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“The stories behind 10 of the world's earliest known photographs”

(Written by Oscar Holland, CNN)

“As early cameras began spreading out from Europe in the middle of the 19th century, photography became an increasingly powerful medium for obtaining and disseminating information about the wider world.

People and places that had previously only been captured through art or in written accounts could suddenly be depicted with unprecedented accuracy. With this new medium, local administrators and commercial photography studios, in cities from Hong Kong to Calcutta, helped build a richer visual history of life in the 1800s.

Now, a new exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi has brought together 250 of the earliest known photographs from the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the oldest of which dates back to 1842. Titled "Photographs: An Early Album of the World," it's the first dedicated photography show to be held at the Emirati outpost of the famous French museum. (...)” (Lido em: CNN 2019-08-15)

“From the beginning of my participation in photography I have alwys felt tha it was a form of Art.

I have believed that we must be true to our medium. That we must know where we have been and where we are going in order to make something original out of our art.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, wheter realistic or abstract, has always dealt with either a form of religion or imagination. In this exhibition I deal mainly with the “surreal”, which I feel is the special province of photography.”        RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD         (Brooks Johnson, Photography Speaks – 150 Photographers on their Art, Apperture Foundation / Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 2004)

"Fotografar reis, mendigos e cavalos da mesma maneira"

"Hoje é sábado e Dia Mundial da Fotografia - dois bons pretextos para ir até à Golegã visitar algo raro em todos o mundo - um estúdio do século XIX. Por trás dele está um latifundiário e fotógrafo amador que ganhou fama internacional mas nunca quis sair da terra onde nasceu. Chamava-se Carlos Relvas. (...)" (Lido em: Publico, 2017-08-19)