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So why shouldn't it serve as the pencil of history too? If faces and flowers could inscribe themselves on the photographic plate, why not battles, ribbon- cutting ceremonies and earthquakes? By 1839, when the invention of photography was made public, a number of illustrated periodicals were already flourishing. But...
The first practical means to print photos on a newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to...
The earliest significant body of war coverage was the work of Roger Fenton, a well-to-do Englishman who left a career in law to devote himself to the camera. Fenton's scenes of the Crimean War, made in 1855, were discreet by the bloody standards of battlefield imagery to...
The American Civil War forced the curtain higher. When the fighting began in 1861, Mathew Brady was the country's best-known photographer, an early specimen of the celebrity portraitist and a frank businessman whose New York City studio was located not far from P.T. Barnum's museum. Brady kept...
Though cameras were always pulled out for calamities -- the Johnstown flood, the San Francisco earthquake -- the subtler processes of the century left their mark on the glass plates too. The growth of industry, the very geometry of the industrial landscape were news. The diagonals of an iron truss or the...