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Reddit Asks ChatGPT to Restore World’s Oldest Photo and the Results are Horrible https://petapixel.com/2025/06/17/reddit-asks-chatgpt-to-restore-worlds-oldest-photo-and-the-results-are-horrible/ #historyofphotography #earlyphotography #nicephoreniepce #daguerreotype #generativeai #Technology #heliograph #chatgpt #Analog #reddit #News

This #photographer documented #NativeAmericanTribes before they vanished https://zorz.it/gFkHg | #MattGrowcoot #AmericanWest #EdwardSCurtis #EthnicPhotographer #HistoryOfPhotography #NativeAmericansOldWest

📷 A Youthful Studio Photograph of Painter Osman Hamdi Bey at the Age of 13, Taken Using the Daguerreotype Technique in 1855 #HistoryOfPhotography

📖 Num artigo publicado na revista Revelar, Leonor Sá analisa o papel do retrato judiciário em termos filosóficos e como instrumento biopolítico de poder na segunda metade do século XIX e como este tipo de retrato (ou #mugshot) acabou por fascinar grandes artistas plásticos e o imaginário público.

🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/RL/article/view/14504

#Histodons #Photography #HistoryOfPhotography #CulturalStudies #Biopolitics #Fotografia #HistóriaDaFotografia #Biopolítica #RetratoJudiciário

Capa do número de Junho de 2024 da Revelar, Revista de Estudos da Fotografia e da Imagem, editada pelo Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.

From her retrospective. That story moves me. The Leica came later, the Rolleiflex will be the one in the self portraits. Those I bought in a book. #Photography #HistoryOfPhotography #EastCoastKin #VivianMaier

From the Vivian Maier retrospective at Fotografiska in New York.

Kudos to the hero who made a sticker for William Henry Fox Talbot.
#HistoryOfPhotography
#photography

A stack of vinyl stickers rests on a wooden table. A black and white, high contrast line art representation of over of the founders of photography, William Talbot, sits on top. He is balding, dressed in a Victorian style, and looks well-fed.

Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence & Rules
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

Eminently successful as a portraitist, Claudet also demonstrated a broad interest in photography in general - in technical problems, paper processes, and in aesthetic matters.
#AntoineFrabcoisClaudet
#Photography #HistoryOfPhotography #Daguerotype #Book #Art #page42

More shameless self-promoting. Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine, Sunday, 24 Nov 2024.

#historyofphotography
#photography
#photographybooks
#WashingtonState
#WashingtonTerritory
#booksaboutphotography
#vintagephotography

Reproduction of a new newspaper article about me and my book, Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900. It includes a picture of me holding my book, plus several images that are in the book. The main image is a picture of Ida B. Smith's photography studio in Olympia, Washington in 1895. It shows a woman in a long black dress sitting in front of a large view camera while under a substantial skylight.

The French and English Fleets at Cherbourg, by Gustave Le Gray, 1858. This sublime marine view is part of the recent mass release of 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works by the Metropolitian Museum of Art.

#photography
#historyofphotography
#photohistory
#Le Gray
#marineviews
#oceanviews
#sailingships

An ocean view with numerous 19th-century sailing ships in the distance. The image is divided vertically in half, with a cloudless sky at the top and the dark ocean at the bottom. The ships sit in a row along the dividing line between lightness and darkness.

George Tames - The Loneliest Job (1961). At the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, in a press photo exhibit. He leaned like this because of his bad back and was only reading a newspaper, but we'd readily believe it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

#Photography #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #PhotoJournalism #JFK

JFK leaned over the Oval Office desk on his hands, facing away. Three windows light the image and put him in in silhouette.

Press markings in grease pencil, red stamp, and yellow post-it notes on the back of the JFK photo.

A Fascinating Short History of the Kodak Snapshot https://petapixel.com/2024/10/03/a-fascinating-short-history-of-the-kodak-snapshot/ #historyofphotography #historyofcameras #kodakbrownie #Features #snapshot #Analog #Kodak

“At that time a device called a camera obscura was used by artists to project an image into a wooden box. Talbot believed that this image could be made permanent and abandoned his political career in 1835 to focus on his new project.“ #artHistory #historyOfPhotography

https://mastodonapp.uk/@VictorianCommons/113152041043780000

I loved this from Bruce Gilden in an interview playing at his Fotografiska exhibit:

“I’m angry. I’ll always be angry. If I stop being angry, I’ll lose my art. I’ll stop being Bruce Gilden.”

There was another I can only paraphrase: he knows he can't be Cartier-Bresson, but he can be the best possible version of Bruce Gilden. Words to live by.

#BruceGilden #HistoryOfPhotography #PhotoHistory #StreetPhotography #PortraitPhotography #Photography #Fotografiska

Bikers in black leather. Two men in the foreground, more in the background, and the shot includes another man’s outstretched hands. It’s a moment in a conversation.

Governess and nanny shoots over 150k photos in her lifetime, never shows them. Doesn't develop some. She ages in poverty. In 2007, her work is auctioned from a forgotten storage locker. It goes viral on Flickr. Now there are documentaries and books. Dying in 2009, she's never to know she's now seen as one of the great 20th century street photographers. That’s fake, right?

https://www.vivianmaier.com

#VivianMaier #HistoryOfPhotography #PhotoHistory #StreetPhotography #Photography #Fotografiska

Sign at the Vivian Maier exhibit. It reads:

The life of Vivian Maier (1926-2009), is a fascinating story about one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century.
This exhibition presents a holistic view of her work, focusing on the major themes that defined her creative output.
Her photographic language lies at the crossroads of humanist photo-graphy, a style she likely owes to her French roots, and American street photography, which informs her traditional visuals. Maier uses street scenes, sidewalk chronicles, portraits, self-portraits and gestures to depict a precise record of her time. She meticulously documented the urban fabric and socio-political changes of American society in New York and Chicago from the 1950s to the 1990s. She portrays this time period through photography and film, creating a rich and complex visual language.

Vivian Maier belonged to the invisible working-class at the height of the American dream, allowing her to only be a witness to it. It took a long time for her work to see the light and to be revealed.

This exhibition presents, for the first time in the U.S, a complete presentation of her dense body of work, and reveals Maier, the "amateur" photographer belongs alongside some of the greatest names in photographic history, such as Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Self portrait of Vivian Meier shot into a shop mirror with multiple angles. Black and white. New York, 1955.

Vivian Maier’s Rolleiflex in a display case.

One more for #Caturday. Evelyn Hofer: Cat in a Dublin pub (1966)

I believe the pub is Mulligan's in Dublin. Almost 300 years old and appears in a Joyce short story. There's nothing new to say about the photo. Hofer was a master.

#CatsOfMastodon #EvelynHofer #PhotoHistory #HistoryOfPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Ireland #Dublin #BlackAndWhite