| 1948 | North America • USA
| W. Eugene Smith publishes his photo-essay Country Doctor in LIFE magazine in the USA. (20 September 1948) |
| 1948 | North America • USA | Edwin Land introduces the Polaroid camera |
| 1948 | Europe • Denmark
| The Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen self-publishes 122 Colour Photographs Copenhagen: Schoenberg, 1948) which embraces the Modernist style and the use of color. This is one of the first books to use color photography effectively. |
| 1949 | Europe • France
| Robert Doisneau and Blaise Cendrars publish La Banlieue de Paris. |
| 1951 | Africa • Southern Africa | In South Africa the magazine 'The African Drum is created by an Africaner (Robert Crisp) after a slow start it becomes The Drum and is culturally important throughout Africa for many years. (March 1951) |
| 1951 | Europe • Germany | The exhibition Subjektive Fotografie opens in Cologne. |
| 1952 | North America • USA
| Henri Cartier-Bresson publishes The Decisive Moment (New York: Simon and Schuster). |
| 1952 | Europe • Switzerland
| Paul Strand and Claude Roy publish La France de Profil.
La France De Profil
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| 1952 | Europe • Greece | The Greek Photographic Society (EFE) is founded. |
| 1952 | North America • USA | Minor White founds the influential photographic magazine Aperture. |
| 1953 | Asia • French Indochina | Robert Capa is killed by a land mine whilst photographing in French Indochina. He had been the motivator behind the formation of the Magnum photo-agency. |
| 1954 | North America • Canada | First issue of Sports Illustrated (Vol.1 No.1) and includes a photograph by Mark Kauffman of the mile race between Dr. Roger Bannister (England) and Michael Landy (Australia) in Vancouver when both men beat the four minute barrier. (16 August 1954) |
| 1955 | North America • USA
| Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes publish The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
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| 1955 | North America • USA | Edward Steichen organizes The Family of Man Exhibition which was shown first at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York but tours to widespread acclaim and vast crowds. It includes 503 works by 273 photographers from 68 countries.
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| 1956 | Europe • France
| William Klein publishes Life Is Good & Good for You in New York. |
| 1956 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Josef Sudek publishes Josef Sudek Fotografie. |
| 1956 | Europe • Netherlands
| Ed Van der Elsken publishes Love on the Left Bank.
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| 1957 | North America • USA
| One of the earliest digital images created showing Walden Kirsch, baby son of Russell Kirsch, the leader of the team at National Bureau of Standards (NIST) that developed the image scanner. |
| 1959 | Europe • Netherlands | Ed Van der Elsken publishes Jazz. |
| 1959 | North America • USA | Aaron Siskind publishes Photographs
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