Landscape Photography Timeline

Landscape Photography Timeline

1. 1839-1859

   • 1859-1879
     • 1880-1899
       • 1899- 1919
         • 1919-1939
           • 1939-1959
             • 1959-1979
               • 1979-1999
                 • 1999- Now
                   • Paul Seawright
                     • http://www.paulseawright.com/
                     • Northern Ireland born, study in Newport
                     • He brought the first photography degree to Northern Ireland
                     • Seawright is Professor of Photography and Head of Belfast School of Art at the University of Ulster
                     • He was commissioned to document warzones, such as afganistan
                     • Hidden, 2002
                     • "My work has been concerned with the study of conflict as a site of artistic, cultural and critical production, specifically the photographic interrogation of the conflict in Northern Ireland."
                   • Galen Rowell
                     • https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/01/master-photographer-galen-rowell/
                     • Rowell was the iconic adventure photographer
                     • Galen wrote about every aspect of photography from the business to the philosophy, from technical to moral.
                     • "Live the landscape first, have a passion for that first and let it drive your photography. "
                     • Galens work shows a passion for colour & light. The dramatic affect he achieves is stunning. Often shooting in direct light, diffusing light or combined, often seeking out storm fronts
                     • Fall Reflection North Lake 2001
                   • 2003 Iraq War
                   • 2011 The Gigapixel camera is created pictures can take photograph with 13 billion pixels
                   • 2003 "Cruel and Tender" First major photographic exhibition was held in Tate London
                   • 2004 Tsunami
                   • 2000 Sharp release first cell phone with inbuilt camera - J-SH04
                   • 2008 GoPro HD Hero
                   • 2007 Apple release iPhone
                 • Bernd and Hilla Becher
                   • https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bernd-becher-and-hilla-becher-718
                   • Where conceptual artists & photographers who worked as a duo
                   • Founders of ‘Becher school’ or the ‘Düsseldorf School’ they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists.
                   • They documented a postindustrial society, these images can be interpreted as nostalgic ruminations on a lost era.
                   • Leige-Seraing, Belgium 1980
                 • John Gossage
                   • https://aperture.org/shop/john-gossage-the-pond-book/
                   • He differs from the traditional "beauty" of Ansel Adams nature instead he reveals a subtle vision of reality on the border between humankind and nature.
                   • Gossage's groundbreaking book "The Pond" was published in 1985
                   • Untitled, from The Pond c1985
                 • 1989 Berlin Wall was opened
                 • 1990-91 The Gulf War
                 • 1997 Phiippe Khan is credited with creating the first camera phone
                 • 1980 John Lennon shot dead
                 • 1986 Fuji Quicksnap - built in roll and economically priced
               • Sebastião Salgado
                 • https://www.biography.com/people/sebastião-salgado-40046
                 • Salgado was a Brazilian born Economist who had a degree in Economics before beginning his career in photography in the 1970's
                 • Salgado's photography has often focused on the effects of hardship, poverty and oppression on people of various cultures, and with the effects of industrialization on the natural landscape.
                 • Guatemala 1978
               • Michael Kenna
                 • https://huxleyparlour.com/artists/michael-kenna/
                 • He is known for his monochromatic landscapes
                 • He shoots until all possibilities according to him are finished, for a particular area or subject.
                 • He uses up to 10 hour long exposure
                 • Dawn, Richmond Park, 1979
               • 1963 Kennedy assasinated
               • 1975 Steven Sasson a Kodak engineer invents first digital camera
               • Increased attention paid in American colleges & museums to Photography
               • 1961 Berlin Wall was built
               • 1977 First Star Wars film released
             • Walker Evans
               • http://monovisions.com/biography-documentary-photographer-walker-evans/
               • Evans was known for his influence in the European Modernism movement
               • Walker was one of the most influencial photographers who made his landscape about the here & now. He was known for capturing the mad-made landscape
               • Walker is well known for capturing the Great Depression
               • Auto Graveyard 1941
             • Brett Weston
               • http://www.photographywest.com/pages/weston_bio.html
               • Son of the infamous Edward Weston, Weston began his career at the age of 14
               • He had his first one-man museum show at age 21 at the de Young in San Francisco
               • Weston’s work ultimately became one of the defining poles of contemporary photography with its technical precision, bold design and extremes of abstraction and private imagination
               • Mendenhall Glacier 1973
             • 1939 WWII Began
             • 1937 First Disney film created "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
             • 1946 US Employment Act
             • 1950-53 The Korean War
             • 1945 Hitler commits suicide
             • First photographs of liberated Germany are published which causes shock & outrage
             • 1948 Nikon realease the Nikon 1
             • 1948 Polaroid introduces the successful Instant Image Camera
           • Eugene Atget
             • https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/eugène-atget?all/all/all/all/0
             • Rue de Seine 1924
             • Cardinal reference in the surrealist movement
             • Was orphaned at the age of 5, raised by grandparents. Became a cabin boy
             • Atget became famous for his haunting imagery of the deserted Parisian streets
           • Ansel Adams
             • https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/ansel-adams-269.php
             • Clearing Winter Storm 1937
             • Adams father inherited a prosperous lumber company, Adams would later go on to condemn that industry for depleting redwood forests
             • Created the gift of the Zone system alongside Fred Archer
             • Adams was an environmentalist
           • 1929 The Great Depression begins
           • 1927 General Electric produced the first flash bulb
           • 1922 First 3D film - "Power of Love"
           • 1936 Spanish Civil War
           • 1925 - The Leical
         • Edward Steichen
           • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Steichen
           • The Pond Moonlight 1904
           • Steichen one of the most talented inventive photographers among those working to win public acceptance of photography as a fine art
           • He became the chief photographer of the Conde Nast publications Vogue & Vanity Fair
         • George Eastman
           • He created "Kodak" for mass production for amature photographers
           • Eastman created first rolls of film
           • Created the "Brownie" in 1900 selling price was $1
         • Alfred Stieglitz
           • https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm
           • The Glow of the Night 1897
           • Stieglitz was determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture
         • Pictorialism movement began 1902
         • 1914 WW1 Began
         • 1912 Titanic sank
         • 1916 Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity
         • 1906 First feature length film "The Story of the Gang"
         • 1907 The first movie theatres opened
         • 1900 Reise Camera - the worlds first truly portable camera
       • George Barker
         • http://www.askart.com/artist/George_Barker/11280935/George_Barker.aspx
         • Niagara in Summer, from below. Circa 1888
         • Barker was a Canadian photographer whose trade mark was images of Niagara Falls
         • Barker's original aim was to be a landscape printer, his entire career was as a photographer
       • William Henry Jackson
         • http://whjcollection.com/life.htm
         • Entrance to the highlands, Hudson River 1898
         • Commissioned by the Union Pacific Railroad to document construction and scenery alond the railroad route
         • Had studios in Omaha & Denver
         • Joined the Hayden Survey led by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden; he photographed the unexplored Yellowstone region
       • Modernism begins 1890
       • 1888 First motion picture film "Roundhay Garden Scene" lasts 2.11secs long
       • 1888 Richard Leach Maddox invents Silver Gelatin Process
       • 1880 First photograph to appear in a newspaper published by New York Graphic Daily News
       • 1892 Edison & Dickson invent Motion Picture camera & Kinetoscope
     • Gustave Le Gray
       • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustave-Le-Gray
       • Was a French photographer who originally trained as a painter before finding his true calling of photography around 1847. Le Gray abandoned his family & france when he became bankrupt - he finally settled in Egypt where he lived until he died.
       • Le Gray was the official photographer of Napoleon III & his wife Eugiene
       • Temple of Edfu 1867
       • Le Gray boldly asserted in 1850 that the future of photography would be on paper
     • William England
       • http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/photographers-category/biographies/c-to-f/england-william/
       • Named "One of the worlds finest landscape photographers" by the Photographic News
       • England was the most talented photographer in the company he worked for London Stereoscopic Company
       • Niagara Suspension Bridge 1859
     • First colour photograph taken by Thomas Sutton using Maxwells process called "3 colours method"
     • Julia Margaret Cameron takes her 1st photograph and goes on to become the most famous Victorian Portrait Photographers
   • William Henry Fox Talbot
     • https://www.biography.com/people/william-henry-fox-talbot-9501484
     • Melrose Abbey, 1844
     • Fox Talbot was an English member of parliament, scientist, inventor and a pioneer of photography
     • Developed a process called "Salted Paper Prints" - which created a negative from which images where printed on paper
     • Used a mousetrap camera
     • Mousetrap Cemra
     • Salted Paper prints
   • Boulevard du temple circa 1939
   • Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre
     • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Daguerre
     • Daguerre is believed to of been the first photographer to ever capture a living person in a photograph
     • Develeoped a print called Daguerreotypes - his process entailed forming a high detailed image on sheets of copper, very thinly plated in silver & concealed behind glass
     • Daguerreotype Camera
     • Daguerreotype images known as "Mirror with Memory"
   • 1851 The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace
   • Alexander Wolcot receives 1st patent in photography

2. First photograph ever take was by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827

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