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Over the past decade, the internet has changed how human beings can share knowledge with one another. It is now simple to create video, audio, image, or text files that can instantly be shared with people on the other side of the planet. This innovation has made it possible to combine different pieces of knowledge …
Photography from 19th c. Persia
Antoin Sevruguin (Persian 1830-1933 :آنتوان سورگین: ) was an Armenian-Iranian photographer in Iran, also known by the name Serunian, Sergruvian, Sevriogin, Sevrugin, and Sevraguine, during the reign of the Qajar dynasty (1785–1925). See more of Antoin Sevruguin’s photographs and glass plates in the collection at the Freer & Sackler Galleries – Smithsonian and click here to …
As we know today, the history of photography goes back into the ancient times when camera obscuras were used to form images on walls in a darkened room. Over centuries the quality output of the camera obscura has improved, but it was not until 1826 when Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce combined the camera obscura with …
Cynthia “Cindy” Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Through a number of different series of works, Sherman has sought to raise challenging and important questions about the role and representation of women …
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world’s first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839. He claimed to have invented photography earlier than Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre in …
In the previous blog posts we explored what photography is and also spoke about the history of photography. But in order to be able to speak about photography one should be familiar with basic photography terms. Below you will find an alphabetically sorted list of terms commonly used in photography: A ANGLE OF VIEW …
In my previousblog post, we’ve talked about what Photography is and now it’s time to dig deeper and explore its roots. The history of photography commenced with the invention and development of the camera and the creation of permanent images starting with Thomas Wedgwood in 1790 and culminating in the work of the French inventor …
Let’s start with the fact that Photography (derived from the Greek photos- for “light” and -graphos for “drawing”) is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor. …
