| 1988 | North America • USA
| Joel Sternfeld publishes American Prospects.
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| 1988 | North America • USA | The Daguerreian Society (3043 West Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15216-2460, USA - www.daguerre.org) is founded to promote the study of all aspects of Daguerreotypes. |
| 1988 | North America • USA | The Piss Christ photograph of Andres Serrano encourages Senator Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina) to argue against federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. |
| 1989 | Europe • Spain | Joan Fontcuberta and Pere Formiguera publish Fauna. |
| 1990 | North America • USA | Allen Ginsberg publishes Allen Ginsberg Photographs.
Allen Ginsberg Photographs
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| 1990 | North America • USA | An exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Cincinnati Art Museum is closed down when the work is accused of being obscene. Although the Museum is cleared there is a shift towards censorship in the arts. |
| 1991 | North America • USA | Lothar Baumgarten publishes Carbon.
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| 1992 | North America • USA | Kodak releases the Photo-CD, it is the first popular method of storing digital images that is available to the public. |
| 1992 | North America • USA | The JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) image compression standard for digital images is published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. As it is non-proprietary and has a high compression rate it becomes the preferred means for transmitting photographic images over the Internet. (February 1992) |
| 1994 | Europe • Germany | Christian Boltanski publishes Menschlich. |
| 1994 | North America • USA | Time magazine is critised for placing a digitally altered photograph of O.J. Simpson on the front cover. |
| 1994 | North America • USA | Jock Sturges publishes nude photographs of children in his book Radiant Identities (Aperture) - the book creates considerable controversy with opinions divided between those arguing for freedom of expression whilst others argue that it is child pornography.
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| 1995 | North America • USA | Richard Prince publishes Adult Comedy Action Drama. |
| 1996 | North America • USA | David LaChapelle publishes LaChapelle Land.
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