Who are the photo pioneers in other countries?

BradS · Mar 8, 2020

Maybe the USofA is unique in as much as the country was expanding and exploring the west at roughly the same time as the dawn of Photography but surely other photographers explored their countries at the time too... Here in the US, we have Carelton Watkins, William Henry Jackson and Timmothy O'Sullivan for example...

Who are the pioneers of landscape photography in other countries?

BainDarret · Mar 8, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bourne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fenton#Post_Crimea

Ian Grant · Mar 8, 2020

Peter Turner wrote a "History of Photography" to give a better balanced approach compared to Beaumont Newhall's "History of Photography" which had a very US bias. It's worth reading.

Ian

BradS · Mar 8, 2020

Ian Grant said:
Peter Turner wrote a "History of Photography" to give a better balanced approach compared to Beaumont Newhall's "History of Photography" which had a very US bias. It's worth reading.

Ian

Excellent! Thanks.

I'm shopping for it now.

BradS · Mar 8, 2020

BainDarret said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bourne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fenton#Post_Crimea

Interesting...thanks.

jay moussy · Mar 8, 2020

I found a "retired" book at the library, "la Riviera de Charles Negre, 1852-1863" (his native land), and the intro paints him as dropping out of painting art school and getting into photo work around 1850.

The book is beautiful, great compositions.
These are the very first Riviera pictures.

removed account4 · Mar 8, 2020

Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Peach Robinson
Peter Emerson
Emmanuel Radnitzky
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Lazlo Maholy-Nagy

Alan Johnson · Mar 8, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Horsley_Hinton
He was also a leading light in thecameraclub of London which is still going strong.

awty · Mar 8, 2020

Charles Bayliss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bayliss

awty · Mar 8, 2020

Frank Hurley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hurley

awty · Mar 8, 2020

Fred Kruger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Kruger

James Bleifus · Mar 8, 2020

Ian Grant said:
Peter Turner wrote a "History of Photography" to give a better balanced approach compared to Beaumont Newhall's "History of Photography" which had a very US bias. It's worth reading.

Ian

Thanks for the tip, Ian.

Ian Grant · Mar 9, 2020

James Bleifus said:
Thanks for the tip, Ian.

It's worth remembering that the 1989 big Yale "Art of Photography" exhibition Houston, Canberra, & London, to celebrate 150 years of Photography did not include any work by Ansel Adams. This was slightly controversial at the time but the curators pointed out that he was merely walking in the foot prints of the early Topographic movement who'd documented the opening up of the American West.

Of course we can all have different view points.

Ian

AgX · Mar 9, 2020

jnantz said:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Peach Robinson
Peter Emerson
Emmanuel Radnitzky
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Lazlo Maholy-Nagy

The OP is inquiring on landscape photographers to my understanding.

bernard_L · Mar 9, 2020

Maxime Du Camp. Egypt, 1849-1850 (with G. Flaubert)
The pictures:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b77021632/
An account of the travel
https://egyptophile.blogspot.com/2015/02/maxime-du-camp-en-egypte-le-choix-des.html?q=maxime

BradS · Mar 9, 2020

AgX said:
The OP is inquiring on landscape photographers to my understanding.

Eh, landscape may be to prescriptive. I’m mostly interested in those who went outside, travelled, explored, and communicated a sense of place.

revdoc · Mar 10, 2020

Another Australian example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Cazneaux

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