| 1897 | Europe • France
| The Photo-Club of Paris ('le Photo Club de Paris') holds its fourth exhibition Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie. (13 April 1897) [Read about]
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| 1897 | Europe • Austria
| Franz Goerke (1856-1931) edits and publishes Die Kunst in der Photographie. This is the first year of this seminal publication. [Read about]
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| 1897 | North America • USA
| Alfred Stieglitz publishes Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies.
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| 1897 | Europe • Great Britain
| John Benjamin Stone founds the National Photographic Record Association to preserve the folklore and customs of England. |
| 1898 | North America • USA | Reverend Hannibal Goodwin (1822-1900) is granted a patent (U.S. 610,861) for "photographic pellicle and process of producing same ... especially in connection with roller cameras" in simple terms celluloid photographic film. (13 September 1898) |
| 1900 | Europe • Great Britain | Fred Holland Day organizes the Royal Photographic Society exhibition of The New School of American Photography held in London. This was the first showing in Europe of the immense progress that had been made in American pictorialist photography. [Read about] |
| 1900 | North America • USA | The First mass-marketed camera, the Brownie, costs $1. |
| 1901 | Europe • France | Fred Holland Day shows the The New School of American Photography exhibition that had been shown in London in 1900 to the Photo Club de Paris. [Read about] |
| 1902 | North America • USA | Alfred Stieglitz founds the Photo-Secession movement in the USA. [Read about] |
| 1902 | North America • USA
| Alfred Stieglitz founds Camera Work. [Read about]
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| 1903 | North America • USA | National Geographic publishes its first halftone of a woman in a rice field in the Philippines. |
| 1903 | Europe • France
| The Autochrome is patented by the Lumière Brothers and when marketed in 1907 it becomes the first widely used color process. (17 December 1903) |
| 1904 | Global | The International Society of Pictorial Photographers is founded with James Craig Annan as the first president. He is the son of Thomas Annan (1829-1887) and a contributor to Camera Work. |
| 1904 | Europe • France | The early color Autochrome process is demonstrated to the Academy of Science. (30 May 1904) |
| 1905 | North America • USA
| Alfred Stieglitz opens the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York. Through a series of galleries Stieglitz exhibits photography and fine art to the American public. He champions the connections between photography and the accepted fine arts of sculpture and painting by exhibiting the works of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Auguste Rodin. |
| 1907 | Europe • France
| Louis Lumière (1864–1948) markets the first commercial three color photography process - Autochrome Lumière. The process had been patented in 1904 but it was only in 1907 that the plates were available from their factory at Lyon.
Alfred Stieglitz, wrote in a letter from Munich (July 1907) "All are amazed at the remarkably truthful color rendering; the wonderful luminosity of the shadows…, the endless range of grays; the richness of the deep colors. In short, soon the world will be color-mad, and Lumière will be responsible."
In an article published in the October 1907 issue of Camera Work, Stieglitz wrote: "Color photography is an accomplished fact. The seemingly everlasting question whether color would ever be within the reach of the photographer has been definitely answered. The answer the Lumières, of France, have supplied. For fourteen years, it is related, they have been seeking it. Thanks to their science, perseverance, and patience, practical application and unlimited means, these men have finally achieved what many of us had looked upon practically as unachievable…."
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| 1907 | North America • USA
| Edward Sheriff Curtis publishes The North American Indian: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, Volume One. It is the most sumptuous study of any ethnic group ever produced and between 1907 and 1930 twenty volumes are published largely funded by the banker J.P. Morgan and his estate.
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| 1907 | Europe | Dr Arthur Korn sends picture facsimiles between London, Paris and Berlin. |
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