Abstraction of scale
Abstraction of the real
Abstractions of light
 | Advertising
This theme will also include the subversion of advertising and commercial photography by Andy Warhol and the billboard collaborations of Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. |
Advertising albums
Aerial photography
Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography
Balloons, airships and dirigibles
Kite photography
Satellite imaging
Religious architecture
Religious architecture - Christian
Religious architecture - Islamic
Rooms and their contents
Approriation
Artist studies - Académies
Artists' books
Conceptual photography
Fabricated realities
Land art
Maps
Performance art
Photographing art - paintings and drawings
Photographing art - sculpture
Photorealism
Tableau vivant
 | Documentary
The Documentary theme will include:
- Visual truth and falsification in documentary photography.
- Changing media channels and contemporary opportunities and challenges for the dissemination of documentary photography.
- Changing models on the funding of documentary projects including pay-to-play, Kickstarter, Photophilantropy and a variety of models.
For a fascinating study from multiple perspectives on the nature of documentary film watch the award-winning "Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary" (2008) by Pepita Ferrari |
Catastrophes
Catastrophes - Droughts
Catastrophes - Earthquakes
Catastrophes - Famines
Catastrophes - Fires
Catastrophes - Floods
Catastrophes - Tsunamis
Catastrophes - Volcanic eruptions
Civil engineering
Crime and punishment
Crime and punishment - Crime scene photography
Crime and punishment - Domestic violence
Crime and punishment - Lynch photography
Crime and punishment - Mugshots
Crime and punishment - Police and law enforcement photography
Crime and punishment - Prisons
Evidence
Health
Health - AIDS - HIV
Health - Eating disorders
Industrial
Industrial - Mining and extraction
Life stages
Life stages - Adolescents
Life stages - Babies
Life stages - Children
Life stages - Dead
Life stages - Elderly
Life stages - Middle age
Occupational
Peoples of the world
Peoples of the world - African Americans
Peoples of the world - Native Americans
Photographic surveys movement
Religions
Religions - Christianity
Religions - Islam
Religions - Judaism
Society
Society - American struggles for civil rights
Society - Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori
Society - Education
Society - Events
Society - Family life
Society - FSA - Farm Security Administration
Society - Gender
Society - Great Depression
Society - Guns
Society - Homelessness
Society - Housing conditions
Society - Immigrants and immigration
Society - Leisure
Society - Patriotism
Society - Poverty
Society - Racial issues
Society - Refugees
Society - Rural communities
Society - Sexuality
Society - Slavery, abolition and civil rights
Society - Social conflict
Society - Social life and meeting places
Society - Suburbia
Society - Urban life
Society - Working conditions
Academic study of sexuality
Erotica and staged photography
Homoeroticism
The sex industry
The sex industry - Domination
The sex industry - Fetish
The sex industry - Naturism
The sex industry - Prostitution
 | Experimental and manipulated photography
Manipulated photography includes any steps during the taking of the photograph through to the creation of the final image that alter the "truth" of the visible world. This might include the selection of capture methods (i.e. infrared) that alter the reality of the visual image prior to capture, through the handworking of negatives so common with Pictorial photography, hand-colouring or the post-processing of digital images in Lightroom, Photoshop or other software. It can include scratching negatives, writing on prints, collage, photomontage or the intentional, or unintentional, burning of prints.
This topic will include experimental photographic forms including:
- Using living forms to create photographs. This technique uses specially created negatives and the sun or a suitable light and heat source to allow grass to grow at differential rates and thereby create pictures. (For example: Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey)
- Printing photographs onto plants. (For example: Binh Danh)
|
Body fluids and animal parts
Cameraless photographs
Capturing motion
Chemigrams
Distortions
Graffiti
Lines and shapes
Mixed media
Mordançage
Multiple exposures
Photograms
Shadows
Signage
Solarization
Using different viewpoints
Using intermediates
Fashion 1910-1920
Fashion 1920-1930
Fashion 1930-1940
Fashion 1940-1950
Fashion 1950-1960
Fashion 1960-1970
Fashion 1970-1980
Fashion 1980-1990
Fashion 1990-2000
Fashion magazines
Fashion magazines - Early fashion magazines
Fashion magazines - Harper's Bazaar
Fashion magazines - Vogue
Early color landscape photography
Early pictorialist landscape photography
Landscape photography and environmental issues
Landscape photography and historical issues
Landscape photography and natural catastrophes
Landscape photography and spatial relationships
Landscape photography and the New Pictorialism
Landscape studies - Rephotographic projects
Landscape studies - Water in the West Project
Landscape types
Landscape types - Agricultural and pastoral
Landscape types - Beaches
Landscape types - Cityscapes - Urban
Landscape types - Cliffs
Landscape types - Deserts and dunes
Landscape types - Fantasy
Landscape types - Forests
Landscape types - Gardens and parks
Landscape types - Horizon
Landscape types - Ice and snow
Landscape types - Lakes, ponds, meres, reed beds and lagoons
Landscape types - Mountains
Landscape types - Rivers and streams
Landscape types - Rural pathways, tracks, trails and lanes
Landscape types - Sea
Landscape types - Water and waterfalls
Regional studies
Regional studies - Landscapes of Asia
Regional studies - Landscapes of Europe
Regional studies - Landscapes of North America
Regional studies - Landscapes of the Middle East
Regional studies - Remnants of the Ancient and Classical world
Straight landscape photography
Narratives
Poetry
Climate and weather
Climate and weather - Clouds
Climate and weather - Lightning
Climate and weather - Tornados
Climate and weather - Typhoons
Collections
Environment
Fauna
Fauna - Animals
Fauna - Birds
Fauna - Domesticated animals
Fauna - Endangered and extinct species
Fauna - Fish
Fauna - Insects, arachnids and others
Fauna - Mythical beasts
Fauna - Pets
Fauna - Zoos
Flora
Flora - Flowers
Flora - Fruits
Flora - Trees
Flora - Vegetables
Seashells
 | Photojournalism
Social issues are discussed in the "Documentary" theme as "Photojournalism" is addressed here primarily as a means of media distribution.
The CPJ - Committee to Protect Journalists is a reliable source for detailed information and statistics on the threats to contemporary photojournalism. |
History of photojournalism - Early examples of photo reportage
History of photojournalism - Early social commentary
History of photojournalism - Weimar Germany (1919-1933)
Magazines and photojournalism
Magazines and photojournalism - AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
Magazines and photojournalism - Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung
Magazines and photojournalism - LIFE magazine
Magazines and photojournalism - LOOK magazine
Magazines and photojournalism - Paris Match
Magazines and photojournalism - Picture Post
Magazines and photojournalism - Rise of the illustrated magazine
Magazines and photojournalism - The Far East
Magazines and photojournalism - USSR in Construction
Magazines and photojournalism - VU
Photo-agencies - Emergence of the photo-agency
Photo-agencies - Magnum
Photo-essays
Collage
Commercial uses of collage and photomontage
Composite and combination prints
Digital photomontage
Early political photomontage
Exaggeration photo postcards
Fine art photomontage
Political collage from 1970 onwards
Political collage in Weimar Germany
American influences on Pictorialism
Global trends in Pictorialism
Linked Ring Brotherhood
Pictorialism Reborn
Pictorialist publications
Pictorialist publications - Camera Notes
Pictorialist publications - Camera Work
Pictorialist publications - Die Kunst in der Photographie
Pictorialist publications - Photo-Club de Paris
Pictorialist publications - Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien
Post 1917 Pictorialism
Composite portraits
Emotions
Group portraits
Occupations and roles
Occupations and roles - Actors and Performers
Occupations and roles - Artists
Occupations and roles - Athletes
Occupations and roles - Authors, playwrights and poets
Occupations and roles - Celebrities
Occupations and roles - Circus performers and workers
Occupations and roles - Dancers
Occupations and roles - Military
Occupations and roles - Musicians
Occupations and roles - Opera singers
Occupations and roles - Photographers
Occupations and roles - Politicians
Occupations and roles - Royalty
Occupations and roles - Scientists and innovators
Parts of the body
Parts of the body - Arms
Parts of the body - Back
Parts of the body - Breasts
Parts of the body - Ears
Parts of the body - Eyes
Parts of the body - Feet
Parts of the body - Hair
Parts of the body - Hands
Parts of the body - Legs
Parts of the body - Skeletons
Parts of the body - Skulls
Parts of the body - Torsos
Proposed articles - Alternate personalities and questioning identity
Proposed articles - Concealment with masks and veils
Proposed articles - Identity documents and badges
Proposed articles - Intimate relationships
Proposed articles - Partners
Proposed articles - Representations of people
Proposed articles - Self-portraits
Proposed articles - Social outsiders
Proposed articles - Twins
Anthropology and ethnology
Anthropology and ethnology - Ethnic and traditional costumes
Anthropology and ethnology - Ethnographic nudity
Anthropology and ethnology - Tipos
Archaeology
Astronomy
Astronomy - Transit of Venus
Botany
Expeditions and exploration
Geology
Medical
Medical - Hypnotism
Medical - Mental health and psychiatry
Movement and motion
Nuclear
Oceanography and underwater photography
Palaeontology
Photogrammetry
Photomicroscopy
Scientific experiments
Stroboscopes and stroboscopy
X-rays
Sports
Bizarre still lifes
Commercial still lifes
Fine art still lifes
Subject selection for still lifes
Characters and occupational types
Hidden cameras
Street photographers
Street: Classic French examples
Street: Current trends
Street: Garry Winogrand
Air transportation
Air transportation - Airplanes
Land transportation
Land transportation - Buses
Land transportation - Cars
Land transportation - Chariots
Land transportation - Cycling - Penny farthings, high wheelers, boneshakers and bicycles
Land transportation - Motorcycles and scooters
Land transportation - Pack animals - mules, donkeys, burros and horses
Land transportation - Railways
Land transportation - Sedan chairs - Kago
Land transportation - Wagon trains
Land transportation - Wagons, carts, carriages and buggies
Water transportation
Water transportation - Boats, canoes and kayaks
Water transportation - Sailing ships
Water transportation - Shipping
Water transportation - Steamboats and paddle steamers
Water transportation - Submarines
 | Travel
Details on individual tourist sites such as the Colosseum, the Acropolis, the Pyramids and many others are included in the "Geographical regions" section. I'd like to extend this section with information related to the tours of Thomas Cook, railroad excursions, early family travel albums and the diaries of photographers as they toured the world. If you have examples I'd be grateful if you'd let me know. |
 | Vernacular
Vernacular photographs appear like confetti thrown through contemporary culture with the photobooth portraits in the film Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) or the innovative novels of W.G. Sebald. Their inclusion in a series of exhibitions at major institutions, such as the showing of photographs from the Robert Jackson collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, has encouraged acceptance within the wider community. When John Stezaker won the 2012 Deutsche Börse photography prize with his photocollages he was the first to win the award without taking photographs. By combining found photographs into quirky juxtapositions he creates alternate and, at times, surreal realities.
On 17 April 2014 Swann Auction Galleries (NYC) held the first auction devoted solely to Vernacular photography. This is an indication of scarcity within the vintage market but also of the acceptance of vernacular photography by collectors and institutions.
This section will include the rediscovery of the banal by Martin Parr, the re-use of found photographs by artists such as Joachim Schmid, and those who use Flickr, Creative Commons tagged photographs and Google Street View images as a resource. The compulsive collecting of discarded photographs of everday life in pre-digital China recorded by Thomas Sauvin is a further example of the interest in vernacular images as their physical existence declines to be replaced by non-printed digital forms. |
Instantaneous photography
Photobooths
Real photo postcards
Snapshots
Afghanistan Wars (1979-?)
Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
Algerian War of Independence (1950s)
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Anglo-Egyptian War (1882)
Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
Boer War (1899-1902)
Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975)
Chechen (1994-1996 / 1999-2009)
Cold War (1945-1991)
Crimean War (1854-1856)
Earliest War Photographs (1840-1870)
Falklands War (1982)
First World War (1914-1918)
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Greek Civil War (1946-1949)
Gulf War (1990-1991)
Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871)
Korean Punitive Expedition (1871)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Mexican Revolution (1910-early 1920s)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Middle East (1948-?)
Modoc War (1872-1873)
North American Indian Wars (1860-1900)
Northern Ireland - The Troubles (1960s-1998)
Paris Commune (1871)
Russian Revolution and the aftermath (1917)
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Second Afghan War (1878-1880)
Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860)
Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1936)
Second Schleswig War / Prussian-Danish War (1864)
Second World War (1939-1945)
Spanish American War (1898)
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Terrorism
The Holocaust (1933-1945)
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870)
Year of Revolutions (1848)
Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999)
| | The business of photography |
Camera stands and tripods
Cameras
Cameras - Pinhole Cameras
Cameras - Plastic cameras
Dark tents and dark boxes
Magnesium light
Retouching, colouring and painting kits
Solar enlargers
 | Guidelines, manuals and instructions
It is difficult to construct an online exhibition for this topic as the front covers and title pages of the books are not visually appealing. If anybody has high quality scans or a suggestion on how to handle this topic I'll be happy to reconsider.
Another issue is the linking of the manual covers to the full texts of the books on Google Books - this is more tricky than it at first appears as the viewable volumes vary between countries because of different copyright restrictions.. |
Copyright
Patents
 | Manufacture of photography-related items
If you have, or know of, a series of photographs or illustrations covering any industrial or manufacturing business related to photography please get in touch. |
 | Marketing
This theme concentrates on nineteeth century marketing. It will be extended to include examples of evites, iPhone and iPad applications, the use of social media and contemporary marketing strategies. |
Advertising in newspapers
Advertising in publications
Awards and medals
Backmarks
Banknotes, premiums and tokens
Business and trade cards
Business stationery
Cases
Commercial catalogues
En plein air
Exhibitions and competitions
Handbills and broadsides
Photographer, studio and distribution labels
Photographic publications
Photographing celebrities
Popular press
Posters
Sample books and sample boards
Showcasing photographs
Signage and banners
Stamps
Studio marks in negative
Touting for business
Trade directories
Photographic vans, wagons and cars
Railroad photograph cars and studios on trains
Studios on boats and barges
Tents
Exteriors of photographic studios
Interiors of photographic studios
Significant photographic studios - Examples
Illustrated magazines
Photobooks
Photography related magazines and journals
Tipped-in photographs and books illustrated with photographs
Tipped-in photographs and magazines and journals illustrated with photographs
Backgrounds and foregrounds
Props
Props - Balustrades
Props - Benches
Props - Chairs and sofas
Props - Columns, plinths and pedestals
Props - Curtains
Props - Head rests and posing stands
Props - Rustic fences, gates, trees and stumps
Props - Staircases
Props - Swings
Props - Tables
Props - Toys
Reflectors
Studio lighting
Chemicals
Dry plates
Cased photographs
Non-paper objects
Paper objects
Photo-jewelry
Alethoscopes
Graphoscopes
Megalethoscopes
Stanhopes
Stereoscopes
Alternative process movement
Cabinet cards
Cartes de visite
Camera lucida
Camera obscura
Dioramas
Pantograph
Perspective
Physionotrace
Silhouette
Photo-mechanical processes
Chromolithographs
Collotypes
Halftones
Heliogravures
Photochromes - Photochroms
Photogravures
Photolithographs
Rotogravures
Woodburytypes
Popular formats
Photo postcards
Postcards
Albumen prints
Albumen prints - Mammoth plate photography
Ambrotypes
Aristotypes
Autochromes
Bon Tons
Bromoil prints
Calotypes
Carbon prints
Cliché-verre
Colour
Contemporary bromoil prints
Contemporary daguerreotypes
Contemporary photogravure
Contemporary tintypes
Cyanotypes
Daguerreotypes
Dry-plate photography
Fresson prints
Gelatin silver prints
Hand-painted photographs
Imprimerie photographique Blanquart-Evrard
Infrared photography
Iphone applications
Ivorytypes and American Ivorytypes
Kirlian photography
Lantern slides
Magic lanterns
Negatives
Orotones
Paget plates
Painting on photographs
Panoramas
Paper and waxed paper negatives
Photogenic drawings
Platinum prints
Polaroids
Salt prints
Scanning electron microscope
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards
Tintypes
Wet-plate photography
 | Africa
The history of photography in Africa is fragmentary with North Africa and South Africa being well studied and most other areas based on a few notable photographers. This is an invitation for anybody who has researched the history of any country or region to get in touch so we can share findings for the benefit of all. Is anybody researching the archives of the missionary societies and archives of expeditions? Any research on newspaper or regional archives would be appreciated.
The Basel Misson Archives will prove to be an exceptional source as the photographs become available online. |
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt
Egypt - The Pyramids and the Sphinx
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania - United Republic of Tanzania
The Gambia
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
China
China - Hong Kong
East Timor
Georgia
India
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Israel and Palestine
Israel and Palestine - Jerusalem
Japan
Japan - Mt. Fuji
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)
Korea (the Republic of)
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lebanon
Malaysia
Maldives
Middle East
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
Oman
Pacific
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Syria - Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tibet
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
 | Europe
Are there any specialists in the photo-history of Southeastern Europe who can assist with biographies of photographers? |
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
France - Eiffel Tower
France - Forest of Fontainebleau
France - Paris
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Greece - Acropolis
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Italy - Colosseum
Italy - Florence
Italy - Rome
Italy - Venice
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Macedonia
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
UK
UK - England
UK - England - London
UK - Northern Ireland
UK - Scotland
UK - Wales
Ukraine
Vatican City - Holy See
 | North and Central America
Are you a specialist in the photography of the Caribbean region or do you know somebody who is? If you answered YES to either of these questions please get in touch. |
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
USA
USA - Alabama
USA - Alaska
USA - American Samoa
USA - Arizona
USA - Arkansas
USA - California
USA - California: Yosemite
USA - Colorado
USA - Connecticut
USA - Delaware
USA - District of Columbia
USA - Florida
USA - Georgia
USA - Guam
USA - Hawaii
USA - Idaho
USA - Illinois
USA - Indiana
USA - Iowa
USA - Kansas
USA - Kentucky
USA - Louisiana
USA - Maine
USA - Marshall Islands
USA - Maryland
USA - Massachusetts
USA - Michigan
USA - Minnesota
USA - Mississippi
USA - Missouri
USA - Montana
USA - Nebraska
USA - Nevada
USA - New Hampshire
USA - New Jersey
USA - New Mexico
USA - New York
USA - North Carolina
USA - North Dakota
USA - Northern Mariana Islands
USA - Ohio
USA - Oklahoma
USA - Oregon
USA - Pennsylvania
USA - Rhode Island
USA - South Carolina
USA - South Dakota
USA - Tennessee
USA - Texas
USA - Utah
USA - Vermont
USA - Virgin Islands
USA - Virginia
USA - Washington
USA - West Virginia
USA - Wisconsin
USA - Wyoming
Australia
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
|
LuminousLint 
@LuminousLint
