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This is a list of photographs considered the most important in surveys where authoritative sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—but they are all considered key images in the ...
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [ 48 ] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War , becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline.
c. 650 BC: In Sparta, both women and men occasionally appear nude in certain festivals and during exercise. [4] See Gymnopaedia. First century AD: Historian Diodorus Siculus records that the Celts commonly fight naked in battle. [5] Nudity is mentioned several times in the New Testament, none of the examples give it a sexual connotation.
History isn’t just about dates and dusty pages; it’s also about the stories that shape our understanding of the world. But while some make it into textbooks, many interesting ones don’t ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century: selections from the Helen Kornblum collection. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1997. Newhall, Beaumont (1982). The History of Photography: from 1839 to the present. Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0-87070-381-2. Rosenblum, Naomi (2010). A History of Women Photographers. Abbeville Press Publishers.
Image credits: Vestiges of History Family stories are rarely one type or another. When you look at a photo, you might start talking about a beach vacation, but the conversation could lead to the ...