| 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) |
| 1917 | North America • USA
| The photographs of Paul Strand are published in Camera Work, Number XLIX, Number L. |
| 1917 | 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. |
| 1917 | Europe • Russia | Narkompros (the 'People's Commissariat for Education') is founded and puts publishing, media and dissemination under State control. |
| 1917 | Europe • Great Britain
| Alvin Langdon Coburn takes his Vortograph photographs that are among the first that play with light and are intentionally abstract. |
| 1918 | Europe • Switzerland | Christian Schad starts making abstract photographs by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing it. Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada, calls them Schadographs but they come under the general heading of photograms. |
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