He also included a moon in the background. Steichen added the black and white photo with the painted elements in the form of a bluish tone. One fascinating thing to note about his artwork was that it isn’t a straight-up photograph but rather a juxtaposition of photo and painting techniques.
However, it wasn’t until 1904 that landscape photography made its mark with the help of Edward Steichen and his photograph called Moonlight: The Pond. Photography certainly proved popular with users back then, and a slew of images and portraits were taken and developed during the Victoria era. College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology, University of Minnesota (Public Domain) Landscape photography makes a mark Moss, Coordinator of Visual Resources and Digital Content Library. This process took much longer than taking a photo.īy Joseph Nicéphore Niépce – Rebecca A. It was quite revolutionary back then because this allowed people a much faster way of rendering reality into a two-dimensional format that they were previously only able to do by way of painting. A few years later, around 1835, an English scientist named Henry Fox Talbot entered the scene and introduced innovations in photography. It was noted this first exposure took him a mere 8 hours, so perhaps it made sense for him to choose a still subject. It was an urban landscape photo taken by a French inventor by the name of Nicephore Niepce. According to records, the earliest known evidence of a landscape photograph was taken between the years of 18. It’s a bit harder to pinpoint when landscape photography began. Can you imagine how challenging wildlife photography would have been back then? So, there was no danger of the subject moving about as they waited for photographs to be exposed. When photography technology first emerged in the 19th century, early photographers seemed to decide that landscapes made the perfect subject because they were static. This is proven by the number of landscape paintings that already existed before the earliest camera equipment was even conceived. People have been fascinated by landscapes long before photography technology came to be. By Ansel Adams – This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, catalogued under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 519914.
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