All Entries Tagged With: "history of photography"
Eastman, Kodak, and Roll Film: A history of revolution and evolution in photography
I love looking at the history of photography. I think it helps keep things in perspective.
Somewhere in the mid-1870s almost everyone had had some sort of exposure to photography. Certainly everyone in modern society had been photographed or, at the very least, had seen photographs. Many had even thought of taking up photography as a [...]
Early Travel Photography
The world seemed full of unexplored wonders until the mid 19th century. That was until steamships, railroads, and cameras made it possible for more people to travel to distant and exotic lands and share their visual experiences. People were hungry for these mysterious and far off places and hungrier still for those photographs.
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The Birth of War Time Photography
It can be easy to forget how the world viewed things before photography. Until the invention of photography, wars were viewed as remote and rather exciting to the people at home far removed from the events taking place. Details of war were learned through delayed and biased news accounts or from returning soldiers. [...]
The Importance of Early Portraiture in the History of Photography
After seeing some daguerreotype portraits, the poet Elizabeth Barrett wrote in 1843 “several of these wonderful portraits…like engravings-only exquisite and delicate beyond the work of a graver-have I seen lately-longing to have such a memorial of every Being dear to me in the world. It is not merely the likeness which is precious in [...]
Photography and History Collide
“The wish to capture evanescent reflections is not only impossible, as has been shown by thorough German investigation, but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man-made machine may fix the image of God.” German publication Leipziger Stadtanzeiger – 1839
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Weekend Perusing: 100 Prints
In the Photoblogosphere
Ed has a great post on the insights of buying new gear or buying new knowledge. That’s always been one of the focuses of this particular blog even when we occasionally delve into equipment information.
With the holidays fast approaching we have been looking into options for our oldest child’s first camera. She’s only [...]
