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One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
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]
Old Faithful: 1870 William Henry Jackson: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States Mammoth-format plate [s 2] Great Falls of the Yellowstone River: 1871 William Henry Jackson Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States Albumen print [s 4] Chicago Fire: October 1871 Unknown Chicago, Illinois, United States Unknown [s 2]
Old-time photography, also known as antique and amusement photography, is a genre of novelty photography. Old-time photography allows consumers to pose as if for an antique photo in costumes and props from a particular period, sometimes printed in sepia tone to give the photo a vintage look. [1] Popular themes include the Old West, the ...
Another photo shows the transformation of Cancún, Mexico, between 1979 and 2009. The before-and-after pictures show the rapid urbanization after the city became a tourist hotspot in the ‘70s.
The RCA Building in December 1933 during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the near-completed RCA Building (now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20, 1932.
This was at a time before the Place de la République had been built and the location is where now Rue du Faubourg du Temple joins the Place de la République. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Two other images were taken on the same day, one at midday, which survives, as well as a third plate in the evening which has since been lost. [ 9 ]
National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork New York Daily News (1880–2007), online photo archive DailyNewsPix, with photographs dating back to 1880 New York Public Library: ≈ 30% Public domain