French flâneur
and a pioneer of
documentary
photography
Came to artistic
fame after his death
Rue de l'Hôtel de
Ville (1921)
André
Kertész
(1894–1985)
Meudon (1928)
Hungarian-born
photographer known for
his groundbreaking
contributions to
photographic composition
and the photo essay
Migrated to the US in 1936,
where he had to rebuild his
reputation through
commissioned work due to
German persecution of the
Jews and the threat of
World War II
1925 - The Leica
introduces the 35
mm format to still
photography
Alexander
Rodchenko
(1891– 1956)
White Sea Canal, 1933
Russian artist, sculptor,
photographer and graphic
designer. He was one of the
founders of constructivism and
Russian design
He worked as a painter and
graphic designer before turning to
photomontage and photography
August
Sander
(1876–1964)
Pastry Cook (1928)
German
portrait and
documentary
photographer
His work includes
landscape, nature,
architecture, and
street photography,
but he is best
known for his
portraits
Man Ray
(1890–1976)
Dust Breeding (1920)
American visual
artist who spent
most of his career in
France
Best known for his
photography, and he
was a renowned
fashion and portrait
photographer
Henri
Cartier-Bresson
(1908–2004)
Behind the Gare
Saint -Lazare
(1932)
French
photographer
considered the
master of candid
photography, and
an early user of 35
mm film
He helped
develop street
photography and
approvingly cited
a notion of the
inevitability of a
decisive moment
WW2 1939-1945
The Great
Depression
1880-1899
1884-1889 -
Flexible Roll
Film
Thomas
Eakins
(1844–1916)
Two Pupils in
Greek Dress
(1883)
American realist
painter,
photographer,
sculptor, and fine
arts educator
Widely acknowledged
to be one of the most
important artists in
American art history
Peter Henry
Emerson
(1856-1936)
A Winter's
Morning
(1887)
British writer
and
photographer
Known for taking
photographs that
displayed natural
settings and for his
disputes with the
photographic
establishment about
the purpose and
meaning of
photography
1887 –
Celluloid
film base
introduced
1888 – The Kodak
n°1 box camera, the
first easy-to-use
camera is introduced
1888 – Louis Le
Prince makes
Roundhay
Garden Scene,
believed to be the
first motion
picture on film
ever made
1898 – Kodak
introduces the
Folding Pocket
Kodak
1860-1879
Timothy H.
O'Sullivan
(1840-1882)
The Harvest of Death'
(1863)
Known for his
work related to
the American Civil
War and the
Western United
States
Eadweard
Muybridge
(1830-1904)
English photographer
important for his
pioneering work in
photographic studies of
motion, and early work
in motion-picture
projection
Wanted to prove a horse lifted 4 feet when it trotted
Phases of a Stride
by a Pony While
Cantering (1879)
André
Adolphe-Eugène
Disdéri
(1819–1889)
Carte de Visite
(Cdv) November
1854
Annotations:
French
Portraits
photographed 8 times
in a rapid sequence by
a camera with 8 lens'
8 poses in the space
of a few minutes
Small, and sent in
the post - Turned
photography into a
true industry
French photographer
who started his
photographic career
as a daguerreotypist
but gained greater
fame for patenting
his version of the
carte de visite, a
small photographic
image which was
mounted on a card
1871-1878
- Dry
Plates
American Civil
War - 1861 to
1865
1871 – The gelatin
emulsion is
invented by
Richard Maddox
1839-1859
Louis Daguerre
(1787–1851)
Annotations:
Discovered his own method of fixing the shadows.
Fixed his images on a mirrored metal plate.
The images made, were one-off prints: Dagurreotype - described as "mirrored memory" in the 19th century. Unique visual experience
Fixing
the
shadows
1839
French artist and
photographer,
recognized for his
invention of the
daguerreotype
process of
photography
Boulevard du
Temple (1838)
Daguerreotype
Annotations:
Images were fixed on a mirrored metal plate, and they were one off images.
Willliam Henry
Fox Talbot
(1800–1877)
British scientist,
inventor and
photography
pioneer who
invented the salted
paper and calotype
processes
Talbot invented the
first process for
creating reasonably
light-fast and
permanent
photographs that was
made available to the
public
Nelson's Column under
construction - 1844
Camera Obscura
Optical device that
led to photography
and the photographic
camera
Annotations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside, where it is reproduced, inverted (thus upside-down), but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation
The
Wet-Collodion
Process - 1851
1848 – Edmond
Becquerel makes the
first full-color
photographs, but
they are only
laboratory curiosities
1940 - 1959
1942 – Kodacolor, the first
color film that yields negatives
for making chromogenic color
prints on paper. Roll films for
snapshot cameras only, 35
mm not available until 1958
1954 –
Leica M
Introduced
Tony
Vaccaro
(1922)
Attack on
Hemmerden (1945)
American
photographer who
is best known for
his photos taken in
Europe during 1944
and 1945 and in
Germany after
World War II
Henryk Ross
(1910 – 1991)
Playing as a Ghetto
Policeman (1943)
Polish Jewish
photographer who was
employed by the
Department of Statistics
for the Jewish Council
working as a staff
photographer
1957 – First digital
computer acquisition
of scanned
photographs, by
Russell Kirsch
1960 - 1979
Shōmei
Tōmatsu
(1930–2012)
Melted Bottle (1961)
Japanese
photographer
While still a student,
he had his
photographs published
by the major Japanese
photography
magazines
Diane Arbus
(1923–1971)
Marcella Matthaei
(1969)
American
photographer and
writer noted for
photographs of
marginalised people -
dwarfs, giants,
transgender people,
nudists, circus
performers
1964 – First Pentax
Spotmatic SLR
introduced
1980 - 1999
1986 – Kodak
scientists invent
the world's first
megapixel sensor.
1994 – Nikon
introduces the
first
optical-stabilized
lens
1993–95 – The Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory develops
devices using CMOS
or active pixel
sensors
Robert Frank
(1924)
Covered car - Long
Beach, California, 1956
American
photographer
and
documentary
filmmaker
His most notable work,
the 1958 book titled The
Americans, earned
Frank comparisons to a
modern-day de
Tocqueville for his fresh
and nuanced outsider's
view of American
society
William Klein
(1928)
Gun 1, New York 1995
American-born French
photographer and
filmmaker noted for his
ironic approach to both
media and his extensive
use of unusual
photographic techniques in
the context of
photojournalism and
fashion photography.
1991 - Kodak
released the
first
commercially
available digital
SLR - known as
the Kodak
DCS-100
2000 - 2015
Chuck Close
(1940)
Kate Moss (2003)
American painter and
photographer who
achieved fame as a
photorealist, through his
massive-scale portraits
known for using
creative and
intricate patterns
to portray a
human portrait
Joel
Meyerowritz
(1938)
Inside the pile,
looking west (2001)
Street
photographer
and portrait
and landscape
photographer
He began photographing in
color in 1962 and was an
early advocate of the use of
color during a time when
there was significant
resistance to the idea of
color photography as
serious art
11th
September,
2001 - 9/11
2009 – Kodak
announces the
discontinuance of
Kodachrome film.
2006 – Dalsa
produces a 111
megapixel CCD
sensor, the highest
resolution at that
time
Dan Mountford
"Personal Project"
2010-2011
Dan Mountford is a
24 year old
multidisciplinary
designer from the
UK.
Jill Greenberg
(1967)
American photographer
and artist known for her
portraits and fine art work
that often features
anthropomorphized
animals that have been
digitally manipulated with
painterly effects.
French photographer
and painter - known
for his photographs
of automobile races,
planes and Parisian
fashion female
models
Edward Steichen
(1879-1973)
Brooklyn Bridge. (1903)
Luxembourgish
American
photographer,
painter, and art
gallery and
museum curator
Robert
Demachy
(1859–1936)
'Speed' (1904)
French
Pictorial
photographer
known for his
intensely
manipulated
prints that
display a
distinct
painterly
quality.
1900 - Kodak introduced
the "Brownie" camera, a
very inexpensive
user-reloadable
point-and-shoot box
camera
1907 – The Autochrome
plate is introduced and
becomes the first
commercially successful
color photography
product
WW! 1914-1918
1917 - The
Russian
Revolution
and
communism
Alvin Langdon
Coburn (1882 - 1966)
Ezra Pound (1917)
Photographer who became a
key figure in the development
of American pictorialism. He
became the first key
photographer to emphasize
the visual potential of elevated
viewpoints and later made
some of the first completely
abstract photographs.