PHOTOPEDIA
PHOTOGRAPHY dictionary
VII Photo Agency is a photo agency founded in 2001 by seven photographers. Since 2023 it has been part of The VII Foundation, a non-profit organisation for journalism and education.
The Pencil of Nature is a book by William Henry Fox Talbot, illustrated with photographs.
A single-use camera, also called a disposable camera, is a simple camera sold with film inside.
The three-colour method makes a colour image from three black-and-white photographs taken through red, green and blue filters.
A gelatin dry plate is a glass photographic plate with a light-sensitive layer in gelatin.
Aerial photography is photography taken from the air, from a balloon, a plane or a drone.
Fashion photography is photography of clothes and accessories, usually for magazines and advertising.
The Pictures Generation is a name for American artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s who worked with images taken from films, advertising and magazines.
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of Black art, music, writing and thought in Harlem, a neighbourhood of New York, in the 1920s and 1930s. One photographer recorded the life of this community more fully than anyone else: James VanDerZee.
The New York School is a name for a loose group of photographers who worked on the streets of New York from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. They did not form a club or sign a manifesto.
Photography of natural or man-made outdoor spaces, such as mountains, coasts, forests, fields and cities. It often aims to show the beauty or character of a place.
Photography made mainly as artistic expression, to be shown in galleries, museums and books, rather than for commercial or news purposes.