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A Sequential Record of Madness
Photograph/Albert Londe Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Since the ancient times till about the early 20th century, did you know that hysteria was labelled as a disorder that only affected women? In the...
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The Selfiest City of Them All!
Better Photography’s Selfie Brigade. Clockwise from the top left: Aditya Nair, Ambarin Afsar, Supriya Joshi, Shridhar Kunte with K Madhavan Pillai, Natasha Desai and Conchita Fernandes As much as you...
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The First Streaks of Light
Image Source: www.lightpaintingphotography.com Photographs of light trails have always enthralled and fascinated people. But then, have you ever wondered how this technique first came about? Unlike...
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Into the Jaws of Death
Image Source: US National Archives and Records Administration The iconic image was made on 6 June 1944 as soldiers from the US Army First Division disembarked at Omaha Beach in Normandy during World...
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The Ultimate Sacrifice
Photograph by: Arthur Barrett. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The annals of the history of human rights movements are filled with stories of courageousness and selfless acts of defiance. The image...
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Iconic, But No Real Impact?
Photograph/Dorothea Lange; Image Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection Famous photojournalist Dorothea Lange found her attention drawn by a sign board that...
View ArticleThe Origin of the Word ‘Pixel’
Digital photography has made the word ‘pixel’ extremely common, but did you know that this term is actually rather old? Also known as ‘pel’, a pixel refers to the smallest unit that a photograph can be...
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The Story Behind: A Perfect Landscape from Mars
Photograph/ Curiosity Mars rover One could hardly ever imagine that a seemingly bare planet, cloaked in red dust could ever have something truly serene, or even earth–like about it. On 15 April 2015,...
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Prevalence of Hope Over Despair
Photograph/Ansel Adams Captured by the renowned American photographer Ansel Adams, this photograph shows female captives practicing the art of calisthenics at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in...
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Shot and Framed, Framed and Shot
Photograph/Unknown Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Joseph Stalin is credited with having carried out systematic campaigns of suppression and terror against individuals that had fallen out of his...
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The Story Behind: Dreamy, Moody and Ethereal
Photograph /Edward Steichen and Image Source/The J Paul Getty Museum Edward Steichen photographed The Pond-Moonlight in 1904, in the wetlands around Mamaroneck, New York. It is an iconic pictorialist...
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The Story Behind: The First Image of the Earth from Space
Image Source/White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory When you think of the most iconic photograph of the earth, the first image that comes to mind is Blue Marble, shot in 1972, by the...
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Portraying a Dehumanised Period
Photograph by/Paul Strand and Image Source/The J Paul Getty Museum Legendary photographer, Walker Evans once said, “I remember coming across Paul Strand’s Blind Woman when I was very young, and that...
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The Lightning War
Photograph/Dickenson V Alley Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Nikola Tesla, inventor and engineer extraordinaire, devoted his career to the fields of electromagnetism and wireless radio communications....
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The Beginnings of Wildlife Imagery in National Geographic
Photograph/George Shiras III and Image Source/Wikimedia Commons Over a century ago, when George Shiras III began using the flashlight-trapping technique to photograph animals, it was new and unheard...
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The Survivors of the Titanic Tragedy
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The Titanic was a famed passenger ship that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. It is remembered in history as one of the greatest tragedies of...
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The Story Behind: The Nuclear Cloud Over Nagasaki
Photograph/Charles Levy and Image Source/Wikimedia Commons Two days after the nuclear bomb was detonated in Hiroshima, Bockscar—a military vessel, arrived at Nagasaki on 9 August. It had one task, to...
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The Survivors of the Titanic Tragedy
Photograph/Louis Mansfield Ogden. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The Titanic was a famed passenger ship that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. It is remembered in history as...
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Lighting Up The Ghosts Of The Past!
Image Source/Wikimedia Commons In the history of image projection systems, the first known invented device is the Magic Lantern. It was used extensively way back in the 18th and 19th century and is...
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The Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph
Photograph/James Wallace Black. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons James Wallace Black was in a hot air balloon, 2000 feet above the ground, when he used eight plates of glass negatives to make the very...
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