History of Photography

Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry

2010-10-01T12:45:00.000-07:00

Afghan Girl
by Steve McCurry
used as cover for June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine
Kodachrome color slide film
1984

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sharbat_Gula.jpg

higher res: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2009/354/f/1/Sharbat_Gula_by_LMEF2009.jpg

Copyright. Steve McCurry. For educational use only

Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله, literally "Flower Sherbet") (pronounced [ˈʃaɾbat]) (born ca. 1972) is an Afghan woman who was the subject of a famous photograph by journalist Steve McCurry. Gula was living in a refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed. The image brought her recognition when it was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine, at a time when she was approximately 12 years old. Gula was known throughout the world simply as the Afghan Girl until she was formally identified in early 2002.

Wilbur & Orville Wright, Side view of flight 41

2010-09-29T12:34:00.000-07:00

Wilbur & Orville Wright
Side view of flight 41, showing the machine traveling to the right, with double horizontal rudder in front and double vertical rudder behind, as Orville flew 12 miles; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio
Dry plate glass negative
1905
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Edward Muybridge animated gif

2010-08-25T09:19:00.001-07:00

Edward Muybridge
Animated gif of Horse Locomotion
click here for the animation

Clara Barton by Mathew B. Brady

2010-08-24T14:17:00.001-07:00

Clara Barton
by Mathew B. Brady
Daguerreotype
c. 1865

Egypt: Gizeh, Magic Lantern Slide

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Egypt: Gizeh
Anonymous
no date
Magic Lantern Slide
Brooklyn Museum, Libraries and Archives: Lantern Slide Collection

Untitled, Storeyville Portraits, #17 by Bellocq

2010-02-22T13:54:00.000-08:00

Untitled, Storeyville Portraits, #17
E. J. Bellocq
ca. 1911-1913, printed after 1967
gelatin silver print on gold-toned paper
sheet: 10 x 8 in
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of William and Sandra Christenberry

Man Ray, Compass

2009-12-07T14:13:00.000-08:00

Man Ray
Compass
Gelatin Silver Print
1920
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in

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Dr. Harold Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet

2009-07-23T07:01:00.000-07:00

Dr. Harold Edgerton
Milk Drop Coronet
C-type print
1957

© Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2002
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Duchamp, by Alfred Stieglitz

2009-07-08T11:14:00.000-07:00

Alfred Stieglitz
Duchamp
Gelatin Silver Print
1923

Eddie Adams, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon

2009-07-08T11:09:00.000-07:00

Eddie Adams
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon
Gelatin Silver Print
February 1, 1968

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Ludwig Zehnder, X-Ray photograph of a Human Body

2009-06-22T07:38:00.000-07:00

Ludwig Zehnder
X-Ray photograph of a Human Body
montage of nine x-ray films
1896
Deutsches Museum, Munich

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H. H. Bennett, Instant Photograph

2009-06-22T07:12:00.000-07:00

H. H. Bennett
Instant Photograph
1885
H. H. Bennett Collection

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Jacques Henri Charles au Lartigue, Soapbox Derbies. Continued...

2009-06-18T07:41:00.000-07:00

Jacques Henri Charles au Lartigue
Soapbox Derbies. Continued...
Gelatin Silver Print
1911

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Dorothea Lange, Migrant agricultural worker's family (Migrant Mother)

2009-06-17T08:16:00.000-07:00

Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California (Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series)
1936
The Library of Congress

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Edward Weston, Nude

2009-06-17T06:34:00.000-07:00

Edward Weston
Nude
1925
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson

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Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage

2009-06-17T06:30:00.001-07:00

Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage
photogravure
1907

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Mathew Brady, Civil War Battlefield

2009-06-17T06:25:00.000-07:00

Mathew Brady
Civil War Battlefield
1862
daguerreotype

Upper Torso Darkroom Tent, illustration

2009-06-12T14:27:00.000-07:00

Upper Torso Darkroom Tent
1859

Dark room tent, type used for doing wet-plate collodion photography, illustration

2009-06-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

Dark room tent, type used for doing wet-plate collodion photography
1850s

Adolf Miethe, Trichrome

2009-06-12T08:18:00.000-07:00

Adolf Miethe
Trichrome
trichrome
1903
Fachhochschule, Cologne

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Paul Strand, Blind Woman

2009-06-12T08:14:00.000-07:00

Paul Strand
Blind Woman
photogravure
1912
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu

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Photo of John Singer Sargent Painting Outdoors

2009-06-10T13:59:00.001-07:00

Photo of John Singer Sargent Painting Outdoors
c. 1885

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George Inness in His Studio

2009-06-10T13:53:00.000-07:00

George Inness in His Studio
1890
Smithsonian Institute, Archives of American Art

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Photo of Egon Schiele

2009-06-10T13:52:00.000-07:00

Photo of Egon Schielez
c. 1918

Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma

2009-06-10T07:32:00.000-07:00

Arthur Rothstein
Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma
April 1936
Library of Congress

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Timothy O'Sullivan, Ancient ruins in the Cañon de Chelle

2009-06-10T07:20:00.000-07:00

Timothy O'Sullivan
Ancient ruins in the Cañon de Chelle
albumen print
27.5 x 20.2 cm
Library of Congress

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William Henry Fox Talbot, Tree

2009-06-09T18:49:00.000-07:00

William Henry Fox Talbot
Tree
calotype
c. 1842

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Departure of the Dirgible Zodiac III

2009-06-09T08:09:00.000-07:00

Léon Gimpel
Departure of the Dirgible Zodiac III
August 28, 1909
Sociéte Francaise de Photographie, Paris

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Above the Clouds Midnight Passes

2009-06-09T08:07:00.000-07:00

Max Ernst
Above the Clouds Midnight Passes
photographic enlargement of a photomontage
1920
28 3/4 x 21 3/4 in
Graphische Sammlung, Kunsthaus, Zürich

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Edmond Audemars in a Blériot XI

2009-06-09T07:52:00.000-07:00

Jacques Henri Charles au Lartigue
Edmond Audemars in a Blériot XI
from a stereoscopic glass negative
September 15, 1912
6 x 13 cm

President Lincoln at Sharpsburg (Antietam)

2009-06-09T07:50:00.000-07:00

Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan
President Lincoln at Sharpsburg (Antietam)
wet collodion, glass
1862
The Library of Congress

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Lewis Hine, Breaker Boys

2009-06-04T10:59:00.000-07:00

Lewis Hine
Breaker Boys, Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania
January 1911
The Library of Congress

Ulysses S. Grant, photo and engraving from Harper's Weekly

2009-06-04T06:08:00.000-07:00

Ulysses S. Grant
photo and engraving from Harper's Weekly
gelatin silver print and wood engraving

Lumière Brothers, Young Lady with an Umbrella

2009-06-04T06:00:00.000-07:00

Lumière Brothers
Young Lady with an Umbrella
autochrome
c. 1906
Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Lyons, France

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Gettysburg, Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den

2009-06-03T13:56:00.000-07:00

Alexander Gardner
Gettysburg, Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den
wet collodion
July 1863
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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A Harvest of Death

2009-06-03T13:46:00.000-07:00

Timothy H. O'Sullivan
printed by Alexander Gardner
A Harvest of Death
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
albumen silver print
July 1863
The Getty Museum

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Lewis Carroll, Alice Liddell

2009-06-03T07:08:00.000-07:00

Lewis Carroll
Alice Liddell
albumen print
1859

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Oscar Gustave Rejlander, The Two Ways of Life

2009-06-03T06:38:00.000-07:00

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
The Two Ways of Life
Combination albumen print
1857
Edinburgh Photographic Society

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Etienne Jules Marey, Camera Gun

2009-06-03T06:09:00.000-07:00

Etienne Jules Marey
Camera Gun
1882

F-Stops Diagram

2009-06-03T06:07:00.001-07:00

Man Ray, Le Violon d’Ingres

2009-06-02T19:01:00.000-07:00

Man Ray
Le Violon d’Ingres
gelatin silver print
1924

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Roentgen (the first X-ray image)

2009-06-02T18:54:00.000-07:00

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Roentgen (the first X-ray image)
X-ray
1895

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion

2009-06-02T18:48:00.000-07:00

Eadweard Muybridge
Animal Locomotion
Collotype
1887

Phototelegraphy, Hindenburg

2009-06-02T18:35:00.000-07:00

Photo transmitted by radio from New York to London on May 11, 1936, announcing the arival of the dirgible Hindenburg at Lakehurst
Phototelegraphy
May 11, 1936
private collection

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Anonymous, Girl on Chair

2009-06-02T18:30:00.000-07:00

Anonymous
Girl on Chair
hand-colored albumen copy print of a daguerreotype
c. 1850
Collection Beaumont Newhall, Santa Fe

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