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8 - History of Photography

Books

Jonathan Green	American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present
Beaumont Newhall	The History of Photography
Naomi Rosenblum	A World History of Photography

Websites

American Photographs: The First Century

Cameras: The Technology of Photographic Imaging

Cased Images in the Princeton University Archives

Center for Alternative and Historic Processes

Collodions & Clopinettes

Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project

Early Visual Media Phantasmagoria, Pepper's ghost, anamorphoses, stereoscopes, physiontrace, etc.

Emily Dickinson, Photography, and 19th-Century American Culture

First Snapshots: At Home and Abroad

Fixing Shadows

Hearsay of the Sun: Photography, Identity, and the Law of Evidence

Historic Camera

Historical societies:

American Photographic Historical Society

Photographic Historical Society Rochester

Photographic Historical Society of Canada

Photographic Historical Society of New England

History and Practice of the Art of Photography 1849

History of Microfilm: 1839 to the Present

History of Photography Time Line National Geographic Society

Into The Light: John William Draper and the Earliest American Photographic Portraits

Bill Jay on Photography / Essays and Articles

I Photo Central

A Manual of Photography: Intended as a Text Book for Beginners and a Book of Reference for Advanced Photographers (1868) Mathew Carey Lea (1823-1897)

Dr. Robert Leggat's History of Photography

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce:

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce House

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - World's First Photograph

Photographic Chronology

Photo Mags Before 1950

Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography

Lincoln Portrait - The Earliest Known Daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln

Magic Lantern:

Keystone View Company Photographs

Magic Lantern Site 'De Luikerwaal'

Tableaux vivants:

Cat House Killer Bill Wolf

Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head (1859)

Kate Matthews Collection

Wonderland Yeondoo Jung

Third View: Rephotography Project

Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition of 1896

R. Derek Wood:

Midley History of Photography

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