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Photography

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Still Image
Camera with Lens

The fixing of an image by light, achieved by Nicephore Niepce in the 1820s and made practical by the daguerreotype in 1839. Photography gave the world its first mechanical record of appearance, became the evidentiary backbone of journalism, and is the parent technology of every moving image medium in this atlas.

Facts
Origin Year
1839 1
1839 marks Daguerre's public announcement, the year this entity's own origin-note anchors on as the first commercially practical process; Niepce's first fixed image predates it, in 1826 (see the First Photograph milestone).
Origin
Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype, the first commercially practical photographic process, was formally announced in Paris on 7 January 1839. 1
Place of Origin
Paris, France 1
Primary Format
A still image fixed by recording light 1
Typical Distribution
Physical prints historically; overwhelmingly digital files captured on digital cameras and smartphones and shared online today 1
Connections

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Alberto Korda, Figures
Source Wikipedia: Alberto Korda
Source Wikipedia: Dorothea Lange
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Edouard Belin, Figures
Source Edouard Belin (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Edward Steichen
Source George E. Smith (Wikipedia)
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Source Hannibal Goodwin (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Tim Hetherington

Invented the calotype negative-positive process in the 1830s and 1840s, foundational to the photography medium.

Media Entries

Source Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (Wikipedia)
Source Bloody Saturday (photograph) (Wikipedia)

The camera obscura precedes photography; it belongs here as the optical ancestor of the photographic camera.

Source National Science and Media Museum Official Site
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Source Guerrillero Heroico - Wikipedia
Source Lunch atop a Skyscraper (Wikipedia)
Source Migrant Mother (Wikipedia)
Source Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Wikipedia)
Source Saigon Execution - Wikipedia
Source Tank Man (Wikipedia)
Source The Americans (photography) - Wikipedia
Source The Blue Marble, Wikipedia
Source The Falling Man (Wikipedia)
Source The Falling Soldier (Wikipedia)
Source Situation Room (photograph) (Wikipedia)
Source The Vulture and the Little Girl (Wikipedia)
Source Tomoko and Mother in the Bath (Wikipedia)
Source V-J Day in Times Square (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • History of photography, 1832 to 1840 section
    On 7 January 1839, this first complete practical photographic process was announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, and the news quickly spread.
  • Public announcement section
    At a joint meeting of the French Academy of Sciences and the Academie des Beaux-Arts held at the Institut de France on Monday, 19 August 1839
  • History of photography, 1832 to 1840: Early monochrome processes section
    Niepce in Chalon-sur-Saone and Louis Daguerre in Paris refined the bitumen process
  • Photography, Digital section
    Digital photography dominates the 21st century. More than 99% of photographs taken around the world are through digital cameras, increasingly through smartphones.
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National Science and Media Museum Official Site
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Photography (Wikipedia)
Photography, lead section
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Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
  • Associated With: George Eastman
  • Associated With: Eadweard Muybridge
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George E. Smith (Wikipedia)
Associated With: George E. Smith, Lead, first sentence
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a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD)
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Edouard Belin (Wikipedia)
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was a French photographer and inventor
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Hannibal Goodwin (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Associated With: Hannibal Goodwin, Biography, patent
    a photographic pellicle and process of producing same ... especially in connection with roller cameras
  • Media Entries: Celluloid Roll Film, History section
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The Blue Marble, Wikipedia
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The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by one of the astronauts aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.
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Bloody Saturday (photograph) (Wikipedia)
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Bloody Saturday (Chinese: 血腥的星期六; pinyin: Xuèxīng de Xīngqíliù) is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Saigon Execution - Wikipedia
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Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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V-J Day in Times Square (Wikipedia)
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V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S.
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The Falling Man (Wikipedia)
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The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of an unidentified man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City, United States.
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationMedia Entries: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Article lead sentence
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōjima no Seijōki) is a photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S.
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The Vulture and the Little Girl (Wikipedia)
WikipediaMedia Entries: The Vulture and the Little Girl, Article lead sentence
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The Vulture and the Little Girl, also known as The Struggling Girl, is a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on March 26, 1993.
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The Falling Soldier (Wikipedia)
Media Entries: The Falling Soldier, Article lead sentence
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The Falling Soldier (full title: Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936) is a black-and-white photograph by Robert Capa, claimed to have been taken on Saturday, September 5, 1936.
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Lunch atop a Skyscraper (Wikipedia)
Media Entries: Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, Article lead sentence
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Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City.
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Migrant Mother (Wikipedia)
WikipediaMedia Entries: Migrant Mother, Article lead sentence
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Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, by American photographer Dorothea Lange during her time with the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration).
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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (Wikipedia)
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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare is a black and white photograph taken by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris in 1932.
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Earthrise - Wikipedia
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Earthrise is a photograph of Earth taken from lunar orbit by American astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.
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Guerrillero Heroico - Wikipedia
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Guerrillero Heroico (Latin American Spanish: [ɡeriˈʝeɾo eˈɾojko]; "Heroic Guerrilla Fighter") is a photograph of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda.
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Tomoko and Mother in the Bath (Wikipedia)
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Tomoko and Mother in the Bath is a photograph taken by American photojournalist W.
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The Americans (photography) - Wikipedia
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The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography.
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Situation Room (photograph) (Wikipedia)
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Situation Room is a photograph taken by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer, at 4:05 p.m.
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Wikipedia: Dorothea Lange
Associated With: Dorothea Lange, Lead sentence
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was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist
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Wikipedia: Tim Hetherington
Associated With: Tim Hetherington, Lead sentence
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was a British photojournalist
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Wikipedia: Alberto Korda
Associated With: Alberto Korda, Lead sentence
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was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara
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Wikipedia: Edward Steichen
Associated With: Edward Steichen, Lead sentence
Quote, Associated With: Edward Steichen, Lead sentence
was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography
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Tank Man (Wikipedia)
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The moment was captured by international photographers and television crews watching from balconies and hotel rooms overlooking the avenue.
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