The photographs produced over a period of eleven decades (1845–1965) are more than simply a fundamental part of 19th -20th century culture.

PHOTOGRAPHY’S ROAD TO MODERNISM 1880-1918

French Pictorialism and the Aesthetics of Optical Aberration

TECHNOLOGY
• Photography moves away from the elite and into mass media & culture
• Halftone
• Press Photography
• Picture Post Cards & Stereographs
• Enlargement Printing - Solar to Electrical
• Growth of the Photo industry
-- Dry Plate & Hand Cameras
-- Gelatin Roll Film & Kodak No. 1
-- “Instantaneous” Photography
-- Flash and Artificial Light
• Color experimentation: Autochromes

ART PHOTOGRAPHY
• Naturalistic Photography
• Pictorialism
• The Photo-Secession
• Anthropological Pictorialism
• Pictorialism’s Decline

SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHY
• X-Rays
• Movement
• The Futurists
• Motion Pictures