| 1888 | North America • USA | Frederick Ives announces the invention of the crossline halftone screen. The halftone allows the mass reproduction of photographs in newspapers and magazines. Ives failed to patent the process and made no financial reward from his labors. |
| 1888 | North America • USA | George Eastman patents his camera (U.S. patent No, 388,850). (4 September 1888) |
| 1888 | North America • USA
| Kodak No.1 box camera is marketed by George Eastman (Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co.) and popular amateur photography begins. |
| 1889 | Europe • Great Britain
| Peter Henry Emerson publishes Naturalistic Photography for students of the art. (London, Sampson Low & Co.) that proposes photography should go outside the confines of the studio to record the natural world in an artistic style. His work on the everyday life in the Norfolk Broads in eastern England clearly shows his approach. |
| 1889 | North America • USA
| The Johnstown Flood kills over 2,209 people in southwestern Pennsylvania when the South Fork Dam bursts. George Barker was one of those who photographed the aftermath. (31 May 1889) |
| 1889 | Europe • Italy | First issue of the Bullettino della Società Fotografica Italiana and it continues until December 1914. (October 1889) |
| 1890 | North America • USA
| Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives on the New York slums one of the first books of social commentary backed with photographic evidence. It includes seventeen halftone photographs and a further nineteen hand drawings based upon photographs. [Read about]
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| 1890 | Europe • Great Britain | Peter Henry Emerson publishes his bitter The death of Naturalistic Photography that argues that photography is a "very limited art" and repudiates his earlier work. [Read about] |
| 1890 | North America • USA | Illustrated American, the first picture magazine planned to use photographs, goes to press made possible by perfection of the halftone printing process. |
| 1891 | Europe
| Professor Gabriel Lippmann introduces a color process but it never achieves popularity due to its complexity. |
| 1892 | Europe • Great Britain | George Davison and Alfred Maskell found the Linked Ring Brotherhood in Great Britain. The fifteen original members are Bernard Alfieri, Tom Bright, Arthur Burchett (1875-1913), Henry Hay Cameron (1856-1911, son of Julia Margaret Cameron), Lyonel Clark, Francis Cobb, George Davison, Henry E. Davis, Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863-1906), Alfred Maskell, Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) and his son Ralph Winwood Robinson (1862-1942), Francis Seyton Scott, Henry Van der Weyde and William Willis (1841-1923). (27 May 1892) [Read about] |
| 1893 | Europe • Great Britain | The Stereoscopic Society is founded. |
| 1893 | North America • USA | Cornele B. Adams issued a patent for "Method of Photogrammetry" which used two aerial photographs of the same locality taken from a tethered balloon. (12 December 1893) |
| 1893 | Europe • Germany | The first exhibition of photography held at the Hamburg Kunsthalle organized by the director Prof. Alfred Lichtwark. |
| 1893 | Europe • Great Britain | The Photographic Salon is the first show of the Linked Ring Brotherhood founded in Great Britain. (November 1893) [Read about] |
| 1894 | Europe • France
| The Photo-Club of Paris ('le Photo Club de Paris') holds its first exhibition Première exposition d'art photographique. (1 October 1894) [Read about]
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| 1895 | Europe • France
| The Lumière Brothers , Auguste (1862-1954) and Louis (1864-1948), hold the first public demonstration of moving pictures at the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris with their Cinematograph. (28 December 1895) |
| 1895 | Europe • Germany
| Professor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , Professor of Physics and Vice Chancellor of the University of Würzburg, discovers rays that pass through seemingly solid objects, these are later called x-rays. (8 November 1895) [Read about] |
| 1895 | Europe • France
| The Photo-Club of Paris ('le Photo Club de Paris') holds its second exhibition Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique. [Read about]
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| 1895 | Europe • UK
| The Photographic Salon in London holds its third salon but it is the first where a deluxe publication is issued. Walter L. Colls, a master printer and member of The Linked Ring Brotherhood, prints the 20 photogravures. In October 1897 the first issue of Camera Notes is published by The New York Camera Club with Alfred Stieglitz as editor and it praises the portfolio as "one of which not only the Salon and Mr. Colls, but photography itself may be proud."
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