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Hoofs, Claws and Antlers of the Rocky Mountains by the Camera documents a trip through the Rocky Mountains, with an emphasis on the animals encountered (and hunted) along the way. The publication provides a good example of an early use of the…

The Fight against Apartheid! is, as its cover explains, “an album of exhibition photographs showing life under apartheid and depicting the struggle of the South African people for their liberation under the banner of the African National…

The practice known as spirit photography pushes the limits of what we consider photographic by seeking to represent the spiritual, rather than the physical and visible, on the photographic plate. The practice of spirit photography also points towards…

As a founding member of Group f/64, Ansel Adams—along with other members of the California-based group—used the camera’s smallest aperture (known as f/64) in order to create photographs with greater depth of field, keeping as much of the image…

This album of photographs from the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Company likely dates from between 1905 (when the Alberta Brewery, founded in 1901, was renamed the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Co) and 1918 (when the name was changed to Lethbridge…

Kodachrome was one of the first widely-used colour films, introduced by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1935. Here, Kodachrome film was used to create colourful pictures of the Canadian Rockies. Printed as postcards, the pictures were sold as souvenirs…

This book's title and cover image suggest that the photographs found within conform to the conventions of the picturesque—though the photographs that follow do not all fit easily within this aesthetic category. The photographer who took these…

Charles Darwin is recognized as one of the early adopters of photography in scientific illustration, and much has been written about his use of photographs in the 1872 publication Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.The photographs included…

Papillons Européens: Nocturnes, Crépusculaires, et Diurnes demonstrates a method of recording specimens that predates photography: the nature print. With a nature print, the specimen itself is used to make an impression so that, as with…

Miscellaneous Objects as Seen With and Without the Microscope predates the introduction of photography. The visual notes it contains depend entirely on the artist's ability to not only record their observations, but to also remember what was seen…