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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.
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.
Alberton Cricket Club is in Zipf Park at 88 Alberton Road [ 28 ] There is a boat ramp at the northern end of Alberton Road on the south bank of Logan River ( 27°41′37″S 153°15′39″E / 27.6937°S 153.2608°E / -27.6937; 153.2608 ( Alberton Road boat
Friends of Photography was a nonprofit organization started by Ansel Adams and others in 1967 to promote photography as a fine art. During its existence the organization held at least 330 photography exhibitions at its galleries in Carmel and San Francisco, California, and it published a lengthy series of monographs under the name Untitled.The organization was formally dissolved in 2001.
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 Royal Photographic Society, then known as the Photographic Society of Great Britain, became central in acting as a coordinating body for camera clubs and photographic societies in Britain, and the Society was frequently referred to as the 'parent body' in its relationship to other British photographic organisations.
Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, social documentary photography, war photography, street photography and celebrity photography) by having a rigid ethical framework which demands an honest and impartial approach that tells a story in strictly journalistic terms.
The RA Photo Club was founded in 1939 as the "RA Camera Club", its first chairperson being Doug White of the National Film Board of Canada and met at 30 Rideau St. near the Government Conference Centre (then Union Station). In 1951 color slides were introduced and prints began to be exhibited in local theatres and department stores.