"Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 – disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations,...
Every week a female portraitThe third of our series: Self-Portrait (as “New Woman”), 1896 by Frances Benjamin Johnston.Frances Benjamin Johnston (January 15, 1864 — May 16, 1952) was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost...
View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833) is the oldest surviving photograph (circa 1826). The "window view is considered the oldest photograph that is known to have been formed in the camera in the world." (widewalls.ch) The exposure...