History of photography

Mathew B. Brady

Apr 16, 1822

Portraits of presidents and celebrities

Early Documentary Photography

Apr 16, 1839

Photographs came to American

Ambrotype

Apr 16, 1851

Wet-plate collodion process, inveted by Frederick Scott Archer

War Photpgraphy

Apr 16, 1863

Changed how people perceived war

Modern Documentary Photography

Apr 16, 1880

Dramatic images showing the human consequences of urban growth and industrial excess

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

Apr 16, 1895

Photograph of migratory farm workers

Society of Professional Journalists

Apr 16, 1909

Includes broadcast print and online journalists as a career

International Federeation of Journalists

Apr 16, 1926

Largest organization of journalists

Motion Pictures interest by Beaumon Newhall

Jan 1, 1927

Beaumont Newhall was interested in this kind of photography.

German experimental camera

Jan 1, 1928

Beaumont was a student

Jan 1, 1930

He studied Art History in the Harvard Univerisity

James Curtis

Apr 16, 1930

Work on a book manuscript on the impact of racial attitudes on documentary phtography.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Apr 16, 1930

Documentary Photography

Schoolarship

Jan 1, 1932

He recived a schoolarship to go to Paris

First day at the Museum of Modern Art

Jan 1, 1935

First job

Retrospective (Photography 1839-1937)

Jan 1, 1937

Exhibition of photography

Book of first 100 years of photography (Newhall)

Jan 1, 1938

Profesor at the University of New Mexico (1972-1985)

Jan 1, 1972

Beaumont Newhall

Apr 16, 1993

Author of the "The History Photography"