Photography
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View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving camera photograph. Created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, it shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window, made using a camera obscura. It was the result of an 8-hour exposure.
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William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, 1844, PDF. First photographic book, with 24 calotypes.
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Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 11 vols., 1887, JPGs.
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Portrait of Nahui Olin by Edward Weston, 1924.
Contents
Pages
- 291
- Berenice Abbott
- František Abrahamovič
- Yuri Abramochkin
- William Ackland
- Sarah Angelina Acland
- Costică Acsinte
- Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon
- Ansel Adams
- Robert Adamson
- Olympe Aguado
- Sofia Ahlbom
- Joseph Albert
- Pavel Albieri
- Casiano Alguacil
- Fratelli Alinari
- Giuseppe Allegri
- Edward L. Allen
- Timothy Allen
- Darogha Ubbas Alli
- Marie-Alexandre Alophe
- Mads Alstrup
- Jane Fulton Alt
- Robert Altman
- Gioacchino Altobelli
- Pierre-Jean Amar
- Antoni Amatller
- Hubertus von Amelunxen
- Cornelis Hendrik van Amerom
- Georges Ancely
- Domenico Anderson
- James Anderson
- Thomas Andrew
- Bert Andrews
- Ludwig Angerer
- Thomas Annan
- Ottomar Anschütz
- Edward Anthony
- Eugène Appert
- Frederick Scott Archer
- Félix Arnaudin
- Hippolyte Arnoux
- Eduard Isaac Asser
- Eugène Atget
- Anna Atkins
- Pau Audouard
- James Aurig
- Richard Avedon
- George Barnard
- Catharine Weed Barnes
- Geoffrey Batchen
- David Bate
- Antonio Beato
- Felice Beato
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Alexandru Bellu
- John Berger
- Iosif Berman
- Ilse Bing
- Werner Bischof
- Karl Blossfeldt
- Irena Blühová
- Jean-François Bonhomme
- Vane Bor
- Mathew Brady
- Anton Giulio Bragaglia
- James Bragge
- Brian Brake
- Brassaï
- Francis Bruguière
- Peter Bunnell
- Burton Brothers
- Michal Burza
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Robert Capa
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Jack Cato
- Graham Clarke
- Gregory Colbert
- George S. Cook
- Charles Cros
- Edward Curtis
- Louis Daguerre
- Branibor Debeljković
- František Drtikol
- Josef Maria Eder
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Peter Henry Emerson
- Elliott Erwitt
- Walker Evans
- Constant Alexandre Famin
- Andreas Feininger
- Roger Fenton
- Joan Fontcuberta
- Hollis Frampton
- Gisèle Freund
- Jaromír Funke
- Peter Galassi
- Alexander Gardner
- Carl Christoph Friedrich Geiger
- Helmut Gernsheim
- James F. Gibson
- Andreas Groll
- Hervé Guibert
- Philip Haas
- Alexandr Hackenschmied
- Anneliese Hager
- Philippe Halsman
- Florence Henri
- Tim Hetherington
- David Octavius Hill
- Karol Hiller
- Lewis Hine
- Kati Horna
- Horst P. Horst
- Nicolae Ionescu
- William Henry Jackson
- Pierre Janssen
- Libuše Jarcovjáková
- Gertrude Kaesebier
- Andrey Osipovich Karelin
- Basile Kargopoulo
- André Kertész
- Fernand Khnopff
- Kouzlo staré fotografie
- Ede Kozics
- Germaine Krull
- James Lafayette
- Jean Lauzon
- Jiří Lehovec
- Annie Leibovitz
- Alexander Liberman
- El Lissitzky
- John Loengard
- Lumière brothers
- Father Mackey
- Yanaki and Milton Manaki
- Roxana Marcoci
- Étienne-Jules Marey
- Samoilă Mârza
- James McDonald
- Lajos Mezey
- Gjon Mili
- Tina Modotti
- Lucia Moholy
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Nadar
- Paul Nadar
- James Nasmyth
- Beaumont Newhall
- Nicéphore Niépce
- Sonya Noskowiak
- Carl Gustav Oehme
- Ogawa Kazumasa
- Jacob Olie
- Timothy O'Sullivan
- Joaquim Insley Pacheco
- David Prakel
- John Pultz
- Achille Quinet
- Jean Raoul
- Man Ray
- John Reekie
- Oscar Gustave Rejlander
- Jaroslav Rössler
- Naomi Rosenblum
- Martha Rosler
- Ed Ruscha
- Andrew J. Russell
- Jean Baptiste Sabatier-Blot
- Alfred Sache
- John Edward Sache
- August Sander
- Steven Sasson
- Aaron Scharf
- Allan Sekula
- Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva
- Slit-scan
- Katrina Sluis
- Ré Soupault
- Jo Spence
- Julian Stallabrass
- Edward Steichen
- Harvey Stein
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Dennis Stock
- Paul Strand
- John Szarkowski
- Carol Szathmari
- Isaac West Taber
- William Henry Fox Talbot
- Gerda Taro
- Karel Teige
- Franciszka and Stefan Themerson
- John Thomson
- Théodore Tiffereau
- Louis Tinayre
- Tomishige Rihei
- Eugène Trutat
- Pierre Trémaux
- Ludovico Tuminello
- Peter Turner
- Uchida Kuichi
- Ueno Hikoma
- Zsuzsi Ujj
- Ukai Gyokusen
- Ulay
- Auguste Vacquerie
- George Valentine
- Bertha Valerius
- Carl Van Vechten
- Ferenc Veress
- Louis Vert
- Louis Vignes
- Jean-Marie Villard
- Joseph Villard
- Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
- Eugène Villette
- Hermann Wilhelm Vogel
- Samuel Walker
- Alfred Henry Wall
- Jeff Wall
- Charles Walter
- Andy Warhol
- Augustus Washington
- Carleton Watkins
- Alex Webb
- Liz Wells
- Brett Weston
- Edward Weston
- Nicoline Weywadt
- John Adams Whipple
- Jesse Harrison Whitehurst
- George Washington Wilson
- Charles David Winter
- Eugen Wiškovský
- Joel-Peter Witkin
- William de Wiveleslie Abney
- Yokoyama Matsusaburo
- Zangaki brothers
- Jules Ziegler
- Heinrich Zille
Selected publications
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László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, 1925/27, Log.
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László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zu Architektur, 1929, Log.
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Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, 1944/69, Log.
Chronophotography
- Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 11 vols., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887, 781 plates. (English)
Avant-garde, Modernism
- László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Munich: Albert Langen, 1925, 115 pp; 2nd ed., 1927, 140 pp. Incl. "Dynamik der Gross-Stadt", pp 116-129. (German)
- Painting Photography Film, trans. Janet Seligman, London: Lund Humphries, 1969. (English)
- more translations
- Albert Renger-Patzsch, Die Welt ist schön. Einhundert photographische Aufnahmen, Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1928; other ed., Munich: Einhorn, 1928. Photo book. [1] Reception.
- August Sander, Antlitz der Zeit. Sechzig Aufnahmen Deutscher Menschen Des 20. Jahrhunderts, Munich: Transmare, 1929. Photo book. [2] [3]
- Franz Roh, Jan Tschichold, Foto-Auge: 76 Fotos der Zeit / Œil et photo: 76 photographies de notre temps / Photo-Eye: 76 Photos of the Period, Stuttgart: Wedekind, 1929, 18+[76] pp. [4] [5] [6] [7] (German)/(French)/(English)
- Werner Gräff, Es kommt der neue Fotograf!, Berlin: H. Reckendorf, 1929. [8] (German)
- László Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zur Architektur, Munich: Albert Langen, Bauhausbücher 14, 1929, 241 pp; facsimile repr., Mainz and Berlin: Florian Kupferberg, 1968, 251 pp. (German)
- The New Vision: From Material to Architecture, trans. Daphne M. Hoffman, New York: Breuer Warren and Putnam, 1930; exp.rev.ed. as The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist, New York: George Wittenborn, 1947, 92 pp. (English)
- more translations
- Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, intro. Siegfried Giedion and Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1944; rev.ed., Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1964. (English)
Historisation
- Lucia Moholy, A Hundred Years of Photography, 1839-1939, Middlesex, England: Harmondsworth, 1939.
- Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1949, 256 pp; 5th ed., 1982. (English)
- Historia de la fotografia, trans. Homero Alsina Thevenet, 2002. (Spanish)
- Helmut Gernsheim with Alison Gernsheim, The History of Photography From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914, Oxford University Press, 1955; rev.ed., Thames & Hudson, 1969. (English)
- Aleksander Maciesza, Historia fotografii polskiej w latach 1839–1889, Plock: Towarzystwo Naukowe Płockie, 1972, 83 pp. (Polish)
- Robert M. Doty and Minor White, Photography in America, New York: Published for the Whitney Museum of American Art [by] Random House, 1974. (English)
- Aaron Scharf, Pioneers of Photography: An Album of Pictures and Words, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976, PDF. (English)
- Bruce Bernard and Margaret Donovan, Photodiscovery: masterworks of photography, 1840-1940, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980. (English)
- Ian Jeffrey, Photography: a concise history, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981. (English)
- Peter Galassi, Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981, PDF. (English)
- Jean-Luc Daval, Histoire d’un art: la photographie, Genève: Éditions d’art Albert Skira, 1982, 268 p. Review (French)
- Photography, history of an art, trans. R.F.M. Dexter, New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1982. (English)
- Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography, New York: Abbeville, 1984; rev.ed., 1989; 3rd edition, 1997, PDF. (English)
- John Pultz, The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, PDF. (English)
- Heinz K. Henisch, Bridget A. Henisch, The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations, Pennsylvania State University, 1996. (English)
- Pierre-Jean Amar, Histoire de la photographie, Paris: P.U.F., 1997. (French)
- Mary Warner Marien, Photography: a cultural history, Upper River Saddle, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002. (English)
- Clément Chéroux, Fautographie. Petite histoire de l'erreur photographique, Crisnée: Yellow Now, 2003, 183 pp. (French)
- Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The photobook: a history, London: Phaidon, 2004. (English)
- P.C. Bunnell, Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography, Aperture, 2006. [9] (English)
- Fotografia românească după anii '90, Bucharest: Editura UNArte, Proiect AFCN, 2006, 300 pp. (Romanian)
- Aurora Király (ed.), Fotografia în arta românească contemporană: tendinţe în România după 1989, Bucharest: Unarte, 2006, PDF, IA. (Romanian)
- Matthew S. Witkovsky, Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, intro. Peter Demetz, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, and London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, xxix+278 pp. (English)
- Jae Emerling, Photography: history and theory, Abingdon, Oxon/ New York: Routledge, 2012. (English)
- Tanya Sheehan, Photography, History, Difference, University Press of New England, 2014. (English)
- Kaja Silverman, The Miracle of Analogy or The History of Photography, Part 1, Stanford University Press, 2015, 203 pp. (English)
Theory and philosophy
- Pierre Bourdieu, Un art moyen. Essais sur les usages sociaux de la photographie, 1965. (French)
- Photography: A Middle-brow Art, trans. Shaun Whiteside, 1990. (English)
- Susan Sontag, On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977, 207 pp; RosettaBooks, 2005. (English)
- Roland Barthes, La chambre claire: note sur la photographie, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 1980, 194 pp. (French)
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, trans. Richard Howard, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982, 119 pp. (English)
- more translations
- Victor Burgin (ed.), Thinking Photography, 2nd ed., Macmillan, 1982. (English)
- Vilém Flusser, Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie, European Photography, 1983, 58 pp; 1989; 1997; 2006. (German)
- Towards A Philosophy of Photography, ed. Derek Bennett, Göttingen: European Photography, 1984, 62 pp. (English)
- more translations
- Vilém Flusser, Ins Universum der technischen Bilder, Göttingen: European Photography, 1985; 1992; 1996. (German)
- Into the Universe of Technical Images, trans. Nancy Ann Roth, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 224 pp. (English)
- more translations
- Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. (English)
- David Green, Joanna Lowry (eds.), Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image, Photoworks / Photoforum, 2005, 183 pp. (English)
- Jacques Derrida, Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography, ed. Gerhard Richter, trans. Jeff Fort, Stanford University Press, 2010, 67 pp. (English)
- François Laruelle, The Concept of Non-Photography, Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011. (English)
- François Laruelle, Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics, trans. Drew S. Burk, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2012, 85 pp. (English)
- Eduardo Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles (eds.), The Itinerant Languages of Photography, Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013. (English)
- John Berger, Understanding a Photograph, ed. & intro. Geoff Dyer, Aperture, 2013, 256 pp. (English)
- Lisa Saltzman, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, PDF. (English)
Other
- John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye, New Yor: MoMA, 1966. (English)
- Georges Didi-Huberman, Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere [1982], trans. Alisa Hartz, MIT Press, 2003, 373 pp. (English)
- Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites, Los Angeles: Getty, 2005, 226 pp. (English)
- George M. Craven, Object and Image, An Introduction to Photography New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1990. (English)
- Carol Armstrong, Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843–1875, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. (English)
- Photo / Graphics, Paris: Jeu de Paume, 2008, 45 pp. (English)
- Louis Kaplan, The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 288 pp. (English)
- Mark Durden, Fifty Key Writers on Photography, London: Routledge, 2013. (English)
- Bibliographies
- Kelley Wilder, "History of Photography", Oxford Bibliographies, 2014. (English)
Exhibitions online
- Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, NGA, 2007.
- Object:Photo, MoMA's 1920s-30s photography collection, 2014.