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| Anonymous photographer Colosseum, Rome ca. 1860 albumen print National Galleries of Scotland |
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| William Donaldson Clark Greyfriars Churchyard, with Edinburgh Castle in the distance ca. 1860-70 albumen print National Galleries of Scotland |
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| John Wesley Livingstone Bronze bust by Lord Ronald Gower of Marie Antoinette on her way to execution 1878 print from glass plate negative (inventory photograph) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Fratelli Alinari Portrait of unknown man with child ca. 1865 carte-de-visite photograph National Galleries of Scotland |
"To try to capture fleeting mirror images is not just an impossible undertaking, as has been established after thorough German investigation; the very wish to do such a thing is blasphemous. Man is made in the image of God, and God's image cannot be captured by any machine of human devising. The utmost the artist may venture, borne on the wings of divine inspiration, is to reproduce man's God-given features without the help of any machine, in the moment of highest dedication, at the higher bidding of his genius."
– anonymous journalist in the Leipziger Stadtanzeiger, quoted by Walter Benjamin in Little History of Photography (1931), translated by Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter (2008)
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| John Riddy London (Gillender Street 3) 1997 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Guy Bourdin Maison de Paris ca. 1950-60 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Lynne Cohen Banquet Room 1975 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Lynne Cohen University Library 1980 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Iwao Yamawaki Cafeteria after lunch, Bauhaus, Dessau ca. 1930-32 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
"For some years now the glory of our age has been a machine which daily amazes the mind and startles the eye. Before another century is out, this machine will be the brush, the palette, the colors, the craft, the experience, the patience, the dexterity, the sureness of touch, the atmosphere, the luster, the exemplar, the perfection, the very essence of painting."
– Antoine Wiertz (1855), quoted by Walter Benjamin in Little History of Photography (1931), translated by Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter (2008)
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| H.G. Smith Portrait of Ignaz Gaugengigl 1891 photogravure (published in Sun and Shade) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Errol Sawyer Untitled, London 1997 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Marketa Luskacova People in Knave of Clubs pub, Club Row, London 1976 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Jane Wilson and Louis Wilson Urville 2006 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| John Stezaker Mask XIII 2006 collage (photo-postcard and vintage photo) Tate Gallery |