Europe • France
| Man Ray and Lee Miller rediscover the Sabattier effect and call it solarization. They start to use it for artistic photographs. |
Europe • France
| Photographs of the slaughterhouses at La Villette in Paris by Eli Lotar are published in the Surrealist publication Documents, (issue 6). |
Europe • Germany
| August Sander publishes Antlitz der Zeit with an introduction by Alfred Döblin (Munich: Transmare and Kurt Wolff, 1929). |
North America • USA
| Edward Steichen publishes Steichen The Photographer with text by Carl Sandburg (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1929). |
North America • USA | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre takes place in Chicago and the bloody remains are photographed by numerous news photographers. (14 February 1929) |