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Who are the photo pioneers in other countries?

BradS

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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?
 
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
 
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
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Excellent! Thanks.

I'm shopping for it now.
 
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.
 
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Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Peach Robinson
Peter Emerson
Emmanuel Radnitzky
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Lazlo Maholy-Nagy
 
James Bleifus said:
Thanks for the tip, Ian.
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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
 
jnantz said:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Peach Robinson
Peter Emerson
Emmanuel Radnitzky
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Lazlo Maholy-Nagy
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The OP is inquiring on landscape photographers to my understanding.
 
AgX said:
The OP is inquiring on landscape photographers to my understanding.
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Eh, landscape may be to prescriptive. I’m mostly interested in those who went outside, travelled, explored, and communicated a sense of place.
 
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