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The Survivors of the Titanic Tragedy
This article was originally published in August 2016. 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...
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A Thing of Beauty
While the process was patented in 1841, on 23 September, 1840, Talbot discovered how a solution of gallic acid could be used to bring out an image made on chemically treated paper, even if it had just...
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The Book of Optics
The Arab mathematician, astronomer and physicist, Ibn al Haytham (or Alhazen) made noteworthy contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception. He is known best for having written the...
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Into the Jaws of Death
Image Source: US National Archives and Records Administration This story was originally published in August 2012. The iconic image was made on 6 June 1944 as soldiers from the US Army First Division...
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Photogenic Drawings
William Henry Fox Talbot began contemplating the idea of imprinting natural images in a durable manner after futile attempts to sketch a scene using a drawing aid called the camera lucida. In...
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Captivating Photomontages
Fading Away by Henry Peach Robinson. Henry Peach Robinson is known best for his pioneering work with photomontages. He did not adhere to the idea that the camera was meant purely for documentation....
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The Grand Hoax
This story was originally published in May 2017. Throughout human history, the ability to use technology as a tool for good is always at odds with those who would wield it to prey on people. The early...
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A Gift to the World
Photograph/Louis Daguerre Image source: Wikimedia Commons Louis Daguerre entered into an association with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1829, to make improvements to the latter’s process. After Niépce’s...
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Harry Pointer’s Iconic Carte de Visite
Photographs/Harry Pointer Image source: Wikimedia Commons Harry Pointer from Brighton became well-known for featuring his pet cats in a series of carte-de-visite photographs. Pointer managed to make...
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The First Photo of a US Presidential Inauguration
This article was originally published in May 2017. When the US Capitol was still under construction, John Wood shot the first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration. The photo depicts the...
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The Birth of Hasselblad
Hasselblad’s first consumer camera, the 1600F. Fritz Wiktor Hasselblad established the company in 1841 as a trading firm. Early on, they began to import products and supplies for photographers. His...
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An Early 3-D Fixation
Stereographs are an early form of three-dimensional photographs, wherein two seemingly identical pictures would be placed side-by-side on cardboard. They were then viewed through a stereoscope to...
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The Story Behind: The Nuclear Cloud Over Nagasaki
Photograph/Charles Levy and Image Source/Wikimedia Commons This article was originally in May 2016. Two days after the nuclear bomb was detonated in Hiroshima, Bockscar—a military vessel, arrived at...
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The Man Who Staged His Own Death
Although Louis Daguerre is credited for creating a method that produced direct positives, it is believed that Hippolyte Bayard managed to do the same through his own methods in 1839, sometime before...
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The First-ever Japanese Camera
In 1934, Japan-based Seikikogaku kenkyusho produced a prototype for the country’s first-ever 35mm camera with a focal-plane-based shutter, called the Kwanon. In 1947, the company’s name was changed to...
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The Story Behind: The First Image of the Earth from Space
Image Source/White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory This article was originally published in May 2016. When you think of the most iconic photograph of the earth, the first image that...
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Photography for a Cause
A sociologist, teacher and photographer, Lewis Hine realised in 1904 that photography could be used as a medium for social change. He went on to create some significant work in the field. After...
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The Beginning of Motion Pictures
A souvenir strip of Edison Kinetoscope Eugene Sandow, the modern Hercules. Image courtesy: W.K.L. Dickson/Wikimedia Commons Filmstrip of Butterfly Dance (ca. 1895), an early Kinetoscope film produced...
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The Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph
Photograph/James Wallace Black. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published in July 2016. James Wallace Black was in a hot air balloon, 2000 feet above the ground, when he...
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Photography as an Art Form
An established sculptor, Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon also came to be known as an exceptional portrait photographer in France, after he started shooting in 1858. His style of making pictures enabled...
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