| 1907 | Europe • France
| Louis Lumičre (1864–1948) markets the first commercial three color photography process - Autochrome Lumičre. 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 Lumičre 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 Lumičres, 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. |
| 1908 | North America • USA | Five years after the first flight of the secretive Wright Brothers photographer Jimmy Hare and writer Arthur Ruhl take the first news photograph of the plane in powered flight for Collier‘s. The plane covers two miles in two minutes and fifty seconds. |
| 1908 | North America • USA
| Lewis W. Hine begins a series of photographs for the National Child Labor Committee. These images of small children performing dangerous factory work and other jobs led to congressional legislation to enforce child labor laws. |
| 1908 | Europe • France | Gabriel Lippmann awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his method of reproducing colors in photography, based on the interference phenomenon. |
| 1909 | Europe • Great Britain
| Alvin Langdon Coburn publishes London.
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| 1910 | North America • USA | Photographic show at the Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, USA) is one of the first where photographs are shown as art in an Art Gallery. The gallery also purchased 12 pictures for the collection.
Alfred Stieglitz wrote to Ernst Juhl (6 January 1911):
"This exhibition was without doubt the most important that has been held anywhere so far. We won't be seeing anything like it in the near future. Only very select prints, in most cases the best of their kind that exist, and with the exception of 20 gravures which are in their way originals, only original prints" [were shown]. |
| 1910 | North America • USA | William Warnecke photographs the shooting of New York Mayor William Gaynor by J.J. Gallagher on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. (9 August 1910) |
| 1910 | Antarctica
| Herbert Ponting accompanies Captain Scott's second South Pole expedition. |
| 1912 | Asia • Japan | The Aiyu Photography Club is founded in Nagota. |
| 1914 | Antarctica
| Frank Hurley accompanies Sir Earnest Shackleton's second Antarctic expedition. |
| 1914 | North America • USA | The USS Mississippi drops anchor at Naval Shipyard Pensacola to survey the area for a Naval Aeronautical Station during the early days of flight. Walter Leroy Richardson, who joined the US Navy in 1911, takes the photographs and goes on to become the US Navy's first official photographer. (20 January 1914) |
| 1915 | North America • USA
| The lake steamer Eastland rolls over in Chicago with the loss of 844 passengers and crew. (24 July 1915) |
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