History of Photography

A daguerreotype is made by exposing a plate, which has been treated with silver iodide and other chemicals, to the action of light. keep reading →

Photographic images can be etched on glass by using a gum bichromate print as an intermediate. The process gives a "print" from a positive transparency, the image appearing... keep reading →

Stereoviews (also known as stereographs or stereoscopic cards) are among the first form of 3D photography. The pictures are taken with a special stereoscopic camera, which... keep reading →

19th century photography Photos are a form of documentation, freezing little moments in time. Your collection of photos provides you with information about the... keep reading →

Carleton Watkins Photograph at Yosemite Valley. Photos like this helped to establish Yosemite as a National Park in 1864. Known as the American West’s greatest documentary... keep reading →

Fidel V. Ramos' Crib in Batangas, Philippines. http://classic-film-shot.blogspot.com "With the rise of digicams and DSLRs, film has slowly become the minority in the... keep reading →

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1789-1851), French inventor of the first practical process of photography, the daguerreotype. He was also an artist, and the inventor of the... keep reading →

The history of photography has taken many twists and turns over the years. We have seen huge leaps of invention over the past century and it is a real wonder thinking about... keep reading →

History of Photography Photography started out commercially in France and Britain. France and Britain competed to produce cameras and the film necessary trying... keep reading →

By Dexter Yarbrough. One of the most famous black photographers was James Van Der Zee (1886-1983) who lived in Harlem in New York and ran a photographic studio there from... keep reading →