Photography History
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Photography was a hands-on practice back when it was invented in 1839. Today, photographer Eileen Rafferty will explore the practical resources to mimic the original techniques of handmade photography. You'll be inspired to take this crafted handmade approach to your images.
0:00 - Intro
3:38 - Early Photography
14:49 - Victorian Photocollage
24:40 - Cyanotypes, Lumens, and Chemigrams
33:51 - Lumens
39:08 - Chemigrams
46:24 - Alternative Printing and Surfaces
48:23 - Workshops
52:56 - Overprinting and Underprinting
56:47 - Closing
57:53 - Q
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Women photographers take center stage in this week’s show in celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. We reveal the blind spot of photo history in a chat about the book A World History of Women Photographers, with photo historian and co-author Luce Lebart and contributing writer Pauline Vermare.
Gracing the pages of this book’s 500-page heft are images and stories behind 300 women photographers, spanning photo history and geographic reach. Listen in to learn about the exhaustive process Lebart and co-author Marie
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This is one of the most enjoyable chats on photography we’ve had in a while, and our subject is the history of amateur and popular photography as understood through photography how-to books and manuals. Joining us on the B&H Photography Podcast is Dr. Kim Beil, professor at Stanford University and author of Good Pictures: The History of Popular Photography, and with Professor Beil we not
Every time you pick up your camera, you are participating in nearly two centuries of technological and artistic innovation. The history of photography is a winding path full of mad scientists, boisterous critics, and groundbreaking artists. While you are home, why not binge on the stories that have come to make photography such an influential way of seeing and representing the world? Here are some places to get started.
Explora’s “Historical Processes” series dives into the history and drama surrounding early photographic processes.
The earliest photographers faced a dilemma spurred by the near-simultaneous invention of two very different kinds of photographs: daguerreotypes and salted paper prints. Daguerreotypes were cherished for their extraordinary detail and beauty but lacked the ability to be easily reproduced. Alternatively, many copies could be made from a single paper negative but the resulting prints lacked the exacting resolution of daguerreotypes. Paper would eventually become the standard for pre-digital photography, but refinements to Talbot’s process were
William Henry Fox Talbot was no artist. While on his honeymoon in Italy, the English inventor famously attempted sketches with the aid of a camera lucida, a drawing device used by travelers to record landscape views. His confession of failure has become legendary in histories of photography:
One of the first days of the month of October 1833, I was amusing myself on the lovely shores of the Lake of Como, in Italy, taking sketches with Wallaston's camera lucida, or rather I should say, attempting to take them: but with the smallest possible