Thanks to all of you that have visited and supported the previous photography exhibitions presented this year in Ggalleries. The first exhibition was dedicated to the magnificent Pearls and the last one to the spectacular color Red.
This is the last exhibition for 2023 and I’m so excited to design and curate a Black and White photography exhibition for my blog. In this opportunity I have added a brief history of the Black and White photography to decorate the delightful collection of photos received.
I’ve asked eight stunning Seriously Sexy friends and content creators to collaborate with B&W photos for this exhibition and the final result was AMAZING, THEY LOOK LIKE PROFESSIONALS!.
B&W
the extraordinary
simplicity
There’s a supreme kind of elegance in Black dresses and White pearls in shirts and suits evoking imagination in the way the light of angels and the dark of devils play together
– Melody @StarshinePoetry , X
In 500B.C., the philosopher Aristotle (384-322 b.c.) discovered that by passing sunlight through a pinhole, he could create a reversed image of the Sun on the ground. He used this device as a means for viewing an eclipse without having to stare directly into the Sun. Aristotle’s experiments went no further. He could not explain why the image was created, or why it was in reverse. In 1035 an Egyptian scientist named Ibn al-Haitham (965-1039) continued Aristotle’s work, by first devoting himself to the understanding of what makes up light. He had a theory that light traveled in straight lines, called rays, and set out to prove his theory by arranging a line of candles on a table, lighting them, then standing behind a screen that separated him from the candles’ light.
Photos by Ellie
In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore succeeded in recording his surroundings on a tin plate coated with asphalt. This technique, known as heliography, is the first photographic one ever. It produced the first photographic image entitled View from the Window at Le Gras, marking the inception of a medium that would dramatically impact the world at large.
Photos by Alicia, My Alter Ego
A dozen years later, another Frenchman, Louis Daguerre, made another epic intervention when he conceived the ‘Daguerreotype’. His eponymous process involved the use of polished silver-plated copper which was treated to make its surface light-sensitive and then exposed in a camera for as long as was necessary.
Photos by Mrs. Betty Backster
As innovations were made in photography, the daguerreotype gave way to the Calotype which was pioneered by British innovator, William Fox Talbot. Talbot’s advances rapidly decreased the exposure time further allowing the first photographs of the human subjects to be completed. Calotypes could also be reproduced positive prints that established the procedures for the future of photography.
Photos by Delilah
In 1871, English photographer Richard Leach Maddox invented the dry-plate (also known as the gelatin process). Up until that point, exposed plates needed to remain wet in order to be processed, and his invention lent itself to a significantly easier and more practical experience.
Photos by Mary
In the early 1900s, black and white photography became the primary form of photography for both professional and amateur photographers. This was due to the fact that color photography was very expensive and difficult to process.
Photos by Diotima
In 1888, the first Kodak camera was produced, which contained a 20-foot roll of paper that could take 100 circular images. An improved Kodak camera, using rolls of negative film instead of paper, hit the amateur market in 1889. George Eastman, a young hobbyist photographer (and bank clerk) from Rochester, New York, developed a machine for producing the plates, that they became available commercially
Photos by Miss Lia Lana
In 1925, Oskar Barnack developed the now-iconic Leica. The first camera to use 35mm film (which had been invented by Thomas Edison some thirty years earlier) was significantly more lightweight compact than the box cameras that dominated the market at the time and thus opened up a world of photographic possibilities.
Photos by Nylon Rider
Curated and Designed by Gentfidelity
Please feel free to share you own B&W photos to celebrate together The Extraordinary Simplicity of the B&W Photography!!
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