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"To collect photographs is to collect the world"- Susan Sontag
"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed" - Susan Sontag


Some dates to remember:

1826 - The world's first photograph taken.

1838 - World's first daguerrotype (type of photograph/process) by the French.

1856 - Introduction of flexible film, printing from glass plates

1867 - Halftone prints appear in weekly magazines, reproduction printed from a block that created the picture with black dots.

1880 - Halftone reproduction appears in daily newspapers(later giving rise to photojournalism).

1885 - The rise of photo agencies.

1890 - Photojournalism begins.

1891 - The moving picture camera gets moving.

One of the key events photographed early on was weddings.

Material from a lecture, main author: Susan Sontag.





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