Funding for Photographic History Research
If you’re a student, instructor, professor, or independent researcher of the history of photography, finding funding to support your work...
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Ten Early Women Photographers You Should Know
In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m shining a light on some of the many under-recognized and under-valued women photographers of the...
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Who's on First?
There's no doubt about it: I do love the history of photography. There are so many great personalities, stories, discoveries and, above...
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A Brief History of Photography and Philanthropy: Part 6: George Eastman’s Radical Generosity
In 1922 a little-known accountant named Moses Cotsworth became fixated with designing a highly symmetrical calendar system that he...
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A Brief History of Photography and Philanthropy, Part 3
Westward the Course of the Empire Photography played an essential role in the Euro-American exploration of the western North America in...
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A Brief History of Photography and Philanthropy, Part 2: The Sad Tale of Mr. Brady
“This man…sent his organization into the field of battle to take pictures of the fight that was going on…. This man has given twenty‒five...
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A Brief History of Photography and Philanthropy, Part 1
It All Started When It Started “Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of cholorform!” ~Jane Welsh...
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