Landscape Photography

Landscape is an important thread within the history of photography. Photography focused on nature, cities, architecture, and other spatial subjects. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementLandscape
Photographers2

Overview

Photography focused on nature, cities, architecture, and other spatial subjects.

Photographers

🇫🇷FR1820–1884
Gustave Le Gray
Landscape
LandscapeInvention & Technique

Gustave Le Gray, trained first as a painter in Paris, turned to photography in the late 1840s and opened the school that helped shape figures such as Nadar.

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🇺🇸US1840–1882
Timothy O'Sullivan
War Photography
War PhotographyLandscape+1

Timothy O'Sullivan was born around 1840, most likely in Ireland, and emigrated with his family to New York as a young child.

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