The new image: Photograph

Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) also gave the first clear descriptionand early analysis and invented the
camera obscura and pinhole camera.
10th century AD

The origin of Photography

1822- Niepce, a research chemist succeeded in making the first
permanent photographic image. His efforts to improve the lithographic
process led him to this invention
-The effort was to find a new aesthetic or artistic medium not a
mechanical device

The origin of Photography

1822- Niepce, a research chemist succeeded in making the first
permanent photographic image. His efforts to improve the lithographic
process led him to this invention
-The effort was to find a new aesthetic or artistic medium not a
mechanical device

Niepce- view from his

window at Le Gras1826

The origin of Photography

Niepce then joined hands with a younger man, Daguerre who had devised an
improved camera. After ten more years of research, the daguerreotype , using
positive exposures was unveiled publicly in 1839
-Daguerre was a skilled painter, and he turned to the camera to heighten the
illusion of his huge paintings.

-Fox Talbot worked further on this invention to develop a paper negative

form from which positives could be made.
For Talbot photography was a substitute for drawing.

-Fox Talbot worked further on this invention to develop a paper negative

form from which positives could be made.
For Talbot photography was a substitute for drawing.

Rejilander- the two paths-1867

Robinson- Fading away- 1858

Portraiture
Making the average man
memorable
A tribute to democracy

Portraiture
Making the known memorable- Nadar

Sarah Bernhardt

Portraiture
Making the known memorable- Nadar

Georges Sand, 1877

Photographer's Wife, 1890

Portraiture
Making the known memorable- Nadar

Alexander III of Russia

Charles Baudelaire

Nadar

Labruguiere from the air in 1889, an image by Arthur Batut

Timothy OSullivan

Cannon de Chelle1873

Timothy OSullivan

Desert Sand
Hills near Sink
of Carson,
Nevada

Photojournalism

Timothy H. O'Sullivan- civil war of America

Photojournalism

View of the battlefield,

Virginia, July 1861
Mathew Brady

Photojournalism

Deck and turret of

U.S.S. Monitor
James River, Va.
July 9, 1862
Mathew Brady

Photojournalism

Six officers of the

17th New York
Battery
Gettysburg, Pa.
June 1863
Mathew Brady

Alexander Gardner-. Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

Six officers of the

17th New York
Battery
Gettysburg, Pa.
June 1863
Mathew Brady

Muybridge and Leyland Stanford

Motion photography

Motion photography

Painted Photographs- India

Painted Photographs

The miniature tradition

The miniature tradition

The miniature tradition

Jujhar Singh Bundela Kneels in

Submission to Shah Jahan',
painted by Bichitr, c. 1630

The miniature tradition

A Holy man from Mughal period,

India.19th century

The miniature tradition

Babur-courtier

The miniature tradition

Sri Raga recital to KrishnaRadha, 19th century

Early Indian Photography

Early Indian Photography

Early Indian Photography

Early Indian Photography

Early Indian Photography

Painted Photographs

Painted Photographs

Painted Photographs

Painted Photographs

Painted Photographs

Ethnographic photographs

Portrait of Nawab Sultan Shah,

Nawab of Bhopal, G.C.S.I, C.S.I;
Kaiser-e-Hind (1872).

'India - Groups. 1874'. Dancers and musicians, Kashmir province.

Nautch dancers at Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, taken by Hooper and

Western in the 1860s

Native man and women of the Pilla

caste

A water carrier or bhisti in India,

circa 1870.

Swamy Bull

An Indian ascetic wearing an

iron collar, circa 1870.

Famine as the eternal condition of India

Famine as the eternal condition of India

Famine as the eternal condition of India

Famine as the eternal condition of India