Thomas Sutton (photographer)
Thomas Sutton (1819 – 19 March 1875, Pwllheli) was an English photographer, author, and inventor.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph,… Read More »Thomas Edison
Thomas Duncan (painter)
Thomas Duncan, RA (1807 – 25 May 1845) was a Scottish portrait and historical painter born in Kinclaven, Perthshire. Educated at the Perth Academy, he began studying law, but abandoned… Read More »Thomas Duncan (painter)
Florence Owens Thompson
Florence Owens Thompson (September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983), born Florence Leona Christie, was the subject of Dorothea Lange’s photo Migrant Mother (1936), an iconic image of the Great… Read More »Florence Owens Thompson
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce (born Joseph Niépce) March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field.… Read More »Nicéphore Niépce
Daguerreotype
The daguerreotype /dəˈɡɛrətaɪp/ was the first commercially successful photographic process, invented around 1837 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. The physical daguerreotype itself is a direct positive made in the camera on a… Read More »Daguerreotype
70 mm film
70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge for still and motion picture photography, with higher resolution than the standard 35 mm motion picture film format. As used… Read More »70 mm film
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art… Read More »Alfred Stieglitz
Photojournalism
Photo journalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story.… Read More »Photojournalism
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it… Read More »Great Depression