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Alfred Stieglitz: Child with Striped Dress (Younger Raab Child)
Principle of the camera obscura
Nicéphore Niépce: View from the Window at Le Gras
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre: View of the Boulevard du Temple, Paris
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre: Still Life
Facsimiles of photogenic drawings
Southworth & Hawes: Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw
Kusakabe Kimbei: Samurai in Armour
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Portrait of Two Men (John Henning and Alexander Handyside Ritchie)
Stereoscope
A person in glasses examines a strip of film in a darkroom. Overlaid text reads "What's the point of film photography?" with "film photography?" highlighted in blue.
Frank Sadorus: Photographing Life on the Illinois Plains
How Were Photos Made in the Early Days of Photography?
The Life and Inventions of George Eastman
See the equipment used by photographer Joe Capra to shoot photos of penguins at Neko Harbor, Antarctica
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Key People

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Hilla Becher
German photographer
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Roy Stryker
American government official and photographer
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John Draper
American astronomer
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David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
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Robert Adamson
Scottish photographer
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Albert Sands Southworth
American photographer
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Josiah Johnson Hawes
American photographer
Curtis, Edward S.
Edward S. Curtis
American photographer
Imogen Cunningham: photograph of Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat
Iranian-born American artist
Edward Weston at Point Lobos, 1945, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Edward Weston
American photographer
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
American photographer
Walker Evans
Walker Evans
American photographer
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun
French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist
Dada exhibit
Hannah Höch
German artist
Richard Avedon, 1963
Richard Avedon
American photographer
Learn about Eugene Atget's photography in a discussion by John Szarkowski
Eugène Atget
French photographer
Lee Miller and Frederick Laws
Lee Miller
American photographer, artist, and model
Edward Steichen, 1960.
Edward Steichen
American photographer
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John Heartfield
German artist

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Original caption: Close-up of leaves, from directly above, "In Glacier National Park," Montana. Photograph shot in 1942 by Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Black and white photograph. Photography. Landscape photographer.
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