History of photography

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.

Pictorialism is an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of creating an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible br

the earliest known surviving photograph produced in the camera obscura by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

thumb|A photogram of a number of photography-related objects thumb|Photogram with soil and plants A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light.

the invention and development of the camera and the creation of permanent images

right|thumb|A cyanotype of algae by 19th century botanist Anna Atkins thumb|Sir John Herschel (1842) Experimental cyanotype of an unidentified engraving of a lady with a harp, Museum of the History of Science right|thumb|Architectural drawing blueprint, Canada, 1936 thumb|Cyanotype postcard, Racine, Wis., The cyanotype (from , and , ) is a slow-reacting, photographic printing formulation sensitive to a limited near-ultraviolet and blue light spectrum, the range of 300 nm to 400 nm, known as UVA radiation. It produces a monochrome, blue-coloured print on a range of supports, and is o

photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen

photography that takes place at night, typically outside

(1749-1856) American soldier and centenarian

Swiss chemist (1844–1898)

French MD, zoologist & scholar (1834-1910)

cinematographer

photograph made from a hand-drawn negative

1920s photography and art movement

woman working as photographer

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explosive for illumination

possibly the earliest-born person ever photographed, also the last slave to be manumitted in New York

thumb|A home-processed Dufaycolor 6x6 cm Reversal film|transparency, 1956|alt=An elderly man, wearing a grey coat and holding a black hat sits in a garden in autumn.

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French photographic club

American photography magazine

Finnish photographer and businessman (1891-1978)