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Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism.He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs.
The District Council of Queenstown and Alberton, established in 1864, was the first local government body in Alberton. From 1898, following the district council's annexation by the then- Town of Port Adelaide , Alberton was a prominent township at the south eastern end of the Town, which was proclaimed as a city in 1901.
In the late 1950s, the photography clubs engaged in “collective production”. Club members would decide upon themes, usually social issues, and designate members to shoot different sites according to those themes. [1] The approach was quite a contrast with the conventional individualism of amateur photographers of the time.
West 37th Street Entrance. The Camera Club of New York was founded in 1884 as a photography club. Though the Club was created by well-to-do "gentlemen" photography enthusiasts seeking a refuge from the mass popularization of the medium in the 1880s, it accepted its first woman as a member, Miss Elizabeth A. Slade, in 1887, only four years after its inception, and later came to accept new ideas ...
The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as George Eastman House and the International Museum of Photography and Film, [3] [4] [5] is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography [6] [7] and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.
Sam Abell's love of photography began due to the influence of his father who was a geography teacher who ran a photography club. In his book The Photographic Life, Abell mentions a photograph he made while on an outing with his father, a photograph that subsequently won a small prize in a photo contest. He credits that prize as being a major ...
A well-known landmark of the city, ABC STORE, was established in 1943 on Pieter Uys Avenue, Alberton North, and is still trading today as a general store specializing in school uniforms. Alberton was incorporated into the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality governing the East Rand in the year 2000 and celebrated its centenary year in 2005.
Ansel Adams: Half Dome, Apple Orchard, Yosemite trees with snow on branches, April 1933 Exhibition poster. Group f /64 or f.64 was a group founded by seven American 20th-century San Francisco Bay Area photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharply focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western (U.S.) viewpoint.