History of Photography with Thomas Alleman 

It's sad that the RU-vid aglorythm robs us and you the opportunity to meet other than by chance. I'm so glad I happened upon you. I really appreciate all the work you put into this video. It's a gem. Thank you!

Beautiful piece of documentation

The contention that the early photographers were creating new compositional strategies with regard to landscape and architectural images -- as well as portraiture -- fails to consider centuries of painting and drawing as sources for compositional and lighting approaches. Watkins knew how to compose a landscape because he'd been exposed to the works of artists who dealt with the same issues. Ditto for Cameron's portraiture and Atget's architectural works, although his pictures of naturally superimposed reflections may have no precedents in painting. It also seems somewhat inverted to suggest that lighting by early photographic masters is amazingly "very modern." It seems more appropriate to acknowledge that "Annie Liebowitz lighting" is fundamentally classical. As you said yourself, she and many other masters of modern photography developed their styles from nascent photographic images, as well as the works of great painters.

The comment below was made before the end where this issue was discussed to some degree during Q&A.

Is there a second part to this video ? Thanks

You missed the photography of the Civil War

11:06 gets me 😂

Nice detail and great content, but I'm going to look for something else that is complete with dates. I'm sort of picky about that stuff.