Dorothea Lange: The Road West, New Mexico, 1938. Library of Congress. Photographers on Photography, the newest book from the author Henry Carroll, is …
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The Invention of the Camera: Photos from the 19th Century Onwards
The oldest negative still in existence was made in 1835 by William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1863, Julia Margaret Cameron was gifted her first camera; she'd go on to inspire generations of women. In 1899, Frances Benjamin Johnston received a commission to photograph the Hampton Institute, a private historically Black university located in Hampton, Virginia. From "the first female photojournalist in the US" to the "father of wildlife photography," we take a look at early pioneers.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Self-portrait with camera, © Digital Image Museum Associates/LACMA/Art Resource NY/Scala, Florence In 1863, a …
Credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) received a commission in 1899 to photograph …
Eugene Atget (French, 1857–1927), Boulevard de Strasbourg, Corsets, 1912. Gelatin silver chloride print. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of …
At the age of 20, Hugh Mangum set forth on a journey as an itinerant portraitist working in North Carolina and Virginia. The year was 1897, and the …
Following her death in 1963, Dora Kallmus, the photographer who went by the name Madame d’Ora fell into obscurity for decades. It is only now with …
