Civil War Photography History
In May 1861, Charles R. Rees ran an advertisement in the Richmond Dispatch for his finely executed photographs and ambrotypes. In…
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Photography a Cultural History Mary Warner Marien
There are hundreds of thousands of photographers and so it is a perfectly valid question to ask how the photographers on this site…
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War Photography History
Civil War-era photo of the north façade of the Smithsonian Castle. (Image courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives) The Henry family…
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History of Street Photography
Richard Nixon campaign rally, 1960. PHOTO: The estate of Garry Winogrand The first major retrospective of Winogrand’s work in 25 years…
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Photography Art History
Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices (IMAP) encompasses photo imaging, video, digital, sound, performance and related approaches to…
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History of landscape Photography
Roots in Antiquity Artists have been painting the landscape since ancient times. The Greeks and Romans created wall paintings of landscapes…
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Brief History of Photography
A Brief History of Photography Around the 16th century, J. B. Porta (1541-1615), a wise Neapolitan, was able to get the image of well-lighted…
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