The History of Pinhole Photography
• Sir David Brewster, a Scottish scientist, was one of the first to
make pinhole photographs, in the 1850s. He also coined the
very word "pinhole”.
• By the late 1880s the Impressionist movement in painting was
a certain influence on photography. Different schools or
tendencies developed in photography.
• The "old school" believed in sharp focus and good lenses; the
"new school", the "pictorialists",
tried to achieve the atmospheric
qualities of paintings. Some of the
pictorialists experimented with
pinhole photography.
"Expeditions" , Ruth Thorne-Thomsen,
1979