Museum of Nonhuman Photography
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Shells and Fossils, 1839. Public domain.
Enhanced version of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, 1826 or 1827. Public Domain.
William Henry Fox Talbot, Lace from The Pencil of Nature, 1845. Public Domain.
William Henry Fox Talbot, Window in the South Gallery of Lacock Abbey made from the oldest photographic negative in existence, 1835. Public Domain.
Roger Fenton, Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855. Getty Open Content.
Bird’s eye view from Dr. Julius Neubronner’s miniature pigeon camera, with the pigeon’s wing tips visible on the edges of the top image, ca. 1908. Public Domain.
Véronique Ducharme, Encounters, 2012-2013.
The Pale Blue Dot, taken by the Voyager 1 space probe at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan, 1990, courtesy of NASA. Public Domain.
Earthrise (rotated), taken during the Apollo 8 mission, 1968, courtesy of NASA. Public domain.
Lindsay Seers, Optogram (mouth camera), 2010.
The Blue Marble, taken during the Apollo 17 mission, 1972, courtesy of NASA. Public domain.
Taurus Molecular Cloud, ESO, 2012, CC-BY.
Penelope Umbrico, Suns from Flickr, 2006-, screengrab by Joanna Zylinska, 2015. License: fair use.
Juliet Ferguson, Stolen Images, 2011.
Portable reflex camera obscura, c. 1800, in the Kodak Gallery at the National Media A Museum. Photo by Joanna Zylinska, 2016.
Ominous-looking sign (“Closed”) in the Kodak Gallery at the National Media Museum, featuring various iterations of the Kodak Brownie. Photos by Joanna Zylinska, 2016.
Alexa Horochowski, from Club Disminución, 2014.
Tong Lam, An outdated and abandoned theme park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 2013.
![Dennis Skley, Time isn`t passing ... [Urban Explorer], 2012. Flickr, License: CC BY-ND 2.0.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59528a942cba5eed66d26d1a/1505579983792-AU5LQ1BCGF7QRA3SAIS7/image-asset.jpeg)
Dennis Skley, Time isn`t passing ... [Urban Explorer], 2012. Flickr, License: CC BY-ND 2.0.
Shane Gorski, Wasteland, from the Detroit Book Depository Set, 2008, Flickr, License: CC BY-ND 2.0.
Joanna Zylinska, still from Exit Man, 2017.
Joanna Zylinska, still from Exit Man, 2017.
Unexplained, geometric linear patterns associated with major temples across northwest Cambodia. Imagery consists of airborne laser scanning-derived bare earth models, overlain by a semi-transparent hillshade model, CC BY 4.0.
The Ostrich, Fractal Landscape, 2002. A fractal landscape randomly generated with a custom programmed algorithm and rendered using Terragen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
![mikrosopht [deleted], Glitch 127, 2007. Glitch image of the body, created by utilising a temporary browser image caching error. Source: Flickr. Licence: CC BY 2.0.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59528a942cba5eed66d26d1a/1505580800659-NP2O6DUG9YGOC5R85KL5/61.png)
mikrosopht [deleted], Glitch 127, 2007. Glitch image of the body, created by utilising a temporary browser image caching error. Source: Flickr. Licence: CC BY 2.0.
Bonamy Devas, from Photographic Tai Chi, 2015.
Learn & Explore
Read
William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature
Constructivism: A Monoskop resource
Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life
Nathaniel Rich, “The Mammoth Cometh”
Etienne Turpin (ed.), Architecture in the Anthropocene
Joanna Zylinska, Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
Adrian Searle, “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Art for the End of the World”
Hyperallergic, "The Camera as an Afterthought: Defining Post-Photography"
See
The Family of Man: photography that united the planet
Mariano Sardon, 200 Gazes Looking Around Them
Jana Sterbak, Waiting for High Water
Penelope Umbrico, Suns from Sunsets from Flickr
IOCOSE, Drone Selfies
Roberto Huarcaya, Amazograms
The Anthropocene on a big photo-screen: Edward Burtynsky & Andreas Gursky
Nadav Kander, Dust
Tong Lam, Unreal Estate
Alexa Horochowski, Club Disminución
Trevor Paglen, The Last Pictures
Science and Media Museum in Bradford, England (originally National Museum of Photography, Film and Television; then National Media Museum)