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** [http://monoskop.multiplace.org/log/?p=11179 ''Historia de la fotografia''], trans. Homero Alsina Thevenet, 2002. {{es}}
 
** [http://monoskop.multiplace.org/log/?p=11179 ''Historia de la fotografia''], trans. Homero Alsina Thevenet, 2002. {{es}}
 
* Aleksander Maciesza, ''[http://monoskop.multiplace.org/log/?p=7950 Historia fotografii polskiej w latach 1839–1889]'', Plock: Towarzystwo Naukowe Płockie, 1972, 83 pp. {{pl}}
 
* Aleksander Maciesza, ''[http://monoskop.multiplace.org/log/?p=7950 Historia fotografii polskiej w latach 1839–1889]'', Plock: Towarzystwo Naukowe Płockie, 1972, 83 pp. {{pl}}
* A. Scharf, ''Pioneers of photography: An album of pictures and words'', New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976.
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* A. Scharf, ''Pioneers of photography: An album of pictures and words'', New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976, [[Media:Scharf_Aaron_Pioneers_of_Photography_1976.pdf|PDF]].
 
* Peter Galassi, ''Before Photography. Painting and the Invention of Photography'', New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
 
* Peter Galassi, ''Before Photography. Painting and the Invention of Photography'', New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
 
* Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, ''The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations'', Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
 
* Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, ''The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations'', Pennsylvania State University, 1996.

Revision as of 19:12, 30 July 2015

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.
William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, 1844, PDF. First photographic book, with 24 calotypes.
Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 11 vols., 1887, JPGs.
An inverted photograph from F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson, "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919", Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society of London (1920), p 332.
Portrait of Nahui Olin by Edward Weston, 1924.

Pages

Selected writings

Cover of Beaumont Newhall, Photography 1839–1937, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1937.
László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, 1925/27. Log.
Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, 1944/1969, Log.

(in English unless noted)

Chronophotography
  • Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, 11 vols., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887, 781 plates.
Avant-garde
Historisation
Theory and philosophy
La chambre claire: note sur la photographie, 1980, PDF, Log.
Other
Bibliographies

Resources

  • Object:Photo, MoMA's 1920s-30s photography collection, 2014.