Nick Nichols on Assignment

See how fun it is to photograph a wildlife assignment for National Geographic. Okay, it's not always that fun...bugs, chimp urine and charging elephants.

Edward Steichan

"I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.–Edward Steichan"

– after serving as an army photographer in World War I

Alfred Steiglitz: Pictorialism

Alfred Steiglitz was a groundbreaking defender of photography. Pictorialism was a movement in photography where photographers imitated painting. Steiglitz and others later used photography's strengths to their advantage.




Other contemporaries of Steiglitz like Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams helped move photography into its own.

Joel Sartore: Endangered Animal Portraits

RARE from Joel Sartore on Vimeo.

Exposures: Landscape Photography History

Part One

Part Two

Part Three (Edward Weston)

Part Four (Ansel Adams)

Part Five (New Topographics/70s Landscapes)

Part Six (Urbanization)

Part Seven

Part Eight

Part Nine (end)

History of Photography

Historic Photographs

Photo Course: 8 April–13 May

No Photos Allowed in the United Kindom

Photograph at your own risk in the UK.
Link

Cheap Photographers

Antoin Sevruguin

Execute:Man being buried alive, 1870s - 1930s, by Antoin Sevruguin.

Antoin Sevruguin was originally a painter but became a photographer after the death of his father who was a diplomat. Most of his work was done in Persia. He has a powerful body of portraits and street scenes: click here for photos.

What is a Photograph?

photograph by Todd Mcvey
What is a photograph?

The New York Times examines Popular Photography Magazine's posing of the question in response Photoshop-altered contest winners.

Ansel Adams (Ric Burns Documentary)

Susan Meiselas on Photography and Social Justice

Susan Meiselas on Photography and Social Justice (link)

Nonja the Orangutan

photo source link


Nonja the "Orangutan has learned how to take a photograph with a simple camera now has around 70,000 fans on the social networking website facebook." link BBC

Facebook page

Ape photographer pioneer, Coco the gorilla. I always mention the famous gorilla in my classes particularly discussing the simplicity and ease of modern cameras, and the idea that everybody is a photographer. Nonja may enter the fray when discussing the photographic term "chimping."

Photography TImeline

Photo by Eadweard Muybridge

Timeline of Photography Technology