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  2. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement . [ s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [ s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.

  3. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. There are no artifacts or descriptions that indicate any attempt to capture images with light sensitive materials prior to the ...

  4. 100 Photographs that Changed the World - Wikipedia

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    Gallery. Some of the photos are depicted below. Bloody Saturday – Battle of Shanghai. Cavalry camp near Balaklava – Crimean War. The Valley of the Shadow of Death – Siege of Sevastopol, Crimean War. X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen. View from the Window at Le Gras. The Horse in Motion. Migrant Mother.

  5. Timeline of first images of Earth from space - Wikipedia

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    ATS-3. First full-disk "true color" [ 41] picture of the Earth; [ 42] subsequently used on the cover of the first Whole Earth Catalog. [ 43][ 42] December 21, 1968. Apollo 8. First full-disk image of Earth from space taken by a person, probably by astronaut William Anders. [ 44] December 24, 1968.

  6. Wikipedia : Featured pictures/History/World War II

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    Attack on USS Franklin, by Albert Bullock. Turret lathe operator at United States home front during World War II, by Howard R. Hollem. Inmates of Ebensee concentration camp after their liberation, by Arnold E. Samuelson. Mushroom cloud from the atomic explosion over Nagasaki, by Charles Levy. USS Bunker Hill after being hit by two Kamikazes, by ...

  7. Photograph - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...

  8. Wikipedia : Featured pictures/History/World War I

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    SM U-21 sinking the Linda Blanche, by Willy Stöwer. Britain Needs You At Once at History of the United Kingdom during the First World War, unknown artist (restored by Adam Cuerden ) A Hannover CL.III shot down on 4 October 1918, by J. E. Gibbon (restored by Keraunoscopia )

  9. In a world of moving pictures, photographs capture indelible ...

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    July 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM. The photograph of a bloodied Donald Trump with his fist in the air and an American flag looming in the background is quickly emerging as the pivotal image of Saturday's ...