1968 | Europe • Great Britain | Aaron Scharf publishes Art and Photography and it is one of the first academic studies to highlight the connections between the two media. |
1968 | Asia • Vietnam
| Eddie Adams (Associated Press) photographs Colonel Nguyen Loan (Chief of the South Vietnam National Police) executing a suspect on a Saigon street during the Tet Offensive. (1 February 1968) |
1968 | North America • USA | The First Conference and Workshop of Photographic Collectors of North America is held at Ohio State University. Organized by Walter Johnson it is the first national meeting for those interested in the history of photography. |
1968 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Tanks from the Warsaw Pact invade Prague to crush a short-lived period of political freedom in Czechoslovakia - the Prague Spring. Josef Koudelka documents the invasion and the photographs are widely published in the West although the name of the photographer is not given. In 1969 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was awarded anonymously but it was not until sixteen years later that the identity of the photographer is acknowledged. On the fortieth anniversary of the invasion in 2008 Aperture publishes the book Invasion 68: Prague containing two hundred and fifty of the photographs Koudelka took. (21 August 1968) |
1968 | North America • USA
| Danny Lyon publishes The Bikeriders.
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1969 | North America • USA | Garry Winogrand publishes The Animals.
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1970 | North America • USA | The first PhotoHistory Symposia is held at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. This has been held every three years since 1970 and is indicative of increasing scholarly interest in the history of photography. |
1970 | North America • USA | Jacques-Henri Lartigue publishes Diary of a Century. |
1970 | North America • USA | Lee Friedlander publishes Self Portrait. |
1970 | North America • USA | Bruce Davidson publishes East 100th Street.
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1970 | Europe • Germany | Bernd & Hilla Becher publish Anonyme Skulpturen |
1971 | Asia • Japan | Nobuyoshi Araki publishes Sentimental Journey. |
1971 | North America • USA | Larry Clark publishes Tulsa.
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1971 | North America • USA
| Danny Lyon publishes Conversations with the Dead. |
1971 | North America • USA | Lucas Samaras publishes Samaras Album. |
1971 | North America • USA | Diane Arbus publishes Diane Arbus.
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1972 | Europe • Germany | Pierre Molinier and Peter Gorsen publish Pierre Molinier, lui-même. |
1972 | Asia • Japan | Daido Moriyama publishes Bye, Bye Photography, Dear. |
1973 | North America • USA | Michael Lesy publishes Wisconsin Death Trip. |
1973 | North America • USA | Fairchild Semiconductor releases a 100 x 100 cell CCD chip and this is the forerunner of all digital image capture devices. |