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. |
1921 | Asia • Japan | Fukuhara Shinzo, Kakefuda Isao and Otaguro Motoo put on the Art Photography Exhibition at the Shimeido Gallery and attack traditional art photography. (July 1921) |
1921 | North America • USA
| Alfred Stieglitz - An Exhibition of Photography by Alfred Steiglitz - 145 prints, over 128 of which have never been publicly shown, dating from 1886-1921 opens at the Anderson Galleries (Park Avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York). It is an early retrospective of his work. (2 July 1921) |
1922 | Europe • France | Man Ray publishes Les Champs délicieux with an introduction by his friend Tristan Tzara. The book includes his Rayograms. |
1923 | Europe • Germany | László Moholy-Nagy starts teaching a photography course at the Bauhaus which is a innovative center for graphic and product design. |
1924 | Europe • Germany | The expression Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) is used to describe neo-realist painters by Gustav Hartlaub (Director of the Mannhreim Kunsthalle). The term becomes applied to a group of photographers including Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966), August Sander (1876-1964) Helmar Lerski (1871-1956) and Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1952). Each of them publishes seminal photographic books in the 1920s and Germany becomes one of the leading countries for the integration of photographs into graphic design. |
1925 | North America • USA
| Anatol Josepho a Siberian immigrant to America invents the Photobooth. |
1925 | Europe • Germany | Leica uses the 35mm still format that became the most widely used film standard |
1925 | Europe • Germany
| László Moholy-Nagy publishes Malerei Fotografie Film - Bauhausbücher 8 (Munich: Albert Langen, 1925). This book embraces all the new ways in which photographs can be used and combined with typography for advertising and commercial applications. |
1926 | Europe • France | An uncredited photograph by Eugčne Atget is published in the Surrealist magazine La Révolution surréaliste (no. 7). |
1926 | Europe • France | A surrealist exhibition organized by Man Ray opens at the Galerie Surréaliste, 16 rue Jacques Callot, Paris. (26 March 1926) |
1927 | Europe
| Germaine Krull publishes Métal with an introduction by Florent Fels" (Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, 1928) |
1927 | Europe • UK | Violet K. Blaiklock (?-1961) and Agnes Beatrice Warburg, UK, (1872-1953) co-found the Colour Group of The Royal Photographic Society (UK). Prior to this they had experimented with many different forms of color photography, inventing the Warburytype. |
1927 | North America • Canada | The first exhibition of Pictorial photography is held in Vancouver (B.C.). |
1928 | Europe • Germany
| Karl Blossfeldt publishes Urformen der Kunst. Title | Lightbox | Checklist |
1928 | Europe • Germany
| Albert Renger-Patzsch publishes Die Welt ist Schön (Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928) |
1928 | North America • USA
| The execution of Ruth Synder by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison is secretly photographed by Tom Howard and is published in an extra edition of the Daily News: New York‘s Picture Newspaper. (12 January 1928) |