diorama Contemporary accounts of the Diorama - Regent's Park. London (1830) Daguerreotypes Daguerreotypes: London Richard Beard: Trade card Richard Beard: Illustrations for Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Salt prints Henry Fox Talbot: London Documentary Exhibitions: 1851 Crystal Palace Philip Henry Delamotte: The Crystal Palace (1854-1855) B.L. Spackman: Construction at the 1862 International Exhibition at South Kensington, England (1859-1862) William Strudwick: London Roger Fenton: London Valentine Blanchard: London Thomas Barnardo: Children Reclaimed for LIfe John Thomson: Street Life in London The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London Frederick York: London and Neighbourhood (1865-1875) *** Harry Gedford Lemere: National Photographic Record and Survey (ca 1900) *** Travel guides and photography Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - London Henry W. Taunt: The River Thames (1872) Pictorialism Alvin Langdon Coburn: London (1909) Night Fred Judge: London: Night *** Morrison & Burdekin: London Night (1934) Places London: St. Paul's Cathedral London: Westminster Abbey *** London: Trafalgar Square London: Kew Gardens *** London: The Tower of London Streets Harold Chapman: London *** Robert Frank: London *** Wolfgang Suschitzky: London: Charing Cross Road (ca 1936) *** Roger Mayne: Youth Roger Mayne: Wapping Frederick Wilfred: London (ca. 1960s) ***
Northern IrelandThe Troubles (1960s-1998) Introduction to The Troubles (1960s-1998)
ScotlandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Scotland Photographers Henry Fox Talbot: Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) Hill & Adamson: Disruption of the Church of Scotland (1843) Hill & Adamson: A tree at Colinston [Midlothian, Scotland] Hill & Adamson: Edinburgh Hill & Adamson: A Series of Calotype Views - St. Andrews (1846) Hill & Adamson: Newhaven Hill & Adamson: Scotland: Roslin: Roslin Chapel - Rosslyn Chapel Ross & Thomson: Edinburgh (ca 1849) *** Thomas Keith: Edinburgh (1853-1856) *** John Kirk: Scotland (ca 1855) *** Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow James M. Gale: Glasgow Corporation Water Works: Photographic Views of Loch Katrine, and of Some of the Principal Works Constructed for Introducing the Water of Loch Katrine into the City of Glasgow by T. and R. Annan and Sons (1889) Archibald Burns: Edinburgh Archibald Burns: Cartes de visite of Scotland James Valentine (and sons): Scotland *** George Washington Wilson: Scotland Bill Brandt: Isle of Skye *** The Edinburgh Calotype Club Albums of the Edinburgh Calotype Club *** Places Scotland: Edinburgh Scotland: Edinburgh: Greyfriars cemetery Scotland: Glasgow *** Scotland: Melrose Abbey Scotland: Rosslyn Chapel / Roslin Chapel Scotland: Tay Bridge *** Scotland: Forth Bridge ***
WalesIntroduction Introduction to photography in Wales *** Photographers Calvert Richard Jones: Daguerreotype: Margam Castle, Wales John Dillwyn Llewelyn: Penllergare *** Roger Fenton: The Conway in the Stereoscope (1860) Francis Bedford: Wales Michael Jackson: Poppit Sands (2007-)
UkraineIntroduction Introduction to photography in Ukraine Photographers Roger Fenton: Ukraine *** John Darwell: Legacy - Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Vatican City - Holy SeeIntroduction Introduction to the Vatican City - Holy See St. Peters Italy: Rome: St. Peter's and the Vatican Popes Popes *** Photographers Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome Vatican Museum: Sculpture Vatican: Sculpture collection
Latin AmericaIntroduction Introduction to Latin American photography
North and Central AmericaPhotographers Eadweard Muybridge: The Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the cultivation and shipment of coffee
Antigua and BarbudaIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region
BahamasIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region
BarbadosIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region Introduction Introduction to photography in Barbados
BermudaIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region Albums Unidentified photographer: Album on Bermuda (ca. 1890)
CanadaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Canada Daguerreotypes Hugh Lee Pattinson: Niagara Falls Exploration and disaster Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848) Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin Paul-Émile Miot: Newfoundland and Cape Breton Paul-Émile Miot: Mik'maq (Micmac) Acadians, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (1859) Humphrey Lloyd Hime: Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition (1857-1858) Northwest Boundary Survey (1857-1862) / British North American Boundary Commission Fredrick Dally (1838-1914): Western Canada (ca 1870) Charles Horetzky: Surveyor and photographer of British Columbia *** Joseph Burr Tyrrell: Expedition to the barren lands (1893) Indigenous peoples Canada: Indigenous peoples Inuit William McFarlane Notman: Canada: First Nations *** Geraldine Moodie: Inuit William Notman, his studios and associates William Notman: Portraits William Notman: Photography. Things You Ought to Know (1866) William Notman: Photomontages William James Topley: Canadian landscapes *** William Notman: The construction of Victoria Bridge, Montreal, Canada (1854-1859) William Notman: Use of the painted exterior wall of his Montreal Studio as a background William Notman: Our birds of prey: or, The eagles, hawks, and owls of Canada By Henry G. Vennor ... With 30 photographic illustrations by Wm. Notman (1876) *** Stereoviews Strohmeyer & Wyman: Canada *** Portrait Hannah Maynard: Self portraits Documentary The Canadian Pacific Railway Life outdoors Alexander Henderson: Canadian landscapes Rosetti Photographic Studios: Canada: BC: Vancouver: Stanley Park (1912) *** William James Topley: Hunting and fishing in Canada Pictorialism Introduction to Pictorialism in Canada *** Canadian Pictorialism: Frederick George Ashton Early colour photography Early colour photography in Western Canada Modernism John Vanderpant: Canadian Modernism Visitors to Canada Paul Strand: Canada: Gaspé Peninsula *** The scale of place Emily Carr on Canada
CubaIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region Introduction Introduction to photography in Cuba Albums Lamarque (Santiago): Photograph album - Maj. General Leonard Wood in Cuba (ca. 1899) Photographers Walker Evans: Cuba Heroes of the Revolution Fidel Castro *** Ernesto Che Guevara *** Cold War (1945-1991) Cuban Missile Crisis *** Cuba viewed from the outside Cuba: As seen by external photographers ***
DominicaIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region
El Salvador Introduction to photography in El Salvador ***
GrenadaIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region
GuatemalaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Guatemala Photographers Eadweard Muybridge: The Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the cultivation and shipment of coffee Alfred Percival Maudslay: Guatemala: Quiriguá Aaron Siskind: Guatemala *** Itinerant photographers Ann Parker: Itinerant photographers of Guatemala (1970s) ***
HaitiEvents Unidentified photographer: [Eight Haitian “voodoo” devotees found guilty in February 1864 of the murder and cannibalism of a 12-year-old child] (1864) ***
HondurasIntroduction Introduction to photography in Honduras ***
JamaicaIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region Jamaicans Jamaicans Early photographers Adolphe Duperly: Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica (ca 1844) Griffith and Griffith: Jamaica ***
MexicoIntroduction Introduction to photography in Mexico Mexicans Exploration and expeditions John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863) Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Uxmal Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Mitla Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Chichen-Itza Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s) Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque Charles Betts Waite: Mexico: Mitla *** Carl Lumholtz: Mexico and the measurement of man (1890s) Teoberto Maler: Views of Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec ruins in Mexico Cartes de visite Jules Amiel: Mexican scenes Tipos Mexico: Introduction to "tipos" François Aubert: Tipos (Mexico) Merille: Tipos (Mexico) Cruces & Campa: Tipos (Mexico) *** Cityscapes Désiré Charnay: Views of Mexico City and environs (1858) *** Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Second Mexican Empire (1864-1867) François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian Mexican Revolution (1910-early 1920s) Mexican Revolution (1910-early 1920s): Introduction Manuel Ramos: Mexican Revolution *** Mexican folk art Fotoscultura (Mexican folk art) Snapshots Kenneth Forbes: Snapshots taken in Mexico (1936) *** Surrealism Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Good Reputation Sleeping (La Buena Fama Durmiendo) Photographers E. Leroy: Quelques vues du Mexique - Album (1864-1867) Alfred Saint-Ange Briquet: Mexico: Mexico Paul Strand: Mexico Edward Weston: Mexico *** Tina Modotti: Mexico Fritz Henle: Mexico *** Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexico *** John Sevigny: Ladies Bar Mexico viewed from the outside Mexico: As seen by external photographers *** ***
NicaraguaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Nicaragua *** Photographers Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua ***
PanamaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Panama *** Expeditions John Moran: Darien Expedition (1871) Eadweard Muybridge: The Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the cultivation and shipment of coffee Construction of the Panama Canal Panama Canal - First attempt (ca. 1885) *** Panama Canal - Second attempt (1904-1914)
Puerto RicoIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region Introduction Introduction to photography in Puerti Rico
Saint Kitts and NevisIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region
Saint LuciaIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region
Trinidad and TobagoIntroduction to the Carribbean Introduction to photography in the Caribbean and surrounding region Felix Morin: Trinidad ***
USAIntroduction Introduction to photography in the USA The Daguerreotype in America Joseph Saxton: Philadelphia Central High School for Boys and Pennsylvania State Arsenal Daguerreotypes: USA *** J.T. Zealy: African American slaves Daguerreotype manuals and instructions: USA *** Mathew B. Brady: Brady's Daguerrean Gallery *** Jeremiah Gurney: J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery Calotypes Calotypes and salt prints: USA George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) W. & F. Langenheim: Calotypes and salt prints Publications USA: Photography magazines and journals T.C. Porter: Impressions of America (1899) The American landscape Landscape photography in nineteenth century North America Landscape surveys of the American West Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869) U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869) Survey west of the 100th Parallel - George Montague Wheeler (1869-1879) Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874) River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872) The importance of railroads in the development of the American West Edward Bierstadt: Gems of American Scenery, consisting of Stereoscopic Views among the White Mountains (1878) Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross Utah: Devil's Slide Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA) Social commentary in America Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America Lewis W. Hine: Ellis Island Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits FSA - Farm Security Administration and related organizations FSA - Farm Security Administration: Photographers FSA - Farm Security Administration: Examples FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour Street photography Robert Frank: The Americans Henri Cartier-Bresson: USA *** Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places Perspectives on war and conflict in America Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Photomontage during the American Civil War (1861-1865) North American Indian Wars: Introduction North American Indian Wars: Portraits of Native American leaders Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872) North American Indian Wars: The photography of aftermath Native American: The search for the Vanishing Race and a vanishing world Photographers of Native Americans Korean War (1950-1953): Introduction Korean War (1950-1953): Photographers Photobooks American photobooks ***
AlabamaPhotographers Walker Evans: Alabama, Greensboro Walker Evans: USA: Alabama ***
AlaskaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Alaska Photographers Brodeck and Co.: Scenes in Alaska [Series] *** Eadweard Muybridge: Alaska [Series] I.W. Taber: Alaska (ca 1885) *** Frank Jay Haynes: Alaska Views (ca. 1891) Frank Jay Haynes: Yellowstone Park Scenery / Northern Pacific Scenery *** Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) Gold Rush Alaskan Gold Rush (1896-1899)
ArizonaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Arizona Photographers Laura Gilpin: New Mexico and Arizona E.C. LaRue: Landscapes in Utah and Arizona (1922) ***
ArkansasPhotographers Mike Disfarmer: Heber Springs portraits
CaliforniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in California The arrival of the masses Early photographers and studios of California Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) Arnold Genthe: Chinatown Sam Cheney Partridge (photographer) & W. B. Tyler (printer): Chinatown, San Francisco *** Locations California: Cliff House California: Point Lobos *** California: Yosemite Valley California: Yosemite: Yosemite Valley and the Merced River California: Yosemite: Glacier Point San Francisco: Chinatown *** The Great Outdoors Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA) Carleton Eugene Watkins: California, Mt. Shasta *** Carleton Eugene Watkins: Mining Claims, Butte County, Cal. Charles Leander Weed: California Alfred Hart: Central Pacific Railroad Eadweard Muybridge: Buena Vista, Sonoma I.W. Taber: [Logging and transportation of "World's Fair Big Tree, Mammoth Forest, California"] *** Seth Kinman: California hunter Rudolph D'Heureuse: The Mojave Road *** Transportation Eadweard Muybridge: California Dry Dock, at Hunters Point, San Francisco, California *** Capturing movement Eadweard Muybridge: Experimental establishments San Francisco Earthquake (1868) Earthquake: San Francisco (1868) San Francisco advertising album (1880) I.W. Taber: The Taber photographic album of principal business houses, residences and persons (1880) San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906) USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 USA, California, San Francisco earthquake and fire - 1906 - The photographers Pictorialism in California William Dassonville: Trees Anne Brigman: Pictorialist nudes Ansel Adams and the American perception of sublime nature Ansel Adams and Straight landscape photography Ansel Adams: Yosemite Ansel Adams: Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1946) Ansel Adams: Hills Brothers Coffee Can Ansel Adams Edward Weston Edward Weston: Point Lobos Edward Weston: Oceano Dunes Edward Weston: Trees *** The Great Depression Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco Internment in California Internment camps in the USA during the Second World War Street photography Joseph Selle's Fox Movie Flash: Mid-Century Street Vendor Photography Max Yavno: California Architecture Julius Shulman: Architecture Richard Misrach: San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge *** Ed Ruscha and the Artist's book Ed Ruscha: Self-published books *** Ed Ruscha: Royal Road Test *** Ed Ruscha: Every Building on Sunset Strip *** Ed Ruscha: Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles *** Interpretations of landscape Lewis Baltz: New Industrial parks near Irvine, California (1974) Robbert Flick: Trajectories *** Aerial photography of California William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia David Maisel: Oblivion Contemporary culture Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers Norma Quintana: Forage from Fire (2017-2020)
YosemiteIntroduction California: Yosemite Valley California: Yosemite Valley: Postcards *** Locations California: Yosemite: Yosemite Valley and the Merced River California: Yosemite: Glacier Point California: Yosemite: Bridal Veil Fall *** California: Yosemite: Yosemite Falls *** Photographers Carleton E. Watkins: The Yosemite Valley (California, USA) John P. Soule: California: Yosemite: Stereocards (ca 1870) *** I.W. Taber: Yosemite Valley, California *** Eadweard Muybridge: Yosemite Thomas Houseworth & Co: Calaveras Big Trees Francis Hendricks: Pirated stereoviews of Yosemite and vicinity *** George Fiske: Yosemite Gustavus Fagersteen: Yosemite *** Ansel Adams: Yosemite Ansel Adams: Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1946)
ColoradoIntroduction Introduction to photography in Colorado Photographers Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874) William Bell: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. / Colorado River Series [Stereoviews] *** Duhem & Bro.: Beauties of the Rocky Mountains. (1869-1879) [Series] *** Significant locations Colorado: Mountain of the Holy Cross Colorado: Garden of the Gods A Rephotographic Survey of the American West: Mountain of the Holy Cross
ConnecticutIntroduction Introduction to photography in Connecticut *** Wild flowers and orchids Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States Crime and punishment Death Row Prisoners Hanged in Connecticut 1894-1912
District of ColumbiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in the District of Columbia Photographers A.C. Kline: Jeff Davis "taking" Washington Thomas Smillie: Washington City, and Vicinity. [Series] ***
FloridaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Florida Characters Billy Bowlegs Photographers Elias A. Bonine: Stereocards: Florida Series *** George Barker: Florida *** Julian Dimock: Florida ***
GeorgiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Georgia *** Photographers George S. Cook: Advertisements ***
HawaiiIntroduction Introduction to photography in Hawaii Royalty Royal family of Hawaii *** Hawaiians Hawaiians *** Photographers Caroline Haskins Gurrey: Portraits from Hawaii
IllinoisIntroduction Introduction to photography in Illinois Commere Sears, Roebuck Co.: [Commercial operations] (1907) *** Photographers Aaron Siskind: Chicago
IndianaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Indiana Photographers Mike Disfarmer: Heber Springs portraits
IowaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Iowa *** Photographers Mrs. G.M. Bowen: Banner ladies
KansasIntroduction Introduction to photography in Kansas Photographers Alexander Gardner and others: Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad Joseph P. Babbitt: Engineers and Surveyors on the Kansas City Bridge (1869) *** Lori Nix: Accidentally Kansas Environmental Black Blizzards
KentuckyIntroduction Introduction to photography in Kentucky *** Photographers Charles Waldack, Proctor & O'Shaughnessy: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (1866) Mandeville Thum: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (ca 1876-1877) *** Ben Hains: Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity (1889) George Barker: Louisville Tornado (1890) *** Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater
LouisianaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Louisiana Storyville E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits
MainePhotographers Seneca Ray Stoddard: Boudoir cards of Maine *** Wild flowers and orchids Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States
MarylandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Maryland
MassachusettsIntroduction Introduction to photography in Massachusetts Astronomy J.A. Whipple: Daguerreotypes of the Sun and Moon (1852) Mount Auburn Cemetery Southworth and Hawes: Mount Auburn Cemetery Balloon flights S.A. King: Balloon flights Dighton Rock Massachusetts: Dighton Rock Civil engineering George M. Mowbray [stereoviews by H.D. Ward]: Tri-Nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel Submarine Blasting, Etc. (1872) Photographers James Wallace Black: Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It Josiah Johnson Hawes: Boston George K. Warren: MA, Cambridge including Harvard University *** Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States Joel Meyerowitz: Cape Cod ***
MichiganIntroduction Introduction to photography in Michigan ***
MinnesotaPhotographers Sumner & Son (Northfield): The Aftermath of the Northfield Raid (1876) Elmer & Tenney (Winona, Minn.): E. & T. Minnesota Snow - View Series of 1881 - Snow Blockade Views *** Photographic surveys Minnesota Survey: Six Photographers ***
MississippiPhotographers Walker Evans: USA: Mississippi ***
MissouriIntroduction Introduction to photography in Missouri Photographers Thomas Easterly: Daguerreotypes Thomas Easterly: The Destruction of Big Mound (1853-1854)
MontanaPhotographers Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment Joshua Crissman: Yellowstone National Park, illustrated by 122 views. (ca 1876) *** Margaret Bourke-White: Fort Peck Dam
NebraskaPhotographers Solomon D. Butcher: Nebraska: Sod houses and farms *** Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi Exposition (1898) Frank Rinehart and Adolph F. Muhr: Attendees of the 1898 Indian Congress Frank Rinehart and Adolph F. Muir: Native Americans When truth and fiction collide Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood
NevadaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Nevada *** Photographers Timothy O'Sullivan: The mines of Nevada (ca. 1868) *** Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. Alfred Hart: Central Pacific Railroad Alfred Hart: First Construction Train passing the Palisades, Ten Mile Cañon *** Thomas Houseworth & Co: Nevada ***
New HampshireIntroduction Introduction to photography in New Hampshire Daguerreotypes Samuel A. Bemis: The White Mountains of New Hampshire Photographers Clough & Kimball (Concord, N.H.): Views taken on The Summit of Mt. Washington during The Winter of 1870-71 H.S. Fifield: [Francona Flume and vicinity, NH] *** Edward Bierstadt: Gems of American Scenery, consisting of Stereoscopic Views among the White Mountains (1878) Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States
New JerseyIntroduction Introduction to photography in New Jersey Photographers J.P. Doremus: Passaic Falls & Vicinity [Series] ***
New MexicoIntroduction Introduction to photography in New Mexico Locations USA: New Mexico: Taos Photographers Laura Gilpin: New Mexico and Arizona Gábor Kerekes: Over Rosswell (2002-2005)
New YorkIntroduction Introduction to New York City Daguerrean galleries of New York Mathew B. Brady: Brady's Daguerrean Gallery *** Jeremiah Gurney: J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery Portrait factory on Broadway, New York Early salted paper prints Silas A. Holmes (attributed): New York (ca. 1855) Early photo-reportage in New York State George N. Barnard: Oswego Mills (1853) Charles Lyell on Niagara Falls (1845) Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853) Commercial photography New York facades shown in cabinet cards H.P. Smith; Judd & McLeish (photographers), 1878, Syracuse and Its Surrounding (1878) *** Pictorialism and the Photo-Secession in New York The influence of Alfred Stieglitz on American pictorialism Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, 291 Fifth Avenue, New York City Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession Alfred Stieglitz: New York at Night *** The links between Camera Work and contemporary art Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910) Paul Strand: New York *** Edward Steichen: The Flatiron Clarence H. White School of Photography Documentary studies of New York City Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers T.H. McAllister (American): Street life of New York (1898) *** Sampson Stereoscopic Co.: New York City (ca 1899) *** Alice Austen: Street Types of New York (1896) Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (25 March 1911) Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits Berenice Abbott: Changing New York Ilse Bing: New York (ca. 1936) Samuel Gottscho: New York (1930s) *** Lewis W. Hine: Empire State Building (1929-1931) Aaron Siskind: Harlem Document (1932-1940) Weegee: Street photography Walker Evans: New York *** Walker Evans: The subway portraits Esther Bubley: Greyhound Bus Station, NYC (1947) *** Introduction to New York City Photo League Helen Levitt: Children of New York Andreas Feininger: The architecture of New York André Kertész: Washington Square Bill Witt: New York City *** William Klein: New York *** Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street Saul Leiter: New York in colour Joel Meyerowitz: Street photography Tom Baril: The Architecture of New York *** Giacomo Brunelli: New York *** Documentary studies of New York State Milton Rogovin: Lower West Side, Buffalo, NY *** Milton Rogovin: Buffalo, NY *** Window dressing Kleinhans Co. (Buffalo, NY) *** Sites of New York City New York City: The Statue of Liberty New York City: The Brooklyn Bridge New York City: The Manhattan Bridge New York City: The Flatiron Building *** New York City: Chrysler Building *** New York City: The Empire State Building *** *** Sites of New York state Niagara Falls Gates Brothers: Watkins Glen, N.Y. (1865) *** W.T. Purviance: The Scenery of the Northern Central Railway [Series] (ca 1870) *** Christopher G. Gibbard: Views at Auburn, N.Y. (1870s) *** G.W. Baldwin: Gems of the Adirondacks [Series] Kempe & Gates: The Great Flood in Rochester, NY, St. Patrick's Day, Friday, March 17, 1865 *** September 11, 2001 World Trade Center (September 11, 2001) Kevin Bubriski: Pilgrimage: Looking At Ground Zero (2001) ***
North CarolinaIntroduction Introduction to photography in North Carolina North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development: Photographic catalog cards (1930s) *** Photographers Rufus Morgan: Illustrated Catalogue of Southern Scenery (ca 1869-1878) Albert Bardem: Construction of the Commercial National Bank, SW corner Martin and Wilmington Streets, Raleigh, NC (1912-1913) ***
North DakotaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Dakota Territory
OhioIntroduction Introduction to photography in Ohio Photographers Fontayne & Porter: The Cincinnati Panorama *** Abel Fletcher Charles Waldack: Ohio: Cincinnati (ca 1860) *** Margaret Bourke-White: Otis Steel Co. (1928-1929)
OklahomaIntroduction Early photographers of Oklahoma *** Photographers Larry Clark: Tulsa
OregonIntroduction Introduction to photography in Oregon Photographers Herrin Gallery: Columbia River Scenery, via The Dalles, Portland, and Astoria, Navigation Company Steamers ***
PennsylvaniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Pennsylvania Daguerreotypists Joseph Saxton: Philadelphia Central High School for Boys and Pennsylvania State Arsenal Robert Cornelius: Daguerreotype portraits Samuel Broadbent: Daguerreotype portraits Marcus Aurelius Root: Daguerreotype portraits *** Case study The Daguerreotype studios of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Photographers James Cremer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania *** A.H. Hemple: Centennial views of Philadelphia and Fairmount Park [Series] *** Events Johnstown Flood (1889) Railways Purviance: Purviance's Views, Penn'a Central Rail Road *** Industry Lufkin: Lufkin's Photographic Views - Oil Regions of Pennsylvania *** West & Waddell: Stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania Oil Regions. (1860-1890) *** H.T. Clauder: Scenery in and around Bethlehem, Pa. [Series] *** Documentary Walker Evans: USA: Pennsylvania *** W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project
Rhode IslandIntroduction Introduction to photography in Rhode Island Wild flowers and orchids Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States
South CarolinaIntroduction Introduction to photography in South Carolina Photographers J.T. Zealy: African American slaves Julian Dimock: African-Americans in South Carolina (1904-1905) *** Doris Ulmann: Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933)
South DakotaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Dakota Territory
TennesseeIntroduction Introduction to photography in Tennessee
TexasIntroduction Introduction to photography in Texas Photographers Robert Yarnall Ritchie: Commercial Modernist
UtahIntroduction Introduction to photography in Utah Mormon Photographers Alfred Hart: Central Pacific Railroad A.J. Russell: Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah (10 May 1869) William Bell: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Utah Series *** C.R. Savage: Native Americans *** E.C. LaRue: Landscapes in Utah and Arizona (1922) *** Significant locations Utah: Devil's Slide Utah: Cottonwood Canyon *** Photography-related manufacturing plants H.C. White Manfacturing Plant for Stereoscopes and StereoViews - North Bennington, Vermont, USA ***
VermontIntroduction Introduction to photography in Vermont *** Wild flowers and orchids Edwin Hale Lincoln: Wildflowers and orchids of the North-Eastern United States
VirginiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Virgina Tourists A photographer disturbs the tranquility of Mount Vernon (March 1859) Photographers Timothy O'Sullivan: A council of war at Massaponax Church, VA (21 May 1864) N.G. Johnson: Mt. Vernon (1880-1900) *** Luray Caverns Views, VA, USA *** Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album (1899-1900)
WashingtonIntroduction Introduction to photography in Washington *** Photographers Darius Kinsey: Forestry and logging in the American North-West (1906-1940) Darius Kinsey: Stereoviews of logging in to American North-West Events USA, Washington, Mount St. Helens eruption (1980)
West VirginiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in West Virginia ***
WisconsinIntroduction Introduction to photography in Wisconsin Photographers H.H. Bennett: Wisconsin Dells H.H. Bennett: Wisconsin Dells Events Ersly's Gallery (Whitewater, Wis.): Frostbite
WyomingIntroduction Introduction to photography in Wyoming *** Locations Wyoming: Dale Creek Crossing (1868-1901) Wyoming: Yellowstone Photographers Frank Jay Haynes: Yellowstone William Henry Jackson: The Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871 [Series] ***
OceaniaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Oceania Techniques Daguerreotypes: Pacific *** Photographers Paul-Émile Miot: Polynesia *** Allan Hughan: Indigenous peoples of New Caledonia George Smith: Stereoviews of Micronesia and Melanesia (1873) Robert Parry: Tahiti (1934)
AustraliaInformation requests Improving content on countries Introduction Introduction to photography in Australia Aborigines Aborigines Antoine Fauchery & Richard Daintree: Australia: Aborigines King Billy - A scandal in Tasmania John William Lindt: Aborigines Daniel Marquis: Aborigines *** Thomas J. Washbourne: Aboriginal Australians *** Charles Kerry: Aborigines Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition (1891-1892) Documentary Album of Sydney, N.S.W., Australia (1870) Unidentified photographer: The buildings of Sydney, N.S.W., Australia (1873) *** Pictorialism Pictorialism in Australia Photographers Walter Woodbury: Australian goldfields (1850s) Antoine Fauchery & Richard Daintree: Australia: Goldfields in Victoria *** Antoine Fauchery & Richard Daintree: Sun Pictures of Victoria (1858) *** Antoine Fauchery & Richard Daintree: Australia: Landscapes *** Edward Haigh: [Stereoviews of Australia] (early 1860s) *** W. Hetzer: [Stereoviews of Australia] (1860s) *** Richard Daintree: Images of Queensland (ca. 1870) Frederic Bonney: Views of the Colonies of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland including Momba Station and the township of Bourke (1870s) Photojournalism E.O. Hoppé: Australia David Moore: Australia David Moore: Migrant Woman (1966) Fine art photography Harry Nankin: Contact 2003-2004 Harry Nankin: Rain
FijiIntroduction Introduction to photography in Fiji Photographers Burton Brothers: Fiji *** Fijians Fijians Personalities Chief Cakobau of Bau, the self-proclaimed King of Fiji Tourism Tourism in Fiji ***
French PolynesiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in French Polynesia *** Tahitians *** Royal family of Tahiti *** Photographers Courret Hermanos: Tahiti Sophia Hoare: Tahitians Colonel Stuart Wortley & Lady Brassey: Tahiti, a series of photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley; with letterpress by Lady Brassey (1882) *** Roger Parry: Tahiti ***
Marshall IslandsAtomic bomb tests Marshall Islands: Atomic bomb tests
New ZealandIntroduction Introduction to photography in New Zealand Peoples Maoris Botany Herbert Boucher Dobbie: New Zealand Ferns. 148 Varieties (1880) Photographers Bruno L. Hamel: An Album of Photographic Views (1859) Burton Brothers: New Zealand Charles Spencer: New Zealand: Volcanic landscapes (1886) George Dobson Valentine: New Zealand *** Tanner Brothers: Maori Studies Josiah Martin: New Zealand: Maori
PalauPhotographers James Fee: The Peleliu Project
Papua New GuineaIntroduction Introduction to Papua New Guinea Photographers John William Lindt: British New Guinea Expedition led by led by Sir Peter Scratchley (1885) *** John William Lindt: Picturesque New Guinea (1887) George Brown: Fourth voyage to New Guinea *** Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea (1903-1904) Michael Rockefeller
In the Highlands of West Papua Irving Penn: New Guinea
SamoaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Samoa *** People of Samoa Samoans *** Robert Louis Stevenson on Samoa *** Photographers Thomas Andrew: Samoa Burton Brothers: Samoa ***
Solomon IslandsThe peoples of the Solomon Islands Solomon Islanders *** Photographers George Rose: Solomon Islands (1907) ***
TongaPhotographers Burton Brothers: Tonga ***
VanuatuIntroduction Introduction to photography in Vanuatu ***
South AmericaIntroduction Introduction to photography in South America *** Introduction to Latin American photography
ArgentinaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Argentina Argentinians Argentinians *** War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Esteban Garcia: War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Civil engineering Georges Poulet: Aurora Argentina (1890s) Photographers Horacio Coppola: Argentina: Buenos Aires Argentina's Dirty War Marcelo Brodsky: Buena Memoria / Good Memory (1996) *** Falklands - Malvinas War (1982) Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): Introduction Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): The Sinking of the ARA General Belgrano
BoliviaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Bolivia *** Mining Mining in Bolivia (1870s-1930s) *** Archaeology Arthur Posnansky: Archaeological remains at Tihuanaco, Bolivia (1903-1904) *** Photographers Courret Hermanos: Tipos (Bolivia) *** Roberto M. Gerstmann: Mining in Bolivia ***
BrazilIntroduction Introduction to photography in Brazil Early days Hercules Florence and the dawn of photography Daguerreotypes: Brazil *** Indigenous peoples Brazilians *** E. Thiésson: Brazil: Botocudo (1844) Marc Ferrez: Brazilian Indians *** Albert Frisch: The Amazon (1867-1871) Slavery in Brazil Royal support for photography Carneiro & Gaspar - painted by J. Courtois: Empress Teresa Cristina and Pedro II of Brazil Urbanization Marc Ferrez: Buildings of Brazil Industry Marc Ferrez: Coffee production in Brazil *** War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Esteban Garcia: War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Photographers Pierre Verger: Book covers: Brazil *** Jean Manzon: Book covers *** Marcel Gautherot: The architecture of Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia Alexandre Orion: Metabiotica
ChileIntroduction Introduction to photography in Chile The early days of photography in Chile Daguerreotypes: Chile HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868) Albums E. Maunoury: Andenken an Chile (1865) Documentary Luis Boudat Ducollier: Album de las Salitreras de Tarapaca (1889) The dictatorship of General Pinochet The dictatorship of Geneal Pinochet ***
ColombiaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Colombia *** Daguerreotypes Colombia: Daguerreotypes Photographers Anna K. Weaver
EcuadorPhotographers Camillus Farrand: Views in "El Ecuador" (The Equator.) [Series] (ca 1866-1868) Introduction Ecuadorians ***
GuyanaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Guyana *** Illustrated books George W. Bennett: An illustrated history of British Guiana compiled from various authorities (1866) ***
ParaguayWar of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Esteban Garcia: War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870)
PeruIntroduction Introduction to photography in Peru *** Early days Daguerreotypes: Peru *** Ethography Peruvians Photographers Henry Moulton: Rays of Sunlight from South America (1865) E. Maunoury: Peru Eugenio Courret: Peru Courret Hermanos: Peru Charles Kroehle: Campa-Indians, Rio Chuchuras, East Peru (1880s) Kröhle & Hübner: Anthropology in Peru (1891-1892) Vargas Brothers: Arequipa, Peru (1912-1929) Martin Chambi: Peru Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu Bennett Greig: Peru: Archaeological sites *** Edward Ranney: Archaeological sites of Peru *** Aaron Siskind: Peru *** Pierre Verger: Book covers: Peru Irving Penn: Peru Fotonovelas Peruvian Fotonovelas
SurinameIntroduction Introduction to photography in Suriname *** Cartes de visite Unidentified photographer: Suriname: Cartes de visite (1870s) ***
UruguayIntroduction Introduction to photography in Uruguay War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Esteban Garcia: War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Photographers Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875) Cities Luis Pastorino: Fotografias de Montevideo (1880) ***
VenezuelaIntroduction Introduction to photography in Venezuela *** Historical events The Venezuelan Crisis (1902-1903) *** Photographers Jean Chaffanjon: The Venezuelan Amazon Keystone View Company: Venezuela (1920s) ***
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