Early photography

The photograph precipitated a dramatic change in how we perceive history. Amazing old photos like these can make it seem like you were standing right there during that historical moment.

These 20 famous photographs are significant in history each for their own reason. Learn how photography has literally changed history.

Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer is known mostly as an accomplished mathematician and physicist from Norway, but as a side hobby he was also an amateur photographer, taking to the streets of Oslo with a bulky camera secreted in his clothing to capture candid moments of unsuspecting passersby. Most of his photos were taken in the 1890s while Størmer was a 19-year-old student at the Royal Frederick University using a Stirn Concealed Vest Spy Camera, a secretive camera with a narrow lens designed…

circa 1880 pb

Exhibition dates: 25th February – 7th June 2015 Curators: Carol Jacobi, Curator, British Art 1850-1915, Tate Britain, Simon Baker, Curator, Photography and International Art, Tate, and Hannah…

The rise of photography in the mid-late 19th-century began the move away from an oral and literary tradition towards one based on image. A photograph can describe a moment in time more viscerally than the written word. Think of that picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. A million words have been written … Continue reading "The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn"

Photographers use their technical expertise, creativity, and composition skills to produce and preserve images that tell a story or record an event. Today, most photographers use digital cameras instead of the traditional film cameras. That Linhof Technica and I saw lots of photographic action, from Royalty to the lower decks, ships, tanks and aircraft, fair weather or foul. Taken while working for the Directorate of Public Relations, Canberra, in 1976. A great looking setup to achieve…

. Celebrating the beauty and history of the photogravure process and the important role it has played in helping photographers and pulishers in their mission to establish photography as a fine art. The only online collection of Camera Work, as well as examples from the early work of Peter Henry Emerson and Alfred Stieglitz to contemporary work being produced by many of todays most prominent photographers.

London at the end of Victorian era was the most important city in the world. Take a tour of this city and era with these beautiful pictures of a bygone era.

These rare early photographs of 19th century America show daily life in the country, as well as innovation due to the Industrial Revolution.