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The Workings of a Pinhole Camera
Da Vinic’s drawings comparing the eye to a camera obscura from Codex Atlanticus (1490-1495). In his twelve-volume body of work titled Codex Atlanticus, Leonadro da Vinci described and illustrated the...
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The Story of the Heart
Photograph by: Hilton T Image Source: GhN Dutch Archives Some of the most significant photographs in human history only very subtly convey their importance. The above image seems like a non descript...
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Chronicling the Indian Mutiny
Photograph/Felice Beato Image Source: Getty Open Content Program Pioneer war photographer Felice Beato, spent five decades traversing through East Asia photographing landmark events like the Crimean...
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A Racist Documentation of Human Types
Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-born naturalist and celebrated figure at Harvard University, has found his legacy in hot water in the 21st century. A vocal racist, Agassiz hired a man named J T Zealy to make a...
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A Brutal Punch
Image Source: Library of Congress After serving in the US infantry in WWI, Roy Emerson Stryker studied economics and followed the footsteps of his favourite economist Rexford Tugwell. He became a part...
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Humble Beginnings
The Giroux Daguerréotype developed in 1839 by Alphonse Giroux, Daguerre’s brother-in-law, was the first commercially-produced camera in the world.
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The First Photograph of an Airplane in Flight
Photograph by: John T Daniels Image Source: U.S. Library of Congress Kitty Hawk, a fishing village in North Carolina, found itself in the pages of history books, on the morning of 17 December 1903,...
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Capa and Taro: Mischief Managed
In 1930, a young André Friedmann left Hungary to study journalism and political science in Berlin. However, as the influence of the Nazi party grew, he moved to Paris. There, in 1934, he met Gerta...
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A Stubbornness to Succeed
Photograph by: Unknown Image Source: Wikimedia Commons Having born and lived through an era where women’s opinions were disregarded, Alice Catherine Evans saw a disease that affected thousands fall...
View ArticleDocumenting History
Nadar made a series of pictures of a person with intersex genitalia in 1860. It is believed that he was commissioned to do so for a medical study. It is also likely that these were the first such...
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An American Imbroglio
Photograph by: Unknown Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This photograph was taken in 1989, at a harbour in Valdez, Alaska. Valdez was where an ExxonMobil tanker began its brief journey before running...
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Play of Light
In 1727, Johann Heinrich Schulz, a German professor, discovered that the darkening of different substances mixed with silver nitrate occurred because of exposure to light, and not heat as was...
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The Secret Behind an Image of Horror
Photograph by: Jahangir Razmi Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The above image is one of the most deplorable depictions of Iran’s bloody history—The Islamic Revolution of 1979, which began after the...
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The Linked Ring
In 1892, Henry Peach Robinson and several other English photographers formed an association called Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, in order to promote the idea of photography as fine art. They all had...
View ArticleNon-consumerist Editorial Feature Photography
Is there a way to tap the non-consumerist editorial feature photography sector? Answer by: Hashim Badani, Editorial Photographer There is a market for everything. It can be tough to find a decently...
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The Reversal of a Lifetime
Photograph by: Jan Collsiöö Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The year was 1967, an iconic Sunday morning for Sweden, where months of practice and conditioning was finally about to be put into action....
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The American Way of Life
Robert Frank’s influential book, The Americans, was first published in France (1958). It was notable for its depiction of American society from an outsider’s point of view.
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The First Underwater Nuclear Explosion
Photograph by: United States Department of Defense Image Source: Wikimedia Commons The year was 1946, when the US Navy decided to conduct a nuclear test, a first of its kind in many ways—It was the...
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Colour Photography as an Artistic Medium
MoMA had already showcased the colour work of Eliot Porter in a solo exhibition, and then Eliot Haas in 1962, when it mounted an exhibit of William Eggleston’s colour photographs. At the time, colour...
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A Striking Portrait of Intimacy
Photograph by: Alfred Stieglitz Image Source: Wikimedia Commons When Georgia O’Keeffe received the first set of portraits of her made by Alfred Stieglitz in 1917, she was in awe. The very idea that an...
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