~ CAMERAS & PHOTOGRAPHY ~
~A~ Mostly Historical *~
British Museum of the History of Science offers this online display of its collection of cameras, early photographic lenses and accessories, and darkroom equipment. It also includes examples of early photographs and useful explanations of the early methods and technology. A History of Photography (from its beginnings till the 1920s ) This is designed to be a resource on the history of photography. In addition to brief discriptions of many of the most important photographers of the period, it contains information on some of the most significant processes used during the early days of photography. Site by Dr. Robert Leggat MA M.Ed FRPS FRSA
StillJournalPhoto Photography has a rich history characterised by rapid development and change over the past two centuries. This site aims aims to capture current cultural trends in photography by highlighting creative work and technique across the web.
Artlex : Visual Arts Dictionary Online Start here with a definition of photography and follow links on and off site for valuable resources.
See numerous examples of photographs:
The World's First Photograph Learn about Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and the first photograph. Find out what happened to it here.
Photographic Historical Society of Canada includes PHOTOGRAPHIC CANADIANA & topics/links (wood and brass cameras, early colour process called the Autochrome, online museums)
The Daguerrian Society a number of galleries of stunning 19th century imagery as well as the work of modern daguerreians.
Matthew Brady's Portraits Smithsonion Institute presents Mathew Brady's portraits and explains photographic process used by the photographer.
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
streoscopic photography, early examples of American photography that can be used to demonstrate various principles of media 6. Photography & Prints (50 collections listed)
7, Panoramic Photographs ~ 1851-1991 (approximately 4000 images )
The American Museum of Photography Links to a wide range of exhibitions : Three galleries of images from Talbot to Ansel Adams, informal portraits from the Dawn of Photography , the art of the Carte de Visite, the Daguerreotype and information on dozens of early photographic processes.
Pinoneers of early photography were not just men. Media contains values and beliefs...... "take pictures of women or women take pictures".
A selection of early American photography. Of special media interest is the online exhibit Performing Arts in the American West 19th century
Description: Lewis Wickes Hine's self described "work portraits" series began shortly after World War I when he returned from Europe where he was working with the American Red Cross documenting the plight of war refugees. This time, instead of documenting the decrepit working conditions of men, women and children in American factories, he chose to glorify the worker and the machine in a more positive way.
Description: American master photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is probably best known for Changing New York, her 1935-1938 Federal Art Project documentation of the city's rapidly changing built environment.
Description: Lewis Hine was commissioned to photograph the construction of the building in 1930. Taking many of the risks the construction workers endured, Hine photographed the workers in precarious positions while they secured the iron and steel framework of the structure. In order to obtain the best vantage points, Hine was swung out in a specially designed basket 1,000 feet above Fifth Avenue.
Images of African Americans : 19th century Civil War and post-war photography that depicts African American culture and American social roles. Media principles of constructed reality and values & ideologies can be seen in these examples.
Harlem 1900 -1940 : The photography depicts African American culture and American social roles in Harlem during the early part of the 20th century.
Description: An online exhibit that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program.
Pictorialism: Photography as Art Most of the photographers participating in the salon exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were known as pictorialists. The technique was controversial, different from documentary or realistic photography. In some ways the fore-runner of digital imaging.
Pictorialists and Snapshooters Between 1890 and 1910,changes in the photo process meant photographers no longer needed to prepare their own negatives or know how to mix developing chemicals or make their own printing paper. These technological changes brought about numerous alterations in photographic practice. Learn about avocational artistic photography, and the emergence of snapshooting and event or street photography.
Includes nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography. Online resources and exhibits are broken into the following categories: general and historical - dauuerreotypes, landscape, portrait, aerial and space, nature and science, and documentary .
George Eastman House : Online Museum of Photography
Includes: photography from 1839 to today, the Pre-Cinema Project( images of media and devices used before motion picture film ), images of photographic equipment and related technologies , the still photography collections ( by subject ).
The GEH Brownie Collection What is a brownie and where did Kodak come from ?
Graflex.Org Dedicated to promoting the use and preservation of Graflex Speed Graphics and other classic and large-format cameras.
For photographs from around the world go to:
C] Magnumphotos
D] Centropa historians are compiling the largest online library of privately owned pre (and post)-Holocaust family photographs ever assembled in Central and Eastern Europe.
~ B ~ Pinhole Cameras & Alternative Photography * ~
What happens when you combine polaroid film processing with pinhole cameras or transfer a polaroid image to glass or stone? What is created when you blend digital imaging with the photograph processes of the 19th century?By combining the older photography techniques and methods with the new technology of today, new art forms and media are invented.Pinhole Photography: History, Images & Cameras Pinhole photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera. Includes: Pictorialism and Popular Pinhole Photography.
Handmade Pinhole Paper Camera - the pinhole camera that becomes a photograph
Pinhole Photography Educational Site - Information on pinhole photography, camera project, history, images & links.
Pinhole Visions - The Art of Pinhole Photography - News and events relating to the art of pinhole photography around the world.
Oatmeal Box Camera and other alternative photographic technologies : Instuctionsand examples of - 3-Dimensional pictures, Blueprints/Cyanotypes, Fake Daugerreotypes, Pinhole Cameras & Photograms, Solarizations & Van Dyke Brownprints .
cyanotypes.com - alternative photography galleries , "how-to-do", and various links.
Jane Linders Photography a photographer's gallery - cyanotype, holga, polaroid, and experimental hybrid.
Photographers Using Alternative Techniques
Jack Kozieilski: Canadian gallery of Polaroid image transfer art .
Cynthia Davis: Polaroid SX-70 camera and Time Zero film to create painterly photographs of still life and landscapes.
Uliasz, Marek: Photography and Polaroid transfer art of ghost towns and lost sites of Colorado, returns to Poland, and New Mexico adobe churches.
Alternative-Photography Gallery (photographers and articles)
Photoconvergence: this site is to provide an educational resource in which students and interested individuals can come to learn more about different processes involved in the creation of photography
Toycamera.com This site was started as just two people with an interest in Plastic Cameras. These funny little cameras can be used to take odd and compelling images. The results can be surprising and unexpected. These cheap plastic cameras provide an outlet for those who have a desire to create personal art or experiment with photography using simple technology and basic techniques in a crative way.
