Curated Content on Photography and Contemporary Art
A living guide to the exhibitions, festivals, and gatherings marking 200 years since the first permanent photograph. Light Turns Two Hundred Two hundred years ago, in a quiet upper room … Read more
The invention of photography was a race. Compare the daguerreotype vs calotype and meet Bayard, Herschel and pioneers in Brazil and Japan.
Talbot carried out his research in parallel with Daguerre’s research. After the announcement of the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, he tried to have the precedence of his work … Read more