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 8 The Inventors
7.00 26 minutes 1839 marked the "official" birth of photography. Some seek to reduce the invention of photography to an obstacle course from which the shrewd Daguerre emerged triumphant, once the good-natured Niepce had abandoned his pursuit, and thanks to the slowness of the perfectionist Talbot and the discreet Bayard. Photography, which featured myriad technical and artistic possibilities, was multi-faceted and progressive. It revolutionised our perspective and transformed our relationship to reality.
