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| 1900 | Europe - Great Britain | Fred Holland Day organizes the Royal Photographic Society exhibition of The New School of American Photography held in London. This was the first showing in Europe of the immense progress that had been made in American pictorialist photography. | 1900 | North America - USA | The First mass-marketed camera, the Brownie, costs $1. | 1901 | Europe - France | Fred Holland Day shows the The New School of American Photography exhibition that had been shown in London in 1900 to the Photo Club de Paris. | 1902 | North America - USA Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1907, Alfred Stieglitz, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, | Alfred Stieglitz founds Camera Work. | 1902 | North America - USA | Alfred Stieglitz founds the Photo-Secession movement in the USA. | 1903 | North America - USA Alfred Stieglitz, 1903, Front cover for Number I of Camera Work, MDCCCCIII, [Camera Work, no. 01], Front cover, Photoseed, | Camera Work published under the editorship of Alfred Stieglitz is published. | 1903 | North America - USA | National Geographic publishes its first halftone of a woman in a rice field in the Philippines. | 1903 | Europe - France Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Microphotography of the Autochrome trichromatic selection mosaic, made of dyed potato starch grains (7000 grains / mm2), Photomicrograph, Institut Lumičre (The Lumiere Institute), | The Autochrome is patented by the Lumière Brothers and when marketed in 1907 it becomes the first widely used color process. | 1904 | Global | The International Society of Pictorial Photographers is founded with James Craig Annan as the first president. He is the son of Thomas Annan (1829-1887) and a contributor to Camera Work. | 1904 | Europe - France | The early color Autochrome process is demonstrated to the Academy of Science. | 1905 | North America - USA Unidentified artist, 1906 (published), Advertisement for the Photo-Secession and "Little Galleries" 291 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Advert, detail, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, | Alfred Stieglitz opens the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York. Through a series of galleries Stieglitz exhibits photography and fine art to the American public. He champions the connections between photography and the accepted fine arts of sculpture and painting by exhibiting the works of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Auguste Rodin. | 1907 | Europe - France Unidentified photographer / artist, n.d., Microphotography of the Autochrome trichromatic selection mosaic, made of dyed potato starch grains (7000 grains / mm2), Photomicrograph, Institut Lumičre (The Lumiere Institute), | Louis Lumière (1864–1948) markets the first commercial three color photography process - Autochrome Lumière. The process had been patented in 1904 but it was only in 1907 that the plates were available from their factory at Lyon.
Alfred Stieglitz, wrote in a letter from Munich (July 1907) "All are amazed at the remarkably truthful color rendering; the wonderful luminosity of the shadows…, the endless range of grays; the richness of the deep colors. In short, soon the world will be color-mad, and Lumière will be responsible." In an article published in the October 1907 issue of Camera Work, Stieglitz wrote: "Color photography is an accomplished fact. The seemingly everlasting question whether color would ever be within the reach of the photographer has been definitely answered. The answer the Lumières, of France, have supplied. For fourteen years, it is related, they have been seeking it. Thanks to their science, perseverance, and patience, practical application and unlimited means, these men have finally achieved what many of us had looked upon practically as unachievable…." |
1907 | North America - USA Edward S. Curtis, 1905, Oasis in the Badlands, Orotone, Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, | Edward Sheriff Curtis publishes The North American Indian: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, Volume One. It is the most sumptuous study of any ethnic group ever produced and between 1907 and 1930 twenty volumes are published largely funded by the banker J.P. Morgan and his estate. | 1907 | Europe | Dr Arthur Korn sends picture facsimiles between London, Paris and Berlin. | 1908 | North America - USA | Five years after the first flight of the secretive Wright Brothers photographer Jimmy Hare and writer Arthur Ruhl take the first news photograph of the plane in powered flight for Collier‘s. The plane covers two miles in two minutes and fifty seconds. | 1908 | North America - USA Lewis W. Hine, 1908, 30 November, Sadie Pfeifer, 48 inches high, has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, | Lewis W. Hine begins a series of photographs for the National Child Labor Committee. These images of small children performing dangerous factory work and other jobs led to congressional legislation to enforce child labor laws. | 1908 | Europe - France | Gabriel Lippmann awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his method of reproducing colors in photography, based on the interference phenomenon. | 1909 | Europe - Great Britain Alvin Langdon Coburn, n.d., London, Book cover, Lee Gallery, | Alvin Langdon Coburn publishes London. | 1910 | North America - USA | Photographic show at the Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, USA) is one of the first where photographs are shown as art in an Art Gallery. The gallery also purchased 12 pictures for the collection.
Alfred Stieglitz wrote to Ernst Juhl (6 January 1911): "This exhibition was without doubt the most important that has been held anywhere so far. We won't be seeing anything like it in the near future. Only very select prints, in most cases the best of their kind that exist, and with the exception of 20 gravures which are in their way originals, only original prints" [were shown]. |
1910 | North America - USA | William Warnecke photographs the shooting of New York Mayor William Gaynor by J.J. Gallagher on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. | 1910 | Antarctica Herbert G. Ponting, 1911 (taken) 1914 (print), The 'Terra Nova' Icebound in the Pack, [British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 (led by Scott on the "Terra Nova")], Carbon print, green-toned, Swann Galleries - New York, | Herbert Ponting accompanies Captain Scott's second South Pole expedition. | 1912 | Asia - Japan | The Aiyu Photography Club is founded in Nagota. | 1914 | Antarctica Frank Hurley, 1915, Endurance in the Ice, [Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 (led by Ernest Shackleton on the "Endurance")], Gelatin silver print, Afterimage Gallery, | Frank Hurley accompanies Sir Earnest Shackleton's second Antarctic expedition. | 1914 | North America - USA | The USS Mississippi drops anchor at Naval Shipyard Pensacola to survey the area for a Naval Aeronautical Station during the early days of flight. Walter Leroy Richardson, who joined the US Navy in 1911, takes the photographs and goes on to become the US Navy's first official photographer. | 1915 | North America - USA Unidentified photographer, 1915, 24 July (on or after), [Eastland disaster, diver Harry Halvorsen standing on ladder near the overturned hull of the steamer]., Gelatin silver print, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, | The lake steamer Eastland rolls over in Chicago with the loss of 844 passengers and crew. | 1917 | North America - USA Paul Strand, 1917, Photograph - New York, [Camera Work, no. 49/50, pl. 06], Photogravure, Hand-pulled, Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd, | The photographs of Paul Strand are published in Camera Work, Number XLIX, Number L. | 1917 | North America - USA | Alfred Steiglitz publishes the last issue of Camera Work. During the years it was published (1903-1917) it was the most influential and well produced of any photographic magazine. | 1917 | Europe - Russia | Narkompros (the 'People's Commissariat for Education') is founded and puts publishing, media and dissemination under State control. | 1917 | Europe - Great Britain Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1917, Vortograph, Gelatin silver print, Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc, | Alvin Langdon Coburn takes his Vortograph photographs that are among the first that play with light and are intentionally abstract. | 1918 | Europe - Switzerland | Christian Schad starts making abstract photographs by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing it. Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada, calls them Schadographs but they come under the general heading of photograms. |