Photography

In photography’s first decade two pioneering practitioners, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, collaborated on making salted paper prints – a technique that produced photographs that were as much objects as images. Their work is included in Tate Britain’s Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840–1860, the first exhibition in the UK dedicated to salt prints

Photography changed the way we look at ourselves and how we might act in front of a camera. But it also changed the way performance artists could portray and develop their work. The new Tate Modern exhibition Performing for the Camera explores the relationship between the photographic image and performance. Liz Jobey examines how artists have for more than a century documented, delighted and deceived with photography

Tate Painting and the Art of Stereoscopic Photography

The pioneering nineteenth-century Anglo-American photographer is best known for his images of animal and human subjects in motion, but was also a highly successful landscape and survey photographer, documentary artist, war correspondent and inventor. His work not only laid the foundations for the birth of the cinema, but influenced subsequent generations of artists and filmmakers.

Invented in 1850, and commonly used in the late nineteenth century, the albumen print is a type of photographic print made from paper coated with albumen (egg white)

A C-print, also known as a C-type print or Chromogenic print, is a photographic print made from a colour negative or slide

A dye destruction print (Cibachrome print, Ilfochrome print) is a print made using a photographic printing process in which colour dyes embedded in the paper are selectively bleached away (destroyed) to form a full-colour image

A Polaroid print is a positive print that is produced almost instantly shortly after exposure by a Polaroid camera

Photographic prints made by laying objects onto photographic paper and exposing it to light

Technique that involves exposing a partially developed photograph to light, before continuing processing, creating halo-like effects

Afrapix was a photographers' collective and agency founded in South Africa in 1982 which encouraged its members to use photography as activism

American social realist photography refers to photographs that documented rural poverty during America’s Great Depression of the 1930s and 1940s

The Dusseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher

Magnum Photos is a New York based photographic co-operative founded in 1947 by four photographers, including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, that aims to give photographers the freedom to record what they see without having to work to the agendas of magazines and newspapers

Group of American photographers who believed that photography was a fine art