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With the invention of the Kodak camera in 1888, photos became part of everyday life

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SAW a rapid improvement in photographic technology. In 1839, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre invented the ...

See history unfold through the world's first photographs

From the first daguerreotypes of Paris and London to early images of America's booming cities, these incredible black-and-white photos show what the world looked like in the ...

In New Bedford, a camera-ready city; in Hartford, photography’s earliest days — but with a twist

Early Portrait Photography in New Bedford" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and "The Scenic Daguerreotype in America: 1840-1860” at the Wadsworth in Hartford offer excellent looks at photography of ...
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Photography : the groundbreaking moments / Florian Heine ; [translated by Jane Michael]

Before photography -- The invention of photography -- Portraits -- Landscapes -- Still lifes -- War photography -- Self-portraits -- The nude -- X-ray photography ...
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The history of photography from the earliest use of the camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914 by Helmut Gernsheim in collaboration with Alison Gernsheim

The Prehistory of photography -- Photochemical investigations -- Phantoms of Photography -- The First Conception of photography -- The Invention of photography -- The First Photographer -- The First ...