History of Photography: Henry Peach Robinson
Last time, we talked about how Rejlander pushed the envelope with the conventional view of photography as art (thus far). There was another, slightly younger,
Last time, we talked about how Rejlander pushed the envelope with the conventional view of photography as art (thus far). There was another, slightly younger,
The battle for photography’s place in the fine art world is a road that is long and seemingly never ending at times, even today. In
Is photography art? This seemingly simple question is anything but. Since the earliest days of photography, critics and photographers themselves have questioned if it’s purely
It’s odd to think of war as a way for photographers to hone their skills. In the Spring of 1861 when the American Civil War
As photography evolved, one theme remained fairly constant in the public’s opinion: seeing is believing. People generally regarded photographic prints as evidence of truth and
Between the 1850’s and 1880’s two men, Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey both were using photography to further the study of locomotion (or movement) of
Stereostopic photography is yet another blip in the history of photography where the photograph was still working to find its’ true identity. It’s based on
In my last History of Photography article, I talked about the wet plate, or collodion process and how it was quickly adopted as the status
After Talbot introduced the calotype (see my previous article here), the world was in search of something photographic in between the calotype’s unique paper characteristics
In my last history of photography article, I talked about William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the Calotype. Here, I want to explore how
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist and scholar in the early 1800’s. Although he was a contemporary of Daguerre, his contributions to photography
As is often the case with history, it seems that time moves slowly until it explodes in a flurry of invention and then seemingly all