1870–1890s | Photographers | History of Photography | Photo Coordinates |
1870–1890s was shaped by Industrialization, Social Reform, and Mass Photography, a context in which photographic institutions and expression changed significantly. This era page organizes photographers, movements, and historical background so readers can trace how Documentary, Japanese Photography, and Social Documentary emerged within a wider history of photography. Use it as a chronological entry point from individual photographers to related countries, visual languages, and source-backed historical context.
Charles Marville began as an illustrator and engraver before turning to photography.
Read detailsThomas Annan was commissioned by the Glasgow City Improvement Trust to photograph old closes and streets marked for clearance under nineteenth-century urban reform.
Read detailsEadweard Muybridge became famous when Leland Stanford hired him to resolve the question of whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four feet from the ground at once.
Read detailsEtienne-Jules Marey approached photography through physiology.
Read detailsTomishige Rihei (born Shinokura Rihei, 1837–1922) is one of the most significant figures in Kyushu's photographic history.
Read detailsYokoyama Matsusaburo was born in 1838 on Etorofu Island in the Kuril archipelago (present-day Russian territory), into a merchant family.
Read detailsJacob Riis emigrated from Denmark to the United States in 1870 and knew poverty first-hand before becoming a reporter.
Read detailsFrederick H. Evans was born in London in 1853.
Read detailsTomishige Tokuji is a documented but sparsely recorded figure in the history of Meiji photography.
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