Photography was announced to the world almost simultaneously in 1839, first in France and then a few months later in England. Accurate "likenesses" of people were available to the masses, and soon reproducible images of faraway places were intriguing to all. This course will explore the earliest image-makers Daguerre and Fox Talbot, the Civil War photographs organized by Mathew Brady, the introduction in 1888 of the Kodak by George Eastman, the critically important social documentary photography of Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York) and his successor, Lewis Hine, the Photo-Secession of Alfred Stiegltiz, the Harlem Renaissance of James VanDerZee, the precisionist f64 photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston, and a host of other important photographers who came before World War II. The class will be introduced to 19th century processes, such as the daguerreotype, tintype, and ambrotype, as well as albumen prints, cyanotypes, and more. Two field trips will take place during class, one to Photo-Antiquities on Pittsburgh's North Side, and one to Silver Eye Center for Photography on Pittsburgh's historically designated Carson Street, on the South Side.