PHOTOGRAPHY / History

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper focuses on the arguments and theories put forward by Walter Benjamin in Little History of Photography to delve into the complex relationships among art, technology, and society. While mechanically reproduced artworks lose their “aura”, they also reach the general public, thereby stimulating a growing demand for artworks; mechanical reproduction also leads to a shift from the cult value of artworks to exhi…

Reference · Wikidata

the invention and development of the camera and the creation of permanent images

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

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. There are no artifacts or descriptions that indicate any attempt to capture images with light sensitive materials prior to the 18th century.

Book · DOAB

This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Catholic convert whose work in Palestine between 1921 and 1923 provides a remarkable lens on the intersecting dynamics of modernity, religion, colonialism, and visual culture. Drawing on over 26,000 photographs, it situates Scholten’s work within transnational religious,…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA