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This Wikispace is being created as a collaborative journal of Pingree's Photo history senior elective course. The outline below represents an overview of the topics that we have covered over the course of the semester. Follow any of the links to learn more! **
 * Pingree Photo History - Spring 2010

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 * The Early Photographic Process
 * The Camera Obscura, Joseph Niepce, Louis Daguerre


 * Early Portraiture
 * The Daguerreotype, Carte-de-Viste


 * The Roots of Photojournalism
 * Roger Fenton, Mathew Brady, Andrew Gardner, George Barnard, and more


 * The Conquest of Motion
 * Eadweard Muybridge & the invention of the shutter


 * New Photographic Movement
 * Photography becomes an artform. Alfred Stieglitz and Edwards Steichen.


 * Social Photography
 * Photography used as a tool to achieve social change


 * Straight Photography
 * producing photographs without manipulating the image after it has been developed.


 * Instant Photography
 * Capturing the frozen moment - photographers like Andres Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson master the "Decisive Moment"


 * Aerial Photography During WWI