Open Directory - Arts: Photography: Reference: History
See also: This category in other languages: - Presents the art and science of albumen printing, contemporary research, conservation and treatment of images. - Covers daguerreotypes to modernism. Research center features a guide early photo processes, book reviews and information on preserving/protecting valuable photographs. - A non-profit association that collaborates with Elysée Foundation in Lausanne to promote photography in the Middle East and the North Africa by locating, collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of that region. - Famous photographs, and master photographers, that have achieved iconic status as defining moments in history. - Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad. - A website featuring historical image archives and stereo card animations. - The Cuarterolo archive is an image bank focused on 19th century Argentine and Latin American photography that houses over 5000 historic photographs. - Covering the artists involved in photomontage in the Berlin Dada movement, 1980s politics, and the present day. - History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions. - A worldwide index of the books and websites that list photographers and when they worked. - Virtual museum of images from photography, including portraits, architecture, cultural and historical monuments. - Kodachrome dating guide for vintage slides. - An overview of what makes photography what is it today. - A detailed timeline of photography from ancient times to the present. - A discussion of dating a photograph, daguerreotype, tintype, CDV, or Cabinet photo. Photographic technique has always had changes that reflect the latest in scientific innovation. Culture, whether in hairstyles, clothing or settings, can specifically indicate a date an image was taken. - Indexes and links for UK photographers, county by county, for the 19th and early 20th century. - Article and photographs of Commodore Steffens, one of Chicago's foremost society photographer from 1872 to the 1910's. - Presents essays by R. Derek Wood on the history of early photography, the daguerreotype and diorama. - All about Czech and Slovak photography, history, theory, reviews, profiles. - Dedicated to the History of Photography from its origins by French scientist and inventor Nicephore Niepce. Niepce discovered the process known as Heliography. - History of pinhole photography, including theory and construction details. - Many facets of the camera obscura (dark room); the origin of the photographic camera, its place in art, culture and education,vintage instruments,images, photographs, and working camera obscuras are included.
