Baldus’s Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles aspired to use photography to make an imagined reality visible, tangible, and therefore achievable.
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Have you ever wondered what it took to take a photograph in the 1800s?
Muybridge, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion
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How do we picture a shifting urban landscape constantly on the verge of disappearing?
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“A poetics of drunkenness” is how the artist Martha Rosler once described her 24-panel photo-text installation, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems.
Martha Rosler, The Bowery in Two Inadequate ...
Galton, who founded the Eugenics movement made composite portraits to validate his stereotypes.
Francis Galton, eugenics, and photography
A drop of milk landing into a bowl makes an elegant crown shape, thanks to Edgerton’s stroboscope.
Harold Edgerton, Milk-Drop Coronet Splash
Notman's photograph of protruding ice provided a way for people to imagine the failure or success of a Canadian city’s ability to cope with the forces of nature.
William Notman, Ice Shove, Commissioner Street, Montreal
Architectural Anarchy in Mexico City not only conveys a critique towards the rapid growth of modernist architecture characteristic of changing time in Mexico, but it also challenges Mexican muralism.
Lola Álvarez Bravo, Architectural Anarchy in Mexico ...
Ferrez intentionally concealed the brutal and inhumane conditions of slavery in Brazil in his photograph
Marc Ferrez, Slaves at a Coffee Yard ...
In the 1860s Carleton Watkins loaded a team of mules with his mammoth-plate camera and glass negatives and ventured into Yosemite Valley.
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This photograph of Sihuana is a sensitive portrait of an Indigenous Peruvian man in traditional dress.
Martín Chambi, Juan de la Cruz Sihuana, ...
The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid
The story of Ernest Cole, a black ...
Referencing the photographs of Edward Curtis, Wilson intends to produce a contemporary visual reimagining of Native American culture through his photographs.
Will Wilson, Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange
Sally Mann’s iconic series “Immediate Family” features intimate black-and-white photographs of the artist's children, who eat, sleep, and play in an idyllic Southern landscape.
Sally Mann, Blowing Bubbles
Mofokeng lives in Johannesburg where he began his career as a photojournalist, but has long been engaged with the poetic and symbolic potential of black and white photography.
Figures & Fictions: Santu Mofokeng
Shanghai based photographers Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, aka Birdhead, make art about everyday life in their home town.
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Two important media were intertwined in 1950s Brazil: architecture and photography.
José Yalenti, Architecture or Twilight
Rodchenko depicted the rapidly changing world of newspapers, cameras, and telephones in new and unexpected ways.
Alexander Rodchenko, At the Telephone
This picture was taken to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s official state visit to the United States in 2007.
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