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. Steichen Nickolas Muray New Realism List of Major Collections of Work Glossary of Photographic Terms COPYRIGHT NOTICE - WARNING This web site comprises and contains copyright materials. You may not distribute, copy, publish or use the images or any part of the images in any way whatsoever. You may not alter, manipulate, add to or delete an image or any part of an image. Copyright for all the images remains with the Royal Photographic Society and its contributors.

. As a synonym for "quotation" or "excerpt," it refers to the cropping and editing integral to photographic creation. When referring to movement or transition, as in "a passage overseas," the term describes a frequent subject--exemplified in photographs such as The Steerage (1907) by Alfred Stieglitz--and an ongoing romance with travel that spurred the growth of photography and continues to drive a market for images of distant locales. Finally, as reminders of mortality and disappearance, phrases such as "the passage of time" suggest the photographic process itself, which transforms present moments into mementos of the past. Included will be 19th-century movement studies by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey; these works will be echoed in NASA's large, color images of astronauts venturing through outer space.

A Visual Archaeology Photography, thanks to the relative speed of its operation and naturalistic aspect, makes it possible to create a museum of the world. In 1841, the Ethnological Society of Paris was established, to create a "photographic museum" of the human races. Thus, a racist vision of the world can be found in the ethnographic works of the time, these images are some of the first ever travel photographs (the legacy of fortunate amateurs). When he announced the invention of photography, in 1839, Arago (a French academic) underlined the interest it would have for the field of archaeology. Indeed, the daguerreotype (an invention of the Frenchmen, Niepce and Daguerre, which created a unique image on silver plated metal plate) was used on excavation sites from 1840. . He captured not only the immediacy of war, the aftermath of battle, and strategic military positions, but also the sumptuous new Summer Palace (seen by few Chinese and even fewer foreigners) before its destruction by the British. His photographic record of the Second Opium War consisted of approximately one hundred images, including a number of panoramic views, which survive in the form of private albums originally compiled by British officers as a record of their victorious campaign. One such album, now in the collection of Jane and Michael Wilson, is presented here. In addition to providing a strikingly beautiful glimpse of nineteenth-century China, these images also reveal how photography functioned as an integral component of British imperialism by shaping perceptions about a distant country and its culture.
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