When George Eastman’s Kodak box camera was introduced in 1888, its popularity spawned an identity crisis of sorts within the photographic community. The widespread availability and relatively low c…

Robert Demachy was the leading French proponent of Pictorialism and the director of the Photo-Club de Paris, the French parallel to the American Photo-Secession (led by Alfred Stieglitz), the Viennese Kleeblatt, and the British Brotherhood of the Linked Ring. Like his American and European counterparts, Demachy produced and promoted a type of photography that self-consciously evoked drawing and painting-part of an effort to distinguish his pictures from the products of amateur snap shooters and commercial photographers. Demachy was particularly interested in nonstandard photographic processes and is noted especially for his revival of the gum bichromate process. Here's some of his amazing work:

This is the sizeable Maloney family of Newtown, Waterford. This isn't the photo that Mr Maloney liked best of the ones taken that day, but I chose it because it's smilier (technical term). Date: Monday, 5 February 1906 NLI Ref.: P_WP_1536

Una storia della fotografia italiana attraverso la collezione dell'archivio Alinari.

An accomplished photographer by the age of eight, this Bostonian visionary invented a kaleidoscopic mirror to take ‘vortographs’, took some of the most innovative images of the early 20th century – then gave it all up to focus on being a freemason

«El cielo es la clave del paisaje».

Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 November 23, 1966) was an early 20th century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first…