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| 1941 | North America - USA Walker Evans, 1941, Book cover for Walker Evans "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. three Tenant Families. Text by James Agee" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941), Book cover, Christie's - New York, | Walker Evans and James Agee publish Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Three Tenant Families (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941). | 1943 | North America - USA | Weegee (Arthur Fellig) takes his famous photograph The Critic outside the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Published in LIFE magazine on 6 December 1943 it pushes his career forward. | 1944 | Europe - France Robert Capa, 1944, 6 June (taken) 2007 (publication), The first wave of American troops landing on D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy coast, France; June 6, 1944, [Magnum Founders], Platinum print, bound into a book, Verso Limited Editions, | During the Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) Robert Capa photographs the landings at Omaha Beach. He exposes 106 frames of the heavily laden troops at they struggle past the steel landing craft obstructions before wading to an LCI (landing craft, infantry) to return to England with the first photographs of the invasion. All but eleven blurry images remain after the films are overheated when drying. | 1945 | North America - USA Alexey Brodovitch, 1945, Book cover for Alexey Brodovitch "Ballet" (New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945), Book cover, Christie's - New York, | Alexey Brodovitch publishes Ballet (New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945). | 1945 | North America - USA André Kertész, 1945, Book cover for André Kertész "Day of Paris" (New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945), Book cover, Private collection, | André Kertész publishes Day of Paris. | 1945 | Europe - Czechoslovakia Jindrich Styrsky, 1945, Book cover for Jindrich Styrsky "Na jehlßch techto dni -- On the Needles of These Days. Text by Jindrich Heisler, design by Karel Teige" (Prague: F.R. Borovy, 1945), Book cover, Christie's - New York, | Jindrich Styrsky and Jindrich Heisler publish Na jehlach techto dni [On the Needles of these Days]. | 1945 | North America - USA Weegee, 1945, Book cover for Weegee "Naked City" (New York: Essential Books), Book cover, Christie's - London, | Weegee (Arthur Fellig) publishes Naked City. | 1945 | Asia - Japan Unidentified photographer, 1945, Nakasaki Mushroom Cloud, Gelatin silver print, Klotz / Sirmon Gallery (CLOSED), | Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. The tail gunner of the Enola Gay, Sgt. George R. Caron, took a roll of film of the detonation. | 1945 | Asia - Iwo Jima Joe Rosenthal, 1945, 23 Febuary (taken), The flag raising on Iwo Jima, "Soundphotos" (wire photos), Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, | Joe Rosenthal takes the photograph of the Flag raising on Iwo Jima showing six marines putting up a large flag on Mount Suribachi. It quickly becomes one of the iconic American war photographs.
A feature film Flags of Our Fathers (2006) , directed by Clint Eastwood, retells the story. |
1945 | North America - USA Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945, VJ Day in Times Square, Gelatin silver print, Klotz / Sirmon Gallery (CLOSED), | V-J Day ended the hostilities of the Second World War and was a time of celebrations for the Allies. The photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt catches the atmosphere of the occasion when anybody could kiss anybody and get away with it. The photograph is fascinating because of the numbers of people who claimed to be the sailor or the nurse involved to learn more about it go to http://time.com/3517476/v-j-day-1945-a-nation-lets-loose/ | 1945 | Europe - Germany Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945, 2 May, Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Gelatin silver print, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, | Yevgeny Khaldei photographs the placing of a Soviet flag on the Reichstag in Berlin showing that the European phase of the Second World War is nearly over. | 1945 | North America - USA | LIFE in the USA runs the Holocaust photographs taken at Buchenwald in April 1945 by Lee Miller with the statement "Dead men will have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them." | 1945 | Asia - Japan Yosuke Yamahata, 1945, 10 August, A-Bomb Terror in Nagasaki, Japan, Black and white photograph, United Nations Photo, | Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in Japan. | 1946 | North America - USA | Wright Morris publishes The Inhabitants. | 1946 | Europe - Czechoslovakia Zdenek Tmej, 1946, Book cover for Zdenek Tmej, 1946, Abeceda: Dusevniho prßzdna [Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness], Book cover, Swann Galleries - New York, | Zdenek Tmej publishes Abeceda: Duševního Prázdna [Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness] | 1946 | North America - USA | Alfred Stieglitz dies. His role in placing photography amongst the arts and in influencing its direction in the late 19th century and in the first twenty years of the 20th is difficult to overstate. | 1947 | North America - USA Robert Capa, 1947, Book cover for Robert Capa "Slightly Out of Focus" (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947), Book cover, Private collection, | Robert Capa publishes Slightly Out of Focus. | 1947 | North America - USA Edward Weston, 1947, Book cover for "Edward Weston: 50 Photographs" (New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce Publishers), Book cover, Swann Galleries - New York, | Edward Weston publishes Fifty Photographs. | 1947 | Europe - France | The Magnum photo agency is founded. | 1948 | North America - USA | Edwin Land introduces the Polaroid camera | 1948 | North America - USA W. Eugene Smith, 1948, 20 September, Country Dr. Ernest Ceriani wiping the eye of 2 1/2-year-old girl whose head he has just stitched up after she was kicked in the head by a horse, in emergency room at hospital., [Country Doctor], Gelatin silver print, LIFE, | W. Eugene Smith publishes his photo-essay Country Doctor in LIFE magazine in the USA. | 1948 | Europe - Denmark Keld Helmer-Petersen, 1948, Book cover for Keld Helmer-Petersen "122 Colour Photographs" (Copenhagen: Schoenberg, 1948), Book cover, Christie's - New York, | 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, 1949, Book cover for Robert Doisneau & Blaise Cendrars (text) "La Banlieue de Paris" (Paris: Pierre Seghers Editeur, 1949), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, | 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. | 1951 | Europe - Germany | The exhibition Subjektive Fotografie opens in Cologne. | 1952 | North America - USA Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1952, Book cover for "the Decisive Moment" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952), Book cover, Private collection, | Henri Cartier-Bresson publishes The Decisive Moment (New York: Simon and Schuster). | 1952 | Europe - Switzerland Paul Strand, 1952, Book cover for Claude Roy & Paul Strand "La France de Profil" (Lausanne: Guilde du Livre, 1952), Book cover, Soler y LLach, | Paul Strand and Claude Roy publish La France de Profil. | 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. | 1955 | North America - USA Roy DeCarava, 1955, Book cover for Roy DeCarava "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" Story by Langston Hughes. (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1955), Book cover, Swann Galleries - New York, | Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes publish The Sweet Flypaper of Life. | 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. | 1956 | Europe - France William Klein, 1956, Book cover for William Klein, New York, life is good & good for you in New York, (Paris: Le Seuil, 1956), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, | William Klein publishes Life Is Good & Good for You in New York. | 1956 | Europe - Czechoslovakia Josef Sudek, 1956, Book cover for "Lubomir Linhart: Josef Sudek Fotografie" (Prague, Statni Nakl.Krasne Literatury, Hudby a Umeni, 1956), Book cover, Artcurial, | Josef Sudek publishes Josef Sudek Fotografie. | 1956 | Europe - Netherlands Ed Van der Elsken, 1956, Book cover for André Deutsch & Ed van der Elsken "Love on the Left Bank" (Holland: Export printing office W. vonk, 1956), Book cover, Soler y LLach, | Ed Van der Elsken publishes Love on the Left Bank. | 1957 | North America - USA Russell Kirsch and colleagues (NIST), 1957, Walden Kirsch, son of Russell Kirsch, the leader of the team that developed the image scanner., Scanned image, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, | 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 | North America - USA Richard Avedon, 1959, Book cover for Richard Avedon, Observations, With text by Truman Capote (Lucerne: Camera Verlag C. J. Bucher, 1959) [First German edition], Book cover, Bassenge Photography Auctions, | Richard Avedon and Truman Capote publish Observations. | 1959 | North America - USA Robert Frank, 1959, Front cover of "the Americans" (New York: Grove Press), Book cover, Private collection, | Robert Frank publishes The Americans. A French edition published by Delpire had been released in 1958. | 1959 | North America - USA | Aaron Siskind publishes Photographs | 1959 | Europe - Netherlands | Ed Van der Elsken publishes Jazz. |