History of photography from 1544 - 1942

1. A Brief History of
Photography

2. Camera Obscura

3. Invented, 1544

4. Abelardo Morell, 1996, Manhattan Looking South

5. Early Inventors
Niepce, Daguerre, Talbot, Bayard

6. Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1826-27, View from his Window at Le Gras

7. Louis Daguerre, 1839, Shells and Fossils

8. Hippolyte Bayard, 1840, Portrait of a Drowned Man

9. William Henry Fox Talbot, 1844, The Open Door

10. The Civil War
1861-1865, Beginnings of Staged Photography

11. Alexander Gardener, 1863, Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter

12. Timothy O’sullivan, 1863, A Harvest of Death

13. Pictorialism
The Roots of Aestheticism

14. Eadweard Muybridge, 1878, Galloping Horse, Motion Study

15. Alfred Stieglitz, 1892, Winter on Fifth Avenue

16. Gertrude Käsebier, 1899, Blessed Art Thou Among Women

17. Edward Steichen, 1906, Moonlight: The Pond

18. Clarence H White, 1908, Morning

19. Eugene Atget, 1912, Window, Corset Shop

20. Modernism
Abstraction & Industrialization

21. Paul Strand, 1916, Wall Street

22. László Moholy-Nagy, 1923, Untitled (Double Portrait)

23. Man Ray, 1924, Untitled (Gun w/ Alphabet Squares)

24. Charles Sheeler, 1927, Criss-Crossed Conveyors – Ford Plant

25. Edward Weston, 1930, Pepper #30

26. Ansel Adams, 1942, Grand Tetons and Snake River

27. Social Documentary
Injustices, Hardships & Labor

28. Jacob A Riis, 1889, Five Cents Lodging Bayard Street

29. Lewis Hine, 1908, Girl Worker in Carolina Cotton Mill

30. E.J. Bellocq, 1912, Storeyville Portraits: Untitled Plate 27
(Reclining Nude w/ a Mask)

31. August Sander, 1914, Young Farmers Westerwald

32. Walker Evans, 1935, Bethlehem Graveyard and Steel Mill

33. Dorothea Lange, 1936, Migrant Mother

34. Berenice Abbott, 1937, Gunsmith and Police Department

35. Gordon Parks, 1942, American Gothic