| 1926 | Europe • France | A surrealist exhibition organized by Man Ray opens at the Galerie Surréaliste, 16 rue Jacques Callot, Paris. (26 March 1926) |
| 1926 | Europe • France | An uncredited photograph by Eugène Atget is published in the Surrealist magazine La Révolution surréaliste (no. 7). |
| 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.
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| 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) |
| 1929 | Europe • France
| Man Ray and Lee Miller rediscover the Sabattier effect and call it solarization. They start to use it for artistic photographs. |
| 1929 | Europe • France
| Photographs of the slaughterhouses at La Villette in Paris by Eli Lotar are published in the Surrealist publication Documents, (issue 6). |
| 1929 | North America • USA | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre takes place in Chicago and the bloody remains are photographed by numerous news photographers. (14 February 1929) |
| 1929 | North America • USA
| Edward Steichen publishes Steichen The Photographer with text by Carl Sandburg (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1929). |
| 1929 | Europe • Germany
| August Sander publishes Antlitz der Zeit with an introduction by Alfred Döblin (Munich: Transmare and Kurt Wolff, 1929). |
| 1930 | North America • USA
| Ansel Adams publishes Taos Pueblo. |
| 1930 | Europe • France
| Eugène Atget publishes Atget Photographe de Paris (New York: E. Weyhe, 1930). |
| 1930 | Europe • France
| Claude Cahun publishes Aveux non Avenus (Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1930). |
| 1930 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Frantisek Drtikol publishes Zena ve Svetle [Women in Light] (Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930). |
| 1930 | Europe • Russia
| In Russia the photomagazine USSR in Construction ('SSSR na stroike') is published. The use of photomontage and collage by photographers such as Alexander Rodchenko influences graphic design.
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| 1930 | Europe • France | Film stills for Luis Bunuel's surrealist film L'Âge d'or published in Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution (issue 1). (June 1930) |
| 1931 | Europe • Great Britain
| Bill Brandt moves to London. |
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