Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Surrealist Photography
- Season 1 The Primitives of Photography, 1850-1860
- Season 1 The New German Objectivity
- Season 1 Staged Photography
- Season 1 Pictorialism
- Season 1 New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s
- Season 1 Photographing Intimacy
- Season 1 The Inventors
- Season 1 Found Images
- Season 1 Press Usage
- Season 1 Conceptual Photography
- Season 1 After the Photo
Photo: A History from Behind the Lens - Season 1 Episode 2 The Primitives of Photography, 1850-1860
7.00 26 minutes In the middle of the 19th century, 25 years after its invention, photography is still considered as a simple scientific curiosity. But between 1850 and 1860 a dozen of photographers, in France and in England, will get in a struggle to get photography acknowledged as an art. It will be the decade of Nadar, Le Gray, Baldus, Robison, Rejlander, Fenton. They will be the first ones to explore all posibilities of photographical creation and of its relations to reality.
