- American Museum of Photography, The
Features online exhibits from the history of photography from daguerreotypes to Ansel Adams and includes information on early photo processes.
www.photographymuseum.com
- Albumen
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A look at the history, science, and preservation of albumen printing of the 19th century.
albumen.stanford.edu
- BoxCameras.com
Antique cameras, accesssories, ads, and ephemera.
www.boxcameras.com
- PhotoHistory
Chronological history of photography in Japan.
photojpn.org/HIST/hist1.html
- Niepce, Joseph Nic?phore (1765-1833)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Masters/Niepce__Joseph_Nicephore__1765_1833_
- Eastman, George (1854-1932) (5)
Read about George Eastman, the innovator and entrepreneur, who invented the roll of film and revolutionized the photography industry by making it accessible to the masses. Sites include biography, history of the invention, patents, legacy, facts, and career highlights of founder of Eastman Kodak Company.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Eastman__George__1854_1932_
- Midley History of Photography
Essays by R. Derek Wood on the history of early photography, the daguerreotype, and diorama. Includes bibliography.
www.midley.co.uk
- Get The Picture: Thinking About Photographs
Featuring the work and commentary of photographers who are in the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.
www.artsmia.org/get-the-picture
- Land, Edwin Herbert (1909-1991)
American physicist and inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera in 1947.
www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/land.htm
- American Photography: A Century of Images
Companion site to the PBS series capturing the images of a century of change and the role the camera has played both in creating and documenting it.
www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography
- HowStuffWorks: How Photographic Film Works
Covers the basic science involved when still and moving pictures are captured on photographic film.
science.howstuffworks.com/film.htm
- KODAK e-Magazine: The Kodak Colorama
Described as "the world's largest photograph," this showcases the 18 x 60 foot projected images that graced the east balcony of New York's Grand Central Station for 40 years.
www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/coloramas/colorama.html
- Reconstructing Prokudin-Gorskii's Color Photography
Each image was photographed three times in black and white, once each with a red, green, and blue filter, then projected in unison to create a color image.
lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/prokhtml/prokcompos.html
- Early Visual Media
A tour of the strange prehistory of photography and film, including ghost images, phantasmagoria, and illusions.
users.telenet.be/thomasweynants
- Women in Photography International Archive
Two historical essay-galleries by Peter Palmquist on California photographers and women who photographed Native American Indians.
www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Palmquist/index.htm
- D.A. Woodward, Photographic Educator and Inventor
Article about the 19th-century inventor of the solar enlarging camera.
www.brightbytes.com/woodward.html
- Photographic Views of Meiji: A Portrait of Old Japan
Gallery of hand-colored photographs from the 1870s and 1880s by Felice Beato, Raimund von Stillfried, and Kusakabe Kimbei.
albumen.stanford.edu/gallery/gadd
- Cameras: The Technology of Photographic Imaging
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, collection of cameras, early photographic lenses and accessories, and darkroom equipment.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras/index.htm?contents
- Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mand? (1787-1851)
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Daguerre__Louis_Jacques_Mande__1787_1851_
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