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~CAMERAS, PHOTOGRAPHY
& Cinematography~

~A~ Mostly Historical *~

           British Museum of the History of Science offers this online display of its collection of cameras, early photographic lenses and accessories, and darkroom equipment. It also includes examples of early photographs and useful explanations of the early methods and technology.

A History of Photography (from its beginnings till the 1920s ) This is designed to be a resource on the history of photography. In addition to brief discriptions of many of the most important photographers of the period, it contains information on some of the most significant processes used during the early days of photography.  Site by Dr. Robert Leggat MA M.Ed FRPS FRSA

Galleries : History of Photography Timeline (1495 - 1996) of photography. Includes pictures and links. Find out where the word "photography" came from and who first used it.

StillJournalPhoto Photography has a rich history characterised by rapid development and change over the past two centuries. This site aims aims to capture current cultural trends in photography by highlighting creative work and technique across the web.

Artlex : Visual Arts Dictionary Online  Start here with a definition of photography and follow links on and off site for valuable resources.
See numerous examples of photographs:


The World's First Photograph Learn about Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and the first photograph. Find out what happened to it here.

Photographic Historical Society of Canada includes
PHOTOGRAPHIC CANADIANA
& topics/links (wood and brass cameras, early colour process called the Autochrome, online museums)

The Daguerrian Society a number of galleries of stunning 19th century imagery as well as the  work of modern daguerreians.

Matthew Brady's Portraits Smithsonion Institute presents Mathew Brady's portraits and explains photographic process used by the photographer.

American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
                    Featured Topics:  1. Technology Applied Sciences   - daguereotype and
                                                      streoscopic photography, early examples of American               photography that can be used to demonstrate various principles of media
          3. Motion Pictures
          6. Photography & Prints (50 collections listed)
          7, Panoramic Photographs ~ 1851-1991   (approximately 4000 images )

The American Museum of Photography   Links to a wide range of exhibitions : Three galleries of images from Talbot to Ansel Adams, informal portraits from the Dawn of Photography , the art of the Carte de Visite, the Daguerreotype and information on dozens of early photographic processes.


Pinoneers of early photography were not just men. Media contains values and beliefs...... "take pictures of women or women take pictures".

A selection of early American photography. Of special media interest is the online exhibit
Performing Arts in the American West  19th century

Description: Lewis Wickes Hine's self described "work portraits" series began shortly after World War I when he returned from Europe where he was working with the American Red Cross documenting the plight of war refugees. This time, instead of documenting the decrepit working conditions of men, women and children in American factories, he chose to glorify the worker and the machine in a more positive way.



Description: American master photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is probably best known for Changing New York, her 1935-1938 Federal Art Project documentation of the city's rapidly changing built environment.

Description: Lewis Hine was commissioned to photograph the construction of the building in 1930. Taking many of the risks the construction workers endured, Hine photographed the workers in precarious positions while they secured the iron and steel framework of the structure. In order to obtain the best vantage points, Hine was swung out in a specially designed basket 1,000 feet above Fifth Avenue.

Images of African Americans : 19th century Civil War  and post-war photography that depicts African American culture and American social roles. Media principles of constructed reality and values & ideologies can be seen in these examples.

Harlem 1900 -1940 : The photography depicts African American culture and American social roles in Harlem during the early part of the 20th century.

Description: An online exhibit that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program.

Pictorialism: Photography as Art Most of the photographers participating in the salon exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were known as pictorialists. The technique was controversial, different from documentary or realistic photography. In some ways the fore-runner of digital imaging.

Pictorialists and Snapshooters  Between 1890 and 1910,changes in the photo process meant photographers no longer needed to prepare their own negatives or know how to mix developing chemicals or make their own printing paper. These technological changes brought about numerous alterations in photographic practice. Learn about avocational artistic photography, and the emergence of snapshooting and event or street photography.

Includes nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography. Online resources and exhibits are broken into the following categories: general and historical - dauuerreotypes, landscape, portrait, aerial and space, nature and science,  and documentary .

George Eastman House : Online Museum of Photography
Includes: photography from 1839 to today, the Pre-Cinema Project( images of media and devices used before motion picture film ), images of photographic equipment and related technologies , the still photography collections ( by subject ).


The GEH Brownie Collection What is a brownie and where did Kodak come from ?

Graflex.Org Dedicated to promoting the use and preservation of Graflex Speed Graphics and other classic and large-format cameras.




For photographs from around the world go to:



D] Centropa historians are compiling the largest online library of privately owned pre (and post)-Holocaust family photographs ever assembled in Central and Eastern Europe.


~ B ~ Pinhole Cameras & Alternative Photography * ~

          What happens when you combine polaroid film processing with pinhole cameras or transfer a polaroid image to glass or stone? What is created when you blend digital imaging with the photograph processes of the 19th century?
          By combining the older photography techniques and methods with the new technology of today, new art forms and media are invented.

Pinhole Photography: History, Images & Cameras 
Pinhole photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera. Includes: Pictorialism and Popular Pinhole Photography.

pinholeresource.com - from cameras to resources & gallery

Handmade Pinhole Paper Camera - the pinhole camera that becomes a photograph

Pinhole Photography Educational Site - Information on pinhole photography, camera project, history, images & links.

Pinhole Visions - The Art of Pinhole Photography - News and events relating to the art of pinhole photography around the world.

Oatmeal Box Camera and other alternative photographic technologies : Instuctionsand examples of -  3-Dimensional pictures, Blueprints/Cyanotypes,  Fake Daugerreotypes,  Pinhole Cameras & Photograms,   Solarizations   &  Van Dyke Brownprints .    

cyanotypes.com - alternative photography  galleries , "how-to-do", and various links.

Polaroid - Creative techniques : Image Transfers, Emulsion Lifts,
 
Polaroid transfers & emulsion transfers  instructions with a photographer's gallery.

Photographers Using Alternative  Techniques
Peter  Lau : Canadian site about Polaroid transfer, emulsion transfer, sx-70 manipulation, black and white polaroid transfer (instructions and examples).
Jack  Kozieilski: Canadian gallery of Polaroid image transfer art .
Cynthia Davis:   Polaroid SX-70 camera and Time Zero film to create painterly photographs of still life and landscapes.
Amy Elmious: Traditional photographic and polaroid transfer images of landscapes, florals, insects, nature, people, occasions, Europe, still life, and portraits.
Uliasz, Marek: Photography and Polaroid transfer art of ghost towns and lost sites of Colorado, returns to Poland, and New Mexico adobe churches.
Alternative-Photography Gallery (photographers and articles)
Photoconvergence: this site is to provide an educational resource in which students and interested individuals can come to learn more about different processes involved in the creation of photography

ROBERTO BOTTERO     POLAROID Transfers,PINHOLE Photographs and POLAROID images.

Toycamera.com This site was started as just two people with an interest in Plastic Cameras.  These funny little cameras can be used to take odd and compelling images.  The results can be surprising and unexpected.  These cheap plastic cameras  provide an outlet  for those who have a desire to create personal art or experiment with photography using simple technology and basic techniques in a crative way.


~ C ~ Canadian Images & Photographers * ~

Karsh Canadian National Archives presentation of renowned Canadian portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh.

Roloff Beny (1924-1984) This Canadian photographer achieved an international reputation for his lavishly produced photo-illustrated books. The National Archives of Canada presents his photographs of  leading figures in the worlds of dance, opera, music, literature, cinema, theatre, fashion and politics.

Canadian Portraits: a Selection of 120 Portraits of Eminent Canadians from the National Archives of Canada.

Canadianphoto.com  An online magazine and resources

PhotoLife  Excellent Canadian resource on photographers and their techniques.


Canadian National Archives  Canadian images of war, individuals, culture, aboriginal peoples, and places.




Images Canada  Images Canada provides central search access to the over 65,000 images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Through Images Canada, you can find images of the Canadian events, people, places and things that collectively are our heritage.




Image Arts - Bachelor of Fine Arts
"We live in an era when the convergence of film, photography, video, and digital technology has redefined the world of the media artist and practitioner. It's a time of exploration and, as new frontiers beckon, our pursuit of the new media leads us to places as yet unknown."

Paul J. Hoeffler is a Toronto based photographer that has been documenting the Jazz scene since the 1950s.

International photo-journalism and social issues

Exploring the Residual Landscape * social and environmental issues

PhotoSensitive:  a collective of photographers determined to explore how photography could contribute to social justice.

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography: a non-profit artist-run centre committed to the advancement of photographic art. includes
WEBlinks
is an internet project to foster and showcase photo-based work by Canadian youth.

~ D ~ Cinematography * ~
Who invented the cinema?   Usually the first public filmshow by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière on 28 December 1895 in the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris is considered the date of birth of the cinema. ****Looks at conflicting evidence


A Comprehensive Guide to Motion Pictures   an excellent site still under development - includes: The History of International Cinema
Directors, Hollywood Legends, Current Actors & Actresses


Silent Movie "Our invention can be exploited for a certain time as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that, it has no commercial future whatsoever."
- Auguste Lumière, early film maker who, with his brother Louis, organized the first public performance of motion pictures in December 1895

Silent Era A collection of news and information pertaining to silent era films.



MUG SHOTS   HOME PAGE OF FORGOTTEN SILENT COMICS


                2) view various film clips and learn about Canadian directors, animators & experimental media  ** Mediasphere


Animation Production


Animation Journal is the only peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to animation history and theory. Its content reflects the diversity of animation's production techniques and national origins.




The Art & Craft of Stop Motion Animation -What is inside an Animation Puppet -?--


Learn the secrets of Classical Animation and Cartoon Character Development from a former Disney Institute animator with almost 25 years professional experience.


Glossary  a list of terms commonly encountered in discussion of vintage animation cels and drawings. Click on the pictures to see examples and to get more information.

Animation Art find  information about the basics of Animation art, and definitions to the strange terms like "16-field cels."

With never before seen production work on some of your favorite KC cartoons including Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Santo Bugito and more!

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