photography - The art, craft, and science of producing permanent images of objects on light-sensitive surfaces.

Louis Daguerre (French, 1787-1851) developed the first permanent photographic images in 1839, having continued the pioneering work of Joseph Niepce. Daguerre's process is called the daguerreotype.

Other processes, such as albumen printing, digital imaging, ferrotype, montage, negative, pasteup, photogravure, and xerography, are noted within the following list of examples of photography.

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• By photographers born before 1825

Robert Adamson, Édouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Louis-Auguste Bisson, Mathew Brady, Julia Margaret Cameron, André-Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Roger Fenton, Alexander Gardner, Josiah Johnson Hawes, David Octavius Hill, Félix Nadar [Gaspard-Félix Tournachon], Joseph Niépce, Albert Sands Southworth, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Félix Teynard.

• By photographers born 1825-1849

Georges Demenÿ, Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), Thomas Eakins, Robert Howlett, Willaim Henry Jackson, Etienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Jacob Riis, H. P. Robinson, and Carleton E. Watkins.

• By photographers born 1850-1879

Jean Eugene Atget, Jessie Tarbox Beals, Anne W. Brigman, Edward Curtis, Frank Jay Haynes, Lewis W. Hine, Gertrude Stanton Käsebier, August Sander, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Clarence H. White.

• By photographers born 1880-1899

Berenice Abbott, Brassaï, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gertrude Fehr, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Man Ray, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander Rodchenko, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand, James Van Der Zee, Weegee, and Edward Weston.

• By photographers born 1900-1919

Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Ralston Crawford, Robert Doisneau, Harold Edgerton, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Yevgeni Khaldei, Wright Morris, Arnold Newman, Irving Penn, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Lou Stoumen, and Minor White.

• By photographers born 1920-1939

Robert Adams, Diane Nemerov Arbus, Neil A. Armstrong, John Baldessari, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, Paul Caponigro, William Eggleston, David Hockney, Duane Michals, John Pfahl, Kenneth Snelson, David Hockney, and Joel Peter Witkin.

• By photographers born 1940-1959

Becky Cohen, Jan Dibbets, Flor Garduño, Andreas Gursky, Barbara Kruger, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Martha Rosler, Tokihiro Sato, Michael Schmidt, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, and William Wegman.

• By photographers born 1960-1979

Jeanne Dunning.

• By photographers born 1980-

• "Knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be a person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen."
  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), born Hungary, active in the USA, a photographer. See Bauhaus.
  
  
• "Photological proof is not stringent, it is merely overpowering."
  Theodore Adorno (1903-1969), German philosopher, an aesthetic and critical theorist.
  
  
• "To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeting reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
  Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), French photographer.
  
  
• "One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud."
  Diane Arbus (1923-1971), American photographer.
  
  
• "What makes photography a strange invention — with unforeseeable consequences — is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
  John Berger, contemporary art critic. See light and time.
  
  
• "For a long time — at least six decades — photographs have laid down the tracks of how important conflicts are judged and remembered. The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one. Photographs have an insuperable power to determine what we recall of events, and it now seems probable that the defining association of people everywhere with the war that the United States launched pre-emptively in Iraq last year will be photographs of the torture of Iraqi prisoners by Americans in the most infamous of Saddam Hussein's prisons, Abu Ghraib." Susan Sontag, contemporary American writer, "Regarding the Torture of Others," New York Times Magazine, May 23, 2004, p. 25. See memory.

• The Association of Photographers.
  
  
• Camera Club of New York. Informative home page of this organization, which was founded in 1888. Features a lengthy club history, a description of the club's extensive darkroom facilities, membership news, and schedules for classes and lectures. Also includes a gallery consisting of a single image each from current and recent club-sponsored exhibitions, as well as several small online-only exhibitions. The Camera Club of New York is widely known because of the memberships of Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Clarence White, and Gertrude Kasebier.
  
  
• Camera Review.
  
  
• Eastman Kodak Company. Kodak has a glossary of photographic terms.
  
  
• FotoForum.
  
  
• International Center of Photography. Established to collect, preserve, and exhibit notable twentieth-century works, with a special emphasis on documentary photography; to teach photography at all levels, and to provide a forum for the exchange of critical ideas and information.
  
  
• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. Collection, conservation, bibliographies, contact addresses and history of these media.
  
  
• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA.
  
  
• Photographs from Detroit Publishing Co., 1880-1920. A searchable collection of over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies and 300 color lithograph prints, including 900 large format photos by William Henry Jackson. A subsite at the Library of Congress. Heavy on eastern U.S. place subjects.
  
  
• PhotoNet.
  

Also see Ambrotype, aperture, art careers, camera, cinema, collodion wet plate, daguerreotype, digital photography, frisket, interdisciplinary, negative, paper, photogram, photogravure, photomontage, photon, photorealism, Photoshop, photoscreen, polypropylene, positive, science and art, solander box, telephoto lens, telephoto shot, time, video, wide-angle lens, and wide-angle shot.

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