Photojournalism
Photojournalism emerged as a distinctive form of photography in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The term denoted picture making that was spontaneous, topical and rapid.
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Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
In 2011, Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography highlighted the work of 17 South African photographers
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The conservation of Roger Fenton's album of Crimean photographs
Given the display requirements and the handling demands on the fragile support paper of the Fenton Album, one possibility was to use a series of 'fascicules' which allows t…
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Alfred Stieglitz, photographer
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a pioneer of modern photography. A photographer, publisher, writer and gallery owner, he played a key role in the promotion and exploration…
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The photography of Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles
Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (born Rotterdam 1871, died Hastings 1956) was a pioneering photographic journalist who published his work in the new illustrated magazines of the la…
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Contemporary documentary photographers
Contemporary documentary photography is not a unified form but neither is it a defunct or endangered area of photographic practice. It is simply that its contexts, visual s…
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