Refers to images usually created by amateur or 'unknown' photographers and often depicts family or people in everyday and domestic situations. Their frequent banality, humour or photographic [..]

is one of the newest types of art

Introduced originally for motion picture use, 35mm film's format, frame and sprockets were standardized in 1909. It was adopted for still picture use and became the most popular film format produ [..]

The use of albumen derived from egg whites was first used in 1848 for dry plates, before being superseded by the wet-collodion process from 1851. Albumen had far greater success for coating on to pape [..]

The opening through which light passes to expose sensitized material or a sensor. It is usually located behind or within a lens mount, originally as removable 'stops' and later as an iris di [..]

A metering system in the camera that allows the photographer to choose the aperture while the camera selects the shutter speed.

See: "Fine Art

". For a chronological guide, see: History of Art

The ratio of an image's height to its width.

Patented in 1904 by Auguste and Louis Lumiere and manufactured from 1907, the Autochrome process was the first practical system of colour photography using dyed starch grains and a panchromatic emulsi [..]