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Photographer Location Format Notes Cited survey(s) Old Faithful: 1870 William Henry Jackson: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States Mammoth-format plate [s 2] Great Falls of the Yellowstone River: 1871 William Henry Jackson Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States Albumen print [s 4] Chicago Fire: October 1871 Unknown
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
List of street photographers; List of women photographers; List of Jewish American photographers; List of most expensive photographs; List of museums devoted to one photographer; Wikipedian Photographers; Photographers of the American Civil War; Photographers of the African-American civil rights movement; Photography in the Philippines ...
19th-century photographers who were among the first in developing the medium; generally this means people working prior to 1880. The category should not be used for later photographers who help to advance particular aspects or genres of photography.
1861 – James Clerk Maxwell presents a projected additive color image of a multicolored ribbon, the first demonstration of color photography by the three-color method he suggested in 1855. It uses three separate black-and-white photographs taken and projected through red, green and blue color filters. The projected image is temporary but the ...
Marie al-Khazen (1899–1983) was a Lebanese photographer active in the 1920s; the photographs she created are considered to constitute a valuable and unique record of their time and place. [ 43 ] Elise Forrest Harleston (February 8, 1891 – 1970) was an early African-American photographer who set up a studio in Charleston, South Carolina, in ...
Other photographs are excerpts from larger historic collections, such as Roger Fenton's and Alexander Gardner's respective groundbreaking documentations of the Crimean War and American Civil War. Margin notes document the circumstantial background of many photographs, as well as instances where the images have been accused of being staged.
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.