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Wikipedia: The History of Photography
Science & Media Museum of the UK: The History of Photography portrayed in an image collection
Identifying 5 Rare Types of Antique Photos: Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Tintype, Cartes de Visite & Cabinet Cards
PBS: A detailed timeline of photographic history beginning 1826 and noting every influention invention and discovery.
A Brief History of Photography: Beginning with the Camera Obscura and covering the major periods of development up to the present.
1926 Article: 50 years of photography
The Early 20th Century Seen in Real Color Video: Color photography began to be widely popularized during the 1960s and 70s, and we're used to seeing history before that point in black and white. But color has been reproduced for much longer than that. Early experiments were made shortly after the invention of photography itself in the early 1800s, and one of the most successful and beautiful methods, the autochrome, was launched on the market in 1907. In this video I tell the stories of people and places that appear on some of these autochromes.
The Kept and the Killed By Erica X Eisen: Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center. |
