Hist of photography in 3 words

Too Brief, Overly Simplified History of Photography:

*Pictorialist
*Modernist
*Post-Modernist

Simplistic History of photographic media:

Wet Plate:************************-----------------------------------------
Dry Plate: ..............**********************************---------------
Rollfilm/Cutfilm: ......................................**************************
Silicon: ...............................................................................----*******

(where: <*>=mainstream use; <->=specialist use)

Did you notice that the history of photography is not the same thing as the history of photographic equipment, any more than a discussion of the history of painting probably has little to do with red sable brushes and pre-stretched canvas?
 
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