| 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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| 2000 | Europe • Finland | The Finnish Museum of Photography opens in Helsinki. (February 2000) |
| 2000 | Europe • Denmark | The National Museum of Photography opens in Copenhagen as a part of the Royal Library. (May 2000) |
| 2000 | Global | The first message is posted to the Yahoo! Groups PhotoHistory list by Larz F. Kremer and is a request on the restoration of Daguerreotypes. (31 December 2000) |
| 2001 | North America • USA | Andrew Roth publishes The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. This book is the first to examine in detail the photographic books that are such an essential part of photographic publishing. In itself it is designed to be a collectors item by having a special edition of 101 Deluxe copies and a further 500 Limited edition copies.
Book of 101 Books, The: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century
Andrew Roth (Editor); Vince Aletti; Richard Benson; Jeffrey Fraenkel (Contributor); & Daido Moriyama (Contributor) |  |
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| 2001 | Europe • France | The Photo Agency VII is founded by the photojournalists Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer. Their intention being to document conflict - environmental, social and political, both violent and non-violent - to produce an unflinching record of the injustices created and experienced by people caught up in the events they describe. (9 September 2001) |
| 2003 | Global
| The camera aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft orbiting Mars takes the first photograph of Earth, the moon and Jupiter as seen from another planet. (8 May 2003) |
| 2003 | Europe • UK | A daguerreotype taken in 1842 of the Athenian Temple on the Acropolis in Greece by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey sells for $922,488 at Christie's in London setting a world record for a photograph. (20 May 2003) |
| 2003 | Global | A quarter-plate daguerreotype from Mike Robinson and Spring Hurlbut's recent series The Visitation is awarded a second prize in the 2003 Photo Review International Competition. This is probably the first Daguerreotype to win a prize for well over one hundred years and is indicative of the increasing interest in alternative processes. |
| 2004 | North America • USA
| A complete bound set of The North American Indian including all of the text volumes and all of the photogravure portfolios by Edward Curtis sells for $1,416,000 with the buyer's premium included. This is the most expensive single auction lot for a photographic work up to that date. (12 October 2004) |
| 2005 | North America • USA | A 1989 photograph of the Marborough cowboy by Richard Prince is sold in a Contemporary Art auction at Christie's in New York for $1,248,000 creating a new world record for a photograph. (8 November 2005) |
| 2005 | Global | Luminous-Lint website is announced by Alan Griffiths on the Yahoo PhotoHistory list (message #6471). Carl Mautz had posted the first notice about the existence of Luminous-Lint on Dec 6th on the same list (message #6457). (8 December 2005) |
| 2006 | North America • USA
| A 1904 photograph of The Pond-Moonlight taken in Long Island by Edward Steichen sells at Sotheby's in New York for $2,928,000 including the buyers premium. At the same sale a photograph of the hands of Georgia O'Keeffe taken by Alfred Stieglitz sells for $1,472,000 and a nude portrait of her, also by Stieglitz, for $1,360,000. The images were part of the Gilman Paper Co. collection acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art but they already had duplicates and so they were put up for sale. (15 February 2006) |
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