Keep reading to see the answers to these questions – they all derive from facts that appear in A Brief History of Photography by David S Young. On sale now from all good bookstores and online ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The book began as an appendix to another book, which was never written. Back in 2004 I thought that book should have a brief (three- or four-page) appendix on the history of photography, working on ...

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The first woman to take a photograph was Constance Talbot, in 1839. She was the wife of William Henry Fox Talbot, a pioneer of photography. The single-lens reflex camera was patented in 1861 by Thomas ...