HISTORICAL TIMELINE PHOTOGRAPHY

 

1725               Johann Henrich schulze discover silver nitrate darkens when exposed to light

 

1827               Joseph  Nicephore Niepce create View from the window at le gras. Heligroph

 

1829               Louis Jacques Mande Dagurre partners with Nicephore Niepce

 

1835               Dagurre discover latent image

 

1839               Dagurre announces Dagurreotype in France to the Academie de Sciences William Henry Fox Talbot announces calotype in England to Royal Society of London.

 

1940-50         Anna Atkins produces cyanotype prints of algae specimens bound as editions

 

1842               Talbot published pencil of nature

 

2843               David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson collaborate to produce calotype portraits of Scottish gentry.

 

1847               Talbot’s calotype process is improved by Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrand

 

1849               Gustave LeGray creates waxed-paper process in France

 

 

1850               Frederick Scott Archer invents collodion process ( also known as wet- plate process)

L. D. Blanquart – Evard introduces albumen printing paper.

 

1851               First photograph using electric spark for illumination by W. H. F. Tablot Ambrotypes invented by Frederick Scott Archer.

 

1853               Tintype process invented – most common usage during Civil War

 

1854               Improvments to ambrotype made by James Ambrose Cutting and patented in U.S. Andre Disderi introduce Carte –de-visite.

 

1855               Roger Fenton photographs Crimean War, Valley of the Shadow of death.

 

1857               Oscar Gustave Rejlander exhibit combination print in two ways of life

 

1861               Nadar ( Felix Tournachon)  make 1^st photograph using artificial light under ground cave

 

1861-64         Matthew Brady introduces photographic documentation of Civil War

 

1863               Timothy O’Sullivan photographs Civil War, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

 

1863-75         Julia Margaret Cameron photographs family and friends

 

1865-80         Era of western photography ( William Henry Jackson, Eadweard Muybridge, Timothy O’Sullivan and Carleton E.Watkins)

 

1868               Thomas Annan begins documenting slum of Glasgow

 

1869               Henry Peach Robinson established pictorial effect in photography for aesthetic photographs

 

1871               Dry-plate announced by Richard Leach Maddox, but not perfected until 1878

 

1871-87         Muybridge established work on animal locomotion, a study in human movement

 

1880               Halftone reproduction appears in New York newspaper

 

1883-90         George Eastman introduce small camera using roll film interest in street life and snapshot photography emerges

 

1884               Thomas Eakins studies time and movement in photography, History a Jump

 

1888-90         Jacob Riis documents New York slums and publishes book How the Other Half Lives

 

1889               Peter Henry Emerson establish Naturalistic Photography which challenges philosophy of Henry Peach Robinson’s pictorial effect

 

1890- 1910    Pictroialist art movement in photography ( The Linked Ring, Photo-Club de Paris, Kleeblat, Photo –Secession),

 

1895               Alice Austin records domestic life, Hester Street Egg Stand.

 

1898               Eugene Atget begins photographing Paris

1899               Clarence H. White, The Ring Toss

 

1900               Gertrude Kasebier, Blessed Art Thou Among Women

 

1900-06         Edward S. Curtiws photograph North American Indians The Vanishing Race, 1904.

 

1903               Art journal, Camera Work, founded in U.S by Alfred Stieglitz.

 

1904               Lewis Hine begins work as social Photographer documenting child labor. Lumier Brothers invent Autochrome for color photographs.

 

1905               Alfred Stieglitz opens Little Gallery of Photo-Secession at 291 fifth Avenue New York, U. S.

 

1907               Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage.

 

1911-12         Futurism – experiments in Photodynamism by Bragaglia brothers in Italy.

 

1914- 42        Clarence White’s School of Photography opens in New York, the only school U.S. dedicated to art photography.

 

1915               Alvin Langdon, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand produce work based on modernist ideas.

 

1916               James VanDerZee open studio in Harlem, Couple in Racoon Coast (1929).

 

1919-28         Bauhaus is estabilished in Germany, influenced by Laszlo Moholy- Nagy and Alexander Rodchenko.

1920               Experiment with photo collage and photo montage as part of Dada & Surrealist movements.

 

1923               Hannah Hoch, The Cut of Kitchen knife, montage.

 

1924               35mm Leica camera using inexpensive standard movie stock film invented by Oscar Barnack of Leitz Company.

 

1929               August Sander publishes Anlitz Der Zeit ( Face of Our Time), a compilation of work begun in 1910 depicting individuals and groups from all class in Germany until Nazi censured the work in 1934.

 

1930 – 40      f/64 group established. Photographers include  Edward Weston, Ansel Adam and Imogen Cunningham.

Ansel Adams and Fred Archer develop The Zone System

 

1930               Edward Weston, Pepper

 

1932               Henri Cartier – Bresson – The Decisive Moment

 

1935 -42        Farm Security Administration established an extensive documentary project in U.S. Photographers include Dorthea Lange, Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn.

 

1936               The Photo League founded New York City promote photographs as social document, Photographers included Bernice Abbott, Lewis Hine, Lisette Model, Walter Rosenblum, Aaron Siskind, and Paul Strand. Kodachrome introduced for 35mm cameras Dorothea Lange, Migrant mother. Life magazine hits the stands with photographs by Margaret Bourke-White.

 

1940               Museum of Modern Art opens department of Photography.

 

1948               W. Eugene Smith photo essay, Country Doctor, appears in Life Magazine.

 

1955               Family of man exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, organized by Edward Steichen.

Roy DeCarava, The sweet of Life, a collaboration wi9th writer Langston Hughes about life in harlem

 

1958               Robert Frank, The Americans

 

1960-70s       Photographer begin emphasizing social urban landscape: Garry Winogrand,  Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon.

Duane Michals produce sequential images presentating time lapse as narrative Jerry Uelsmann creates complex multi-image allegories

Ralph Eugene Meatyards create fictional narrative to revel psychological conditions in documentary style 1967

Friends of Photography established by Ansel Adams and Beaumont and Nancy Newhall.

 

1970-80         Larry Clarck, Tulsa

Bill Owen , Suburbia

Johnathan Green, The snapshot, examines aesthetic of snapshot and relation-ship to contemporary photography.

 

1977-79         Rephotographic Survey Project formed by Mark Klett, Ellen Manchester, JoAnn Verburg, Gordon bushaw and Rick Dingus to rephotograph 19^th century west-ern survey site

1978-79         Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Stills.

 

1980 -90        Richard Prince challenges advertising imagery by photographing and cropping images found in magazines ( postmodernists call this appropriation)

Barbara Kruger challenge media and stereotypes with billboard size imagery incorporating text, Untitled (Your Body Is A Battleground)

Sandy Skoglund create room-size installations, then photographs them for final image, Revenge of the Goldfish, 1981

Nancy Burson, Richard Carling, and david Kramlich use digital imaging to construct a portrait using imagery from several different individual portraits, Mankind.

 

1990- 2000    Photographers explore multiculturalism and identity Sally Mann challenges photographic art and parenthood in Immediate family

Carrie Mae Weems exmines myth and religion in African – American history

Clarissa Sligh investigate snapshots to discover differences between memory and picture

Timeline information extracted from World history of Photography by Naomi Rosenburg

Seizing the Light, A history of Photography , by Robert Hirsch

 

 

 

M, Joy (2004). Exploring Basic Black & White Photography, New York: Thomson Delmar Learning Publishing.