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Salt print [s 2] Valley of the Shadow of Death: 23 April 1855 Roger Fenton Sevastopol, Crimea Wet collodion negative Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3]
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
Some triplets (called clone triplets) are the same image repeated with slight alterations (for example toned to different colors, or mixed color and monochromatic photos) or, more rarely, seemingly identical images with minor, detailed changes. Triplets are usually framed together or, in galleries, mounted near each other on the wall.
The Arts (concentrating on photography's evolution throughout the 19th century and its later application to cultural exploitation); Society (documenting images that captured moments that shifted public acquaintance with political, social, cultural and environmental issues); War (pivotal moments of conflict and associated violence); and
Triple exposure photograph from 1915. In photography and cinematography, multiple exposure is a technique in which the camera shutter is opened more than once to expose the film multiple times, usually to different images. The resulting image contains the subsequent image/s superimposed over the original.
This WikiProject aims at improving articles about the history of photography. "History" includes contemporary history. As in other fields, making photographs for a living does not qualify someone as a subject for Wikipedia. The emphasis in this Project is on the photographs that result from cameras, darkrooms, printers and other gizmos, not on ...
Semiotics of photography is the observation of symbolism used within photography or "reading" the picture. This article refers to realistic, unedited photographs not those that have been manipulated in any way. Roland Barthes was one of the first people to study the semiotics of images. He developed a way to understand the meaning of images.
Pictorialism is an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of creating an image rather than simply recording it.