Explore how technological inventions &amp; social changes affected the development of photography and the tricky issues—including censorship, propaganda and the staging of images—photography had to transcend.
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I’m Dominic Righini-Brand, a professional photographer and photography teacher. I’ve always been fascinated by the photography’s history and all of the inventions and discoveries, which led to chemical photography and eventually digital photography’s development, and with this short class I invite your to explore the evolution of photographic techniques and photography as a medium.
This class is for anyone who is interested in photography and who wants to enhance their understanding of historic photographic techniques &amp; processes by learning about photography’s origins and how it developed throughout the ages.
In this class I will cover some of the most important inventions and milestones in the technological history of photography:
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<li>starting with pinhole cameras and camera obscuras,</li>
<li>to the development of early chemical photographic processes, such as the Daguerreotype and Calotype,</li>
<li>to the development of cameras which were available to the general public and the rise of Kodak as one of photography’s great dynasties,</li>
<li>to experimental early colour photography and development of commercially-viable colour film stock;</li>
<li>to introduction of rangefinder and SLR cameras;</li>
<li>and finally to the development of digital photography.</li>
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And I will also touch upon how photography has been used and changed as a media from mid-19th century, through World War I and War War II, to the modern day with our smart phones and social media.
Originally I created this lecture when teaching photography students at the British High School of Art &amp; Design (Moscow), and have now adapted it into a short Skillshare class specially for you!
I hope you'll enjoy learning about photography's journey though time and share my passion for old cameras and the photographs created using them!
Explore Our Other <a href="https://www.skillshare.com/browse/photography" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Photography</a> Classes:
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<li><a href="https://skl.sh/2ky0dvJ" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Pinhole Photography: from Matchbox to Working Camera</a></li>
<li><a href="https://skl.sh/2ht4669" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Film Photography: Developing &amp; Digitising Black &amp; White Film at Home</a></li>
<li><a href="https://skl.sh/2SZEOwD" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Beginner’s Guide to Retouching Old Photographs in Adobe Photoshop</a></li>
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Explore Archives of Historic Photographs:
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<li><a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/prokudin-gorskii/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Library of Congress — Prokudin-Gorskii Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?filter-department=Photography&amp;limit=323" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Cleveland Museum of Art — Photography Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=photography" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a></li>
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Introduction

Photography: The Beginning

Photography: The Pioneering Years

Photography: The Golden Era

Photography in the Post-Modernist Era

Photography and the New World

Conclusion

Questionnaire — A Brief Technological History of Photography.pdf

My Journey With Photography

The Camera’s Journey Through Time: A Brief History of Photography

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