history of landscape photography timeline by isabelle orman
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History of Landscape Photography Timeline
ByIsabelle Orman
To 1850
Photography
• 1807 - Camera Lucida invented by William Hyde Wollaston
• 1822 – Louis Daguerre develops the Diorama
• 1826 - Joseph Niepce creates first photograph
• “View from a window at Gras”
• 1837 - Daguerre produces the first Daguerrotype
• 1839 - Hippolyte Bayard makes positive image on paper
• 1840s – Talbot develops the calotype and publishes “The Pencil of Nature”
• 1846 –Zeiss establishes lens factory Photographers
• Daguerre, Joseph Niepce, Hippolyte Bayard, William Fox Talbot
Boulevard du Temple, 1838 by Louis Daguerre
View from the Window at Le Gras, 1826 by Joseph Niepce
Study of Tree, 1840 by William Fox Talbot
1851 - 1900 Photography
• 1850 – Albumen paper introduced by Blanquart Everard
• 1852 – Society of Arts, London exhibits 779 photographs
• 1861 – Maxwell demonstrates 3-colour theory
• 1864 – J.W. Swann develops carbon transfer process
• 1877 – First electric light studio
• 1884 – Amateur Photographer magazine established
• 1880s - Eastman produces flexible film; also develops the first Kodak with a film of 100 pictures
• 1885 – Half-tone developed
• 1891 – First Telephoto lens
• 1900 – Kodak sells “Brownie” camera for $1
Landscape Photographers
◦ Oscar Rejlander, Roger Fenton, Timothy O’Sullivan , Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz
Two Ways of Life (1857) – photomontage by Oscar Rejlander
Bobbin Mill at Hurst Green, 1858 by Roger Fenton
Distant View of the Domes, Yosemite Valley, California 1861 by Carleton Watkins
1901 - 1925 Photography
• 1902 – First issue of “Camera Work” magazine (USA)
• 1904 – First colour process (Autochrome)
• 1905 – 291 Photographic gallery opened in New York by Alfred Steiglitz
• 1907 – Daily Mail was first paper to have all photographic images
• 1924 – Leitz manufacture first Leica camera (Germany)
• 1922 – Renger-Patsch begins realism photograph of everyday objects
Landscape Photographers
• William Henry Jackson, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Edward Steichen
High Bridge in Loop, 1925 by William Henry Jackson
The Oregon Coast, 1909 by Edward Weston
Wall Street, New York, 1915 by Paul Strand
1926 - 1950 Photography
• 1927 - BBC founded
• 1932 – f64 Group founded (USA)
• 1935 – Farm Security Administration begins photographing rural conditions in America;
• over 270,000 images produced
• New magazines issued in USA – Life (1936) and Picture Post (1938)
• 1936 – Kodachrome film first available
• 1947 – Magnum Photographic Agency founded;
• Polaroid camera first marketed Landscape Photographers
• Albert Renger-Patzsch, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke
Schubert & Salzer factory, Ingolstadt, 1950 by Albert Renger-Patzsch
Fish Market Near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936 by Walker Evans
The Hoover Dam from Across the Colorado River, 1941by Ansel Adams
1951 - 1975Photography
• 1952 – Cartier-Bresson publishes “The Decisive Moment”;
First issue of “Aperture” magazine
• 1958 – Robert Frank publishes “The Americans”
• 1963 – Polaroid launches instant colour version; Kodak launch colour Instamatic
• 1966 – International Centre of Photography set up in New York
• 1971 – Photographers Gallery opened in London
Landscape Photographers
• Fay Godwin, Robert Adams, Bill Brandt, Robert Frank
Gas save, Santa Fe, 1956 by Robert Frank
Ear on the Beach,1957 by Bill Brandt
Rotting Car, Cliffe Lagoon, 1982 by Fay Godwin
1975 - Photography
• 1975 – New Topographics Exhibition, New York
• 1976 – First SLR camera with TTL flash metering
• 1983 – Opening of National Museum Film, Photography & Television, Bradford
• By 1980 most photographers use colour rather than B&W
• 1990s widespread availability of digital cameras
Landscape Photographers
• John Davies, Jem Southam, Edward Burtynsky, Martin Parr
Jubilee Street Party, Elland Yorkshire, 1977 by Martin Parr
Newton Moore Farm, 1985 by Jem Southam OCAR Oil Fields #3, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006 by Eward Burtynsky