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The Strange Case of a Street Fair Booth
Photograph by: Eugène Atget Image Source: J. Paul Getty Museum Amongst the many Parisian scenes that caught the perceptive eyes of Eugène Atget, storefront displays were one of his favourites. This...
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In 1988, the creators of Photoshop approached Nikon to offer the rights to buy the program. They turned it down because they believed that they were not a software company.
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A Pioneer’s Love for Botany
Photograph by: William Henry Fox Talbot Image Source: Metropolitan Museum courtesy the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936 Did you know that William Henry Fox Talbot had a great love for botany? It was his...
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The Overlooked Legacy of a Visionary
Photograph by: Oscar Gustave Rejlander Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The debate about the role of photography is as old as the medium itself. Some think of it strictly for documentation purposes,...
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The Genesis of Artificial Light
The first record of artificial light photography dates back to L Ibbetson’s use of an oxy-hydrogen light (otherwise called limelight) to capture images of microscopic objects. The limelight was...
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Unmasking the Horrors of War
Photograph by: Horace Nicholls Image Source: Wikimedia Commons During WWI, Britain’s political, social and economic spheres took a massive beating. Soldiers either didn’t return from war or arrived...
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Visionary Pioneers and Their Stories of Persistence
The early pioneers of photography had no intentions of changing the world, or the medium itself. Even at the time of a discovery, they may not have realised the gravity of their finding. Whether it was...
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The Story Behind: All Work And No Play!
Photograph by: Lewis Hine/ Image Source:Library Of Congress / Written by: Vedika Singhania The early 1900s saw an increase in child labour, in the coal mining factories in the U.S. Commonly referred to...
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An Astounding Rescue from the Jaws of Death
Photograph by: Virginia Schau Image Source: Wikimedia Commons While the democratisation of photography has often been frowned upon, it has, however, proven to be quite effective, especially in the...
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And it Began with a Selfie
In October 1839, Robert Cornelius made the first self-portrait known to the world. Since daguerreotypes required a fair amount of time to imprint a subject onto its surface, he had to remain still for...
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Faces of the Great Depression
The Great Depression was photographed by some of the greatest photographers, one of them being Walker Evans, whose images captured a startling reality of the period. Commissioned by Fortune magazine,...
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Alfred François Donné of the Charité Hospital in Paris is perhaps the first person who applied photography in medicine. He began by making daguerreotypes of bone sections through a microscope.
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Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, an inventor from France, experimented with negatives created from albumen on glass. Soon after, the Langenheim brothers adopted this method to produce negatives on glass...
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Another Milestone for Humanity
Photograph/ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA Just when we think we explored every arena we possibly could, an event occurs which completely turns everything around. This is what happened when the European Space...
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The Photo that Defines China’s Bloody Saturday
Photograph by: H S Wong Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The image of the wailing and wounded baby sitting alone on a railway platform in China, moments after it was completely torn apart by Japanese...
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The Documenter of Vanishing Wonders
Photograph by: Eugène Atget Image Source: Getty Open Content Program Precision and elegance perhaps remain the most distinguishable characteristics of Eugène Atget’s images. The renowned French...
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Fighting Racial Prejudice Through Portraiture
Photographs by: Samuel J. Miller; Goerge Kendall Warren Image Source: Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment; The Library of Congress Born into slavery, Frederick Douglas rose to become a prominent...
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Of Strobes and Flashes
While the use of a flash (left) freezes the frame, a strobe (right) captures successive frames in one image. Photographs (left to right): Kevin K and Samira Pillai What is the stroboscopic effect? How...
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The Unsolved Conundrum of an Iconic Image
Photograph by: Unknown Image Source: Wikimedia Commons There are several iconic pictures of the Great Depression, but very few are as positive as the image above, Lunch Atop a Skyscraper. During the...
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The Unwavering Enigma of Billy the Kid
Photograph by: Unknown Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The American Wild West is synonymous with some of the most notorious figures in U.S. history, like Butch Cassidy, Jesse James and Wyatt Earp. But...
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