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Daguerreotypes and its Strenuous Process
Portrait of a daguerreotypist displaying daguerreotypes and its cases. Photographer/Unknown. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Making a daguerreotype was an arduous process. At first, the plates would be...
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The Story Behind: A Perfect Landscape from Mars
Photograph/ Curiosity Mars rover This article was originally published in May 2015. One could hardly ever imagine that a seemingly bare planet, cloaked in red dust could ever have something truly...
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A New Beginning
All photography by Felice Beato. Felice Beato, one of the early conflict photographers who had documented the Crimean War, went on to open a studio in Yokohama, Japan in 1863. His work greatly...
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The Largest Human Migration
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published in September 2017. The year 1947 was a watershed year in the history of the Indian subcontinent. It is estimated that around 12...
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Simple, Yet Marvellous
By announcing the method for creating albumen prints, Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard shared the first commercially viable method to create print images. The photographic chemicals could be bound to the...
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History in the Making
Albert Sands Southworth was a daguerreotypist who operated one of the early photographic firms in Boston called Southworth & Hawes. Along with his business partner, Josiah Johnson Hawes,...
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The Langenheim Brothers
German brothers William and Frederick Langenheim opened a portrait studio in Philadelphia in 1843. While William was the business manager, Frederick operated the camera. Together, they became two of...
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The First Photojournalist
The first known combat photographs were taken by an anonymous individual during the American-Mexican War of 1846-1847. Nevertheless, the Crimean War of the 1850s is where combat photography is said to...
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A Triumph and a Fall
The wet collodion process required gun cotton to be dissolved in a mixture of ether and alcohol, to which one added potassium iodide. The mixture was then carefully applied to a glass plate before...
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Portraying a Dehumanised Period
Photograph by/Paul Strand and Image Source/The J Paul Getty Museum This article was originally published in May 2016. Legendary photographer, Walker Evans once said, “I remember coming across Paul...
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The Beginning of Photography in America
In 1840, in the United States, the first photography-related patent was issued to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. His invention made it possible for people to make portraits of each other without...
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The Photomaton
Anatol Josepho, who had moved to the United States from Russia, invented the photo booth in 1925. His creation subsequently led to the formation of the Photomaton Company.
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The First Great Gig in the Sky
Photograph/William Nicholson Jennings Image Source: www.hyperallergic.com This article was originally published in November 2016. When William Nicholson Jennings began photographing lightning, he had...
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From Revolutions Past
To symbolise the Russian victory over Germany in WW II, the photographer made soldiers recreate the iconic image of US soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima, Japan. Photograph/Yevgeny Khaldei. Image...
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The Magic of Colour
In 1942, Eastman Kodak developed the Kodacolor process for making colour prints from colour negatives. It was the first amateur colour negative film, and was sold with the cost of processing and...
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Symbolising a Revolution
The uncropped version of Che Guevara’s iconic photograph. Photograph/Alberto Korda; Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published in August 2011. This picture, titled...
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Shot and Framed, Framed and Shot
Photograph/Unknown Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published in October 2015. Joseph Stalin is credited with having carried out systematic campaigns of suppression and...
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Lasting Imprints
The cyanotype process, created by Sir John Herschel, was initially only perceived to be a method to create blueprints of notes and diagrams. Trained in botany, Anna Atkins learned the process from...
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The Study of Human Anatomy
Prior to the advent of photography, medical practitioners made illustrations to explain their concepts. Duchenne de Boulogne saw potential in the camera’s invention and used it to document his...
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Dreamy Portraits
In 1863, Julia Margaret Cameron was 48 years old when she began making sage-like portraits with a spiritual quality. Her images, which met mixed responses, were considered bold for the times she lived...
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