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Max Planck introduces the Quantum Theory in Physics

First mass-marketed camera, The Brownie

The first successful American feature film debuts: »The Great Train Robbery«

In London, The Royal Photographic Society shows exhibition called »The New School of American Photograph«; the exhibition travels to Paris in 1901

  1902

Otto von Bronk applies for German patent on color television

  1903

»Camera Work«, an art photography journal is founded in the United States by Alfred Stieglitz

»National Geographic« magazine establishes the policy to portray people in their natural attire, or lack of it; they publish their first photograph with exposed female breasts

  1904

The Lumiere brothers announce the production of Autochrome plates for making camera images in full color

Lewis Hine begins his career as a social photographer in New York City

  1905

Alfred Stieglitz opens The Little Galleries of the Photo Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York City; the gallery is often referred to simply as »291«

  1906

Panchromatic plates marketed by Wratten and Wainright in England

Off-set lithography invented

  1907

Lumière Brother's autochrome color process marketed

Alfred Korn announces Fac-Simile telegraphy

Edward S. Curtis begins publication of a 20-volume work »The North American Indian«

Alfred Stieglitz photographs »The Steerage«

  1908

Gabriel Lippmann wins a Nobel Prize for his method of reproducing color by photography

  1910

The Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY shows the International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography

  1911

In Italy, The Bragaglia brothers begin experiments in photodynamism

Arnold Genthe produces the first known autochromes (color photographs) of a rainbow and a sunset

  1913

Eastman Kodak Company establishes first industrial photographic research laboratory

  1914

First 35mm still cameras developed

De Meyer illustrates the Ballets Russes in »Sur le Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un Faune«

Clarence White School of Photography opens in New York

Charles Chaplin, D.W. Griffiths, and Mack Sennett become active in the United States film industry

  1915

Modernist ideas supplant soft-focus pictorialism in the United States; key photographers include: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Paul Strand

  1916

Gallery 291 exhibits photographs of Paul Strand

  1918

Photographers Man Ray in Paris and Christian Schad in Germany begin producing cameraless images (photograms) with the manipulation of light and chemicals

  1920

Photographers begin to experiment with photocollage and photomontage as an escape from the literalness of typical photographic processes

The Constructivist and Bauhaus movements begin Photographers such as Lazslo

Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Rodchenko introduce new ways of recording actuality by stressing unusual angles and close-ups

  1920-21

Ernst Belin works on and introduces wireless transmission of photographs

  1921

The first issue of Swiss magazine »Camera« is published

  1923

Vladimir Zworykin patents television picture tube

First radio network established by AT&T

First wirephoto transmission

Edward Steichen is appointed as Conde Nast's chief photographer for »Vogue« and »Vanity Fair« magazines

  1924

Introduction of small-plate Ermanox and Leica 35mm cameras make instantaneous photography possible in available light

Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes patent two-color photographic film




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