Europe • Great Britain
| Alvin Langdon Coburn takes his Vortograph photographs that are among the first that play with light and are intentionally abstract. |
Europe • Russia | Narkompros (the 'People's Commissariat for Education') is founded and puts publishing, media and dissemination under State control. |
North America • USA
| The photographs of Paul Strand are published in Camera Work, Number XLIX, Number L. |
North America • USA | Alfred Steiglitz publishes the last issue of Camera Work. During the years it was published (1903-1917) it was the most influential and well produced of any photographic magazine. |