Monthly Archives: February 2022

Five Facets of Photography – Photographs that Changed the World: Rosalind Franklin Photo 51

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Brian

In May 1952 Rosalind Franklin photographed her fifty-first X-ray diffraction pattern of deoxyribosenucleic acid, or DNA.  It revealed information about DNA´s three-dimensional structure by displaying the way a beam of X-rays scattered off a pure fibre of DNA. Maurice Wilkins, … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Photographs that Changed the World: Rontgen’s X-Ray

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Brian

A medical X-ray photograph of Anna Bertha Röntgen hand made by her husband Wilhelm in 1895. The discovery of x-rays won Wilhelm the first Nobel Prize ever granted for physics in 1901. His breakthrough quickly went into use around the world, … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: Conceptual photography

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Brian

Conceptual Photography is often considered to derive from Conceptual Art of the late 1960s, but it has been around longer than that.  It is photography that is staged or created to represent an idea; it is not primarily intended to depict and … Continue reading →

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Photography Milestones

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Brian

Nicephore Niepce created the first known photograph on 1826-7.  Kodak marketed the Kodak 1 camera, the first mass produced snap shot camera 62 years later in 1888.  Russel Kirsch made the first scanned photographic image in 1957.  Apple launched the … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: The Decisive Moment

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Brian

The course I’m running for the Cambridge U3A, Five Facets of Photography, starts this week with ‘Ideas that Changed Photography’.  This post comes from that module.  Posts over the next five weeks will include material from subsequent modules. Henri Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading →

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What’s the Point?

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Brian

I’m reading The Marches, Rory Stewart’s book of Border walks.  In the second part he sets out to walk from Cragg in Cumbria to Broich in Perthshire.  He is joined by Cumbrian painter Julian Cooper in the Lake District and … Continue reading →

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Traces of Erewhon 10

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Brian
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Photography in Fiction: My Parents’ Darkroom

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Brian

The darkroom in the title of Reinhard Tenberg’s novel is a metaphorical one.  It is the mystery surrounding the activities of the parents of the narrator Jonas: his mother’s leading role in the BdM (Bund deutscher Madel – League of … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: New Documents

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Brian

The New Documents exhibition at MOMA in 1967, small, framed black-and-white pictures by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, was modest by today’s standards.  The work had a casual, offhand quality and the subject matter was apparently random and … Continue reading →

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‘As Seen…’ Robb Appleton

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Brian

Among all the dross that floods Facebook, the cats, dogs and virtue signalling, Robb Appleton’s photographs from observations on his daily walks are rare moments of sanity and delight.  He’s now brought some thirty of his pictures together in a … Continue reading →

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douce hair salon, Eddington

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Brian

The square at Eddington awaits shops and services to bring it to life – Sainsbury’s and Argos are a start, but could be anywhere.  The douce hair salon in a gleaming Airstream caravan is a quirky start. Arthur Eddington said, … Continue reading →

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Traces of Erewhon 9

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Brian
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