#historyofphotography — Public Fediverse posts

Uncovering the History of How China Fell in Love With Photography https://petapixel.com/2026/01/09/uncovering-the-history-of-how-china-fell-in-love-with-photography/ #historyofphotography #benfraternale #inaninstant #chinalucky #Spotlight #Culture #history #seagull #Analog #analog #china

France Plans to Mark 200 Years of Photography in 2026 https://petapixel.com/2026/01/05/france-plans-to-mark-200-years-of-photography-in-2026/ #historyofphotography #nicephoreniepce #louisdaguerre #invention #Analog #france #paris #News

Henri Cartier-Bresson Broke His Own Rules in Pursuit of His Famous Photo ‘Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare’ https://petapixel.com/2026/01/03/henri-cartier-bresson-broke-his-own-rules-in-pursuit-of-his-famous-photo-behind-the-gare-saint-lazare/ #behindthegaresaintlazare #historyofphotography #henricartierbresson #storybehindthephoto #streetphotographer #streetphotography #thedecisivemoment #behindthephoto #Features #cropping #Analog

The Art of Photography in Children’s Books Explored in New Exhibition https://petapixel.com/2025/12/25/the-art-of-photography-in-childrens-books-explored-in-new-exhibition/ #childrensphotography #historyofphotography #exhibition #photobook #Features

Without context, many of the most important photographs of the world would be considered ugly, uninspired, or poorly composed.
#photography #photographers #historyofphotography #cameras #famousphotos

Early Photography in Colonial Australia

An interesting blend that I wasn't quite expecting, with reflection on photography, First Nations people, the colonial project and modern artistic use of historical photographic methods. James Tylor had some fascinating comments about #Kaurna and other #SouthAustralia place names. Panel at #NationalLibraryAU last week. #historyOfPhotography

Watch, 68 minutes via https://www.library.gov.au/whats-on/events/early-photography-colonial-australia

🧐 Sabe o que é um archeotipista? Nesta entrevista, Carlos Batista explica!

📷 Podem também ficar a conhecer mais sobre história dos primórdios da #fotografia, sobre #cianotipia e sobre o projecto de arte e ciência implementado na #FigueiraDaFoz por este doutorando do IHC.

O vídeo é da ESECTV e está disponível no RTP Play e aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgQ5wHCiw4

#Histodons #Archaeodons #Photography #Cyanotype #CyanotypeExperiments #HistoryOfPhotography #ArtAndScience #HistóriaDaFotografia #IHCTalent

🧐 Sabe o que é um archeotipista? Nesta entrevista, Carlos Batista explica!

📷 Podem também ficar a conhecer mais sobre história dos primórdios da #fotografia, sobre #cianotipia e sobre o projecto de arte e ciência implementado na #FigueiraDaFoz por este doutorando do IHC.

O vídeo é da ESECTV e está disponível no RTP Play e aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgQ5wHCiw4

#Histodons #Archaeodons #Photography #Cyanotype #CyanotypeExperiments #HistoryOfPhotography #ArtAndScience #HistóriaDaFotografia #IHCTalent

🧐 Sabe o que é um archeotipista? Nesta entrevista, Carlos Batista explica!

📷 Podem também ficar a conhecer mais sobre história dos primórdios da #fotografia, sobre #cianotipia e sobre o projecto de arte e ciência implementado na #FigueiraDaFoz por este doutorando do IHC.

O vídeo é da ESECTV e está disponível no RTP Play e aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgQ5wHCiw4

#Histodons #Archaeodons #Photography #Cyanotype #CyanotypeExperiments #HistoryOfPhotography #ArtAndScience #HistóriaDaFotografia #IHCTalent

🧐 Sabe o que é um archeotipista? Nesta entrevista, Carlos Batista explica!

📷 Podem também ficar a conhecer mais sobre história dos primórdios da #fotografia, sobre #cianotipia e sobre o projecto de arte e ciência implementado na #FigueiraDaFoz por este doutorando do IHC.

O vídeo é da ESECTV e está disponível no RTP Play e aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgQ5wHCiw4

#Histodons #Archaeodons #Photography #Cyanotype #CyanotypeExperiments #HistoryOfPhotography #ArtAndScience #HistóriaDaFotografia #IHCTalent

🧐 Sabe o que é um archeotipista? Nesta entrevista, Carlos Batista explica!

📷 Podem também ficar a conhecer mais sobre história dos primórdios da #fotografia, sobre #cianotipia e sobre o projecto de arte e ciência implementado na #FigueiraDaFoz por este doutorando do IHC.

O vídeo é da ESECTV e está disponível no RTP Play e aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgQ5wHCiw4

#Histodons #Archaeodons #Photography #Cyanotype #CyanotypeExperiments #HistoryOfPhotography #ArtAndScience #HistóriaDaFotografia #IHCTalent

Why did it take so long for professional cameras to become mirrorless when compact point-and-shoot digital cameras were mirrorless right from the start?
#cameras #digitalcameras #mirrorlesscameras #photography #historyofphotography #compactcameras

https://www.cyclingeu.com/688200/the-boy-with-the-wooden-bicycle-by-johannes-paasuke-estonia-1912-historicalphotos-rarephotos/ The Boy with the Wooden Bicycle by Johannes Pääsuke, Estonia, 1912 #historicalphotos #rarephotos #Bicycling #BicyclingEstonia #Biking #Cycling #DocumentaryPhotography #Estonia #historicalphotos #HistoryOfPhotography #oldphotos #photography #vintagephotography

📖 Filomena Serra y Caterina Cucinotta han coordinado el dossier "El género detrás de la cámara. Mujeres fotógrafas europeas", publicado por la Fotocinema — Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía.

🔓 Disponible en #AccesoAbierto: https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/fotocinema/issue/view/1315

@histodons

#Histodons #Photography #FemalePhotographers #OpenAccess #HistoryOfPhotography #AcessoAberto #MulheresFotógrafas #Fotografia #HistóriaDaFotografia #MujeresFotógrafas #HistoriaDeLaFotografía #Fotoperiodismo #Photojournalism

Reddit Asks ChatGPT to Restore World’s Oldest Photo and the Results are Horrible https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/reddit-asks-chatgpt-to-restore-worlds-oldest-photo-and-the-results-are-horrible/ #historyofphotography #earlyphotography #nicephoreniepce #daguerreotype #generativeai #Technology #heliograph #chatgpt #Analog #reddit #News

Reddit Asks ChatGPT to Restore World’s Oldest Photo and the Results are Horrible https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/reddit-asks-chatgpt-to-restore-worlds-oldest-photo-and-the-results-are-horrible/ #historyofphotography #earlyphotography #nicephoreniepce #daguerreotype #generativeai #Technology #heliograph #chatgpt #Analog #reddit #News

Reddit Asks ChatGPT to Restore World’s Oldest Photo and the Results are Horrible https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/reddit-asks-chatgpt-to-restore-worlds-oldest-photo-and-the-results-are-horrible/ #historyofphotography #earlyphotography #nicephoreniepce #daguerreotype #generativeai #Technology #heliograph #chatgpt #Analog #reddit #News

Reddit Asks ChatGPT to Restore World’s Oldest Photo and the Results are Horrible https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/reddit-asks-chatgpt-to-restore-worlds-oldest-photo-and-the-results-are-horrible/ #historyofphotography #earlyphotography #nicephoreniepce #daguerreotype #generativeai #Technology #heliograph #chatgpt #Analog #reddit #News

Reddit Asks ChatGPT to Restore World’s Oldest Photo and the Results are Horrible https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/reddit-asks-chatgpt-to-restore-worlds-oldest-photo-and-the-results-are-horrible/ #historyofphotography #earlyphotography #nicephoreniepce #daguerreotype #generativeai #Technology #heliograph #chatgpt #Analog #reddit #News

📷 A Youthful Studio Photograph of Painter Osman Hamdi Bey at the Age of 13, Taken Using the Daguerreotype Technique in 1855 #HistoryOfPhotography

📖 Num artigo publicado na revista Revelar, Leonor Sá analisa o papel do retrato judiciário em termos filosóficos e como instrumento biopolítico de poder na segunda metade do século XIX e como este tipo de retrato (ou #mugshot) acabou por fascinar grandes artistas plásticos e o imaginário público.

🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/RL/article/view/14504

#Histodons #Photography #HistoryOfPhotography #CulturalStudies #Biopolitics #Fotografia #HistóriaDaFotografia #Biopolítica #RetratoJudiciário

From her retrospective. That story moves me. The Leica came later, the Rolleiflex will be the one in the self portraits. Those I bought in a book. #Photography #HistoryOfPhotography #EastCoastKin #VivianMaier

Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence & Rules
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

Eminently successful as a portraitist, Claudet also demonstrated a broad interest in photography in general - in technical problems, paper processes, and in aesthetic matters.
#AntoineFrabcoisClaudet
#Photography #HistoryOfPhotography #Daguerotype #Book #Art #page42

More shameless self-promoting. Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine, Sunday, 24 Nov 2024.

#historyofphotography
#photography
#photographybooks
#WashingtonState
#WashingtonTerritory
#booksaboutphotography
#vintagephotography

The French and English Fleets at Cherbourg, by Gustave Le Gray, 1858. This sublime marine view is part of the recent mass release of 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works by the Metropolitian Museum of Art.

#photography
#historyofphotography
#photohistory
#Le Gray
#marineviews
#oceanviews
#sailingships

George Tames - The Loneliest Job (1961). At the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, in a press photo exhibit. He leaned like this because of his bad back and was only reading a newspaper, but we'd readily believe it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

#Photography #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #PhotoJournalism #JFK

A Fascinating Short History of the Kodak Snapshot https://petapixel.com/2024/10/03/a-fascinating-short-history-of-the-kodak-snapshot/ #historyofphotography #historyofcameras #kodakbrownie #Features #snapshot #Analog #Kodak

“At that time a device called a camera obscura was used by artists to project an image into a wooden box. Talbot believed that this image could be made permanent and abandoned his political career in 1835 to focus on his new project.“ #artHistory #historyOfPhotography

https://mastodonapp.uk/@VictorianCommons/113152041043780000

I loved this from Bruce Gilden in an interview playing at his Fotografiska exhibit:

“I’m angry. I’ll always be angry. If I stop being angry, I’ll lose my art. I’ll stop being Bruce Gilden.”

There was another I can only paraphrase: he knows he can't be Cartier-Bresson, but he can be the best possible version of Bruce Gilden. Words to live by.

#BruceGilden #HistoryOfPhotography #PhotoHistory #StreetPhotography #PortraitPhotography #Photography #Fotografiska

Governess and nanny shoots over 150k photos in her lifetime, never shows them. Doesn't develop some. She ages in poverty. In 2007, her work is auctioned from a forgotten storage locker. It goes viral on Flickr. Now there are documentaries and books. Dying in 2009, she's never to know she's now seen as one of the great 20th century street photographers. That’s fake, right?

https://www.vivianmaier.com

#VivianMaier #HistoryOfPhotography #PhotoHistory #StreetPhotography #Photography #Fotografiska

One more for #Caturday. Evelyn Hofer: Cat in a Dublin pub (1966)

I believe the pub is Mulligan's in Dublin. Almost 300 years old and appears in a Joyce short story. There's nothing new to say about the photo. Hofer was a master.

#CatsOfMastodon #EvelynHofer #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Ireland #Dublin #BlackAndWhite

One more for #Caturday. Evelyn Hofer: Cat in a Dublin pub (1966)

I believe the pub is Mulligan's in Dublin. Almost 300 years old and appears in a Joyce short story. There's nothing new to say about the photo. Hofer was a master.

#CatsOfMastodon #EvelynHofer #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Ireland #Dublin #BlackAndWhite

One more for #Caturday. Evelyn Hofer: Cat in a Dublin pub (1966)

I believe the pub is Mulligan's in Dublin. Almost 300 years old and appears in a Joyce short story. There's nothing new to say about the photo. Hofer was a master.

#CatsOfMastodon #EvelynHofer #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Ireland #Dublin #BlackAndWhite

One more for #Caturday. Evelyn Hofer: Cat in a Dublin pub (1966)

I believe the pub is Mulligan's in Dublin. Almost 300 years old and appears in a Joyce short story. There's nothing new to say about the photo. Hofer was a master.

#CatsOfMastodon #EvelynHofer #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Ireland #Dublin #BlackAndWhite

One more for #Caturday. Evelyn Hofer: Cat in a Dublin pub (1966)

I believe the pub is Mulligan's in Dublin. Almost 300 years old and appears in a Joyce short story. There's nothing new to say about the photo. Hofer was a master.

#CatsOfMastodon #EvelynHofer #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Ireland #Dublin #BlackAndWhite

This Photographer Documented Native American Tribes Before They Vanished https://petapixel.com/2024/06/21/this-photographer-documented-native-american-tribes-before-they-vanished/ #historyofphotography #ethnophotographer #nativeamericans #edwardscurtis #americanwest #Features #oldwest

#Alcatraz 1855 https://mprove.de/chrono?q=0.30876,0.00928&z=10.88&m=IF16813406-90&d=1&s=1&iiif-content=https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/16813406&c=h
#SanFrancisco #oldPhotography #HistoryOfPhotography

Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) set the high bar for photomontage prints. From 1880 to 1885, she created dozens of increasingly complex images. Her masterpiece was a single image made up of 22,000 individual portraits.

#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#photomontage
#compositephotos
#portraits
#Canada
#BritishColumbia
#HannahMaynard

Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) set the high bar for photomontage prints. From 1880 to 1885, she created dozens of increasingly complex images. Her masterpiece was a single image made up of 22,000 individual portraits.

#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#photomontage
#compositephotos
#portraits
#Canada
#BritishColumbia
#HannahMaynard

Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) set the high bar for photomontage prints. From 1880 to 1885, she created dozens of increasingly complex images. Her masterpiece was a single image made up of 22,000 individual portraits.

#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#photomontage
#compositephotos
#portraits
#Canada
#BritishColumbia
#HannahMaynard

Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) set the high bar for photomontage prints. From 1880 to 1885, she created dozens of increasingly complex images. Her masterpiece was a single image made up of 22,000 individual portraits.

#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#photomontage
#compositephotos
#portraits
#Canada
#BritishColumbia
#HannahMaynard

Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) set the high bar for photomontage prints. From 1880 to 1885, she created dozens of increasingly complex images. Her masterpiece was a single image made up of 22,000 individual portraits.

#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#photomontage
#compositephotos
#portraits
#Canada
#BritishColumbia
#HannahMaynard

My latest exploration of early photography in Washington State just arrived in today's mail. It's the story of famous (and infamous) photographer Eadweard Muybridge and his little-known 1871 trip to document the lighthouses along Washington's coast. It's in the summer issue of Columbia, the magazine of the Washington State Historical Society.

#photography
#photohistory #historyofphotography #Muybridge #EadweardMuybridge #WashingtonState
#lighthouses

Students and followers of art history and the history of photography, check out Getty's free virtual library! You can download some gorgeous books at no cost.

https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/

#arthistory
#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#architecturalhistory
#artconservation
#freebooks
#artbooks
#photobooks

Gretha Geertruida MacLeod (aka Mata Hari, 1876-1917). Portrait ca. 1910s. And, from her French police arrest series, Feb. 13, 1917, seven months before she was killed by firing squad. #vintagephotography #MataHari #HistoryofPhotography

Modern color photography is amazing, but there's something about an autochrome that just leaps off the page. This 1915 portrait of an unidentified woman by Rudolph Dührkoop is a great example of the art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_D%C3%BChrkoop

#autochrome
#portrait
#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#RudolphDührkoop
#GermanPhotography
#pictorialism

Did you know that all issues of Camera Work, the seminal early 20th-century journal published by Alfred Stieglitz, are available online? Check them and many other wonderful modern art and literature journals out at the Modernist Journal Project.

https://modjourn.org/journal/

#arthistory
#historyofphotography
#modernistliterature
#literarymagazines
#magazineart

Sun is out - new cyanotype prints! This one is inspired by the Wilson cloud chamber and cosmic rays. A Wilson cloud chamber is basically a tank of condensed, supercooled water (or alcohol) vapour. It is used to detect high energy particles - ionizing radiation. …

#cyanotype #alternativePhotography #alternativeProcess #WilsonCloudChamber #cloudChamber #clouds #sky #cosmicRays #particlePhysics #physics #histstm #historyOfPhysics #historyOfPhotography #quantum

Current mood: Day Dreams, by William Dassonville, 1910.

#pictorialism
#Dassonville
#photohistory
#HistoryOfPhotography

I’m blown away by this first review of my new book.

“Well-illustrated, delightfully told, and shrewdly cited, Greyhavens’ work is a masterpiece of local history.” Kirkus Reviews

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tim-greyhavens/artistic-and-life-like-photography-in-washington-1850-1900/

#Photography
#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#WashingtonState
#PacificNorthwest
#PNW
#AmericanHistory
#PhotographyBooks