History of photography: Julia Margaret Cameron
As a woman, I naturally celebrate a little when I look back in the history of photography and see other women who have made significant
As a woman, I naturally celebrate a little when I look back in the history of photography and see other women who have made significant
National Photography month was, officially recognized by Congress in 1987. Let’s take this month to celebrate photography as an art form, the history of photography,
Steve Glynn makes portraits using the tintype process (learn more about tintypes in this article) and a large format camera. This combination is striking —
The Stieglitz Group was an essential number of photographers who pioneered then promoted the pictorial style of photography. (Check out my article on pictorialism here!)
Camera Work In 1902 Stieglitz, along with Joseph T. Kelley launched Camera Work, a quarterly publication that supported the ideals of the Photo-Secession movement with
In the late 1800’s photography was still basically like a baby giraffe learning how to get up and walk for the first time. Photography didn’t
Since the beginning, everyone wanted color photographs. Images being black and white only was a chief complaint about photography. Initially, there were a few “successes”;
Photography moves from wet plates to dry There’s no denying that the wet plate process was not easy. It took considerable time, planning, effort, money,
The introduction of the Kodak camera and it’s ensuing popularity started an entirely new school of thought in photography; the snapshot. Previously, “snapshot” was used
In the early life of photography, cameras (and all the gear that came with them) were large, heavy, and cumbersome. The wet plate processes, the
In the late 1800’s the world was beginning to take shape into something more of what it looks like today. Industrialization was coming to cities
As long as photography remained chained to any sort of wet plate process, photographers found themselves encumbered by massive hardships in order to “take the