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Moholy-Nagy produces »Maleri, Fotografie, Film«

Imogen Cunningham photographs »Magnolia Blossom«

  1926

Brancusi's »Bird in Space« is deemed a work of art by the United States Court, establishing the status of Modern Art

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art begins it photography collection

  1927

General Electric invents the modern flashbulb

Bell Laboratories perform the first mechanical television transmission in US

The Jazz Singer is first successful full-length talking feature film

  1928

Eastman Kodak Company produces color film for 16mm movie cameras

Rolleiflex introduced

First issue of Vu published in Paris

  1929

Museum of Modern Art in New York opens

Alfred Stieglitz opens a gallery called An American Place

»Film and Foto« exhibition held in Stuttgart, Germany

  1930

Gaspar bleached-color process announced

Russian Association of Proletarian Photographers is formed

  1932

First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced

Philo T. Farnesworth demonstrates electronic television

Electron microscope developed in Germany

Rouben Mamoulian's film "Becky Sharp" is first 3-strip Technicolor feature

The f64 group is founded in San Francisco by Adams, Cunningham, Van Dyke, Weston, and others; the goal is to promote »straight« photography

  1933

Brassai produces »Paris de Nuit«

»Die Kamera«, a photographic fair held in Berlin, Germany

  1934

First issue of »Lilliput« is published in London

Cartier-Bresson photographs »Enfants jouant dans les ruines«

  1935

Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film

Farm Security Administration documentary project begins in the United States; its goal is to document the effects of the depression in rural areas of the U.S.; it continues until 1942

  1936

The Photo League is founded in New York City; its formation is based on the belief in the photograph as a social document; members include: Berenice Abbott, Lewis Hine, Lisette Model, Aaron Siskind, and Paul Strand

First issue of »Life« produced

Dorothea Lange photographs »Migrant Mother«

Robert Capa photographs »Moment of Death« in Spain

  1937

Museum of Modern Art in New York opens exhibition called »Photography 1839-1937«; the show is currated by Beaumont Newhall

Molholy-Nagy establishes the New Bauhaus at the Chicago Institute of Design

Museum of the City of New York launches Berenice Abbott exhibition »Changing New York«

Margaret Bourke-White photographs »You Have Seen Their Faces«

  1938

Chester Carlson invents Xerography

First issue of Paris Match published in Paris

First issue of Picture Post published in London

Walker Evans produces »American Photographs«

  1940

Ansco, Agfa, and Sakura Natural color film introduced

Harold Edgerton develops technique to use high-speed electric flash to stop action

Museum of Modern Art in New York opens a Department of Photography

Paul Strand produces »Photographs of Mexico«

  1941

Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film

First commercial television license issued in US

Agee and Evans produce »Let Us Now Praise Famous Men«

  1944

Eugene Smith joins »Life« magazine

  1945

Arthur C. Clark proposes a geosynchronous satellite

Weegee produces »Naked City«

»Paul Strand: Photographs 1915-1945« at Museum of Modern Art in New York

Lecuyer publishes »Histoire de la Photographie«

  1946

Eastman Kodak introduces Ektachrome F, processable by photographer

Cartier-Bresson retrospective at Museum of Modern Art in New York

  1947

Bell Laboratories invents the transistor

Dennis Gabor describes principles of holography

Magnum Agency founded in Paris

  1948

Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera

First 35mm Nikon camera introduced

First US cable television systems appear

Ansel Adams publishes his Zone System for tonal control through special exposure and development techniques and produces »Portfolio 1«

  1949

Beaumont Newhall publishes »The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day«

The International Museum of Photography is opened at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY




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