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In 2006, a print became the most expensive photo sold. [30] [31] [s 2] The Steerage: 1907 Alfred Stieglitz: Aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom [32] Landmark modernist photo depicting immigrants on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II. [33] [s 1] [s 2] Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill ...
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam by Hans Holbein the Younger. Authentic portraits are ideal, but none exist for the vast majority of historic personalities. Where they exist, authentic portraits, i.e. artistic depictions of a person that purport to provide an individualized, authentic representation of that person's unique looks, based either directly or indirectly on a witness's first-hand ...
Image credits: history.season #43. 29 year old Pfc. Ivan Babcock of the US Army’s 165th Signal Photo Company poses with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave during WW2.
Local photographer Edward A. Barnwell wanted to take a picture of "the biggest man" at the convention and invited Lincoln to his People's Ambrotype Gallery at 24 North Water Street to pose for this portrait. The next day, after Richard Oglesby introduced the "Rail Splitter", convention delegates unanimously endorsed Lincoln for President.
The invention of photography in 1839 changed the way people lived. All of a sudden, humans had the ability to capture a single moment through a still image and immortalize it for future generations.
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich As evident from Niépce's and Maxwell's experiments, and as photographic process historian Mark Osterman told Bored Panda, the processes behind colored photographs ...
Other photographs are excerpts from larger historic collections, such as Roger Fenton's and Alexander Gardner's respective groundbreaking documentations of the Crimean War and American Civil War. Margin notes document the circumstantial background of many photographs, as well as instances where the images have been accused of being staged.
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.