April 14: Wikipedia – On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardle Skip to content On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardle Discover photography now, through its past. Click on any date to access a long read posted that day. Toggle Sidebar 14/04/2019 02/10/2019 April 14: Wikipedia On April 14, 2007, I contributed my first article, one of 130 since then, to Wikipedia. It was on Ed van der Elsken, one of my favourite photographers. A bio on Van der Elsken had existed since 2002 on the Dutch language site, but I was surprised to find there was no article on him in the Encyclopaedia in English, so felt I had to do something about it. A daunting experience at first, editing in Wikipedia is something best first attempted by doing some small edits on existing articles; something as simple as correcting spelling or grammar to start to see how it all works. That was something I started doing in 2006, making 10,000 edits since then, many of them being major additions to a page. Then you can move on to your area of interest and expertise and thus make significant contributions to world knowledge, since Wikipedia is the place we all go first when we want to know something. By way of a personal celebration of this work—and it does involve a considerable research effort—I include links below to articles I’ve created so far; first, so that I can look back on an achievement, and secondly, because if you read On This Date In Photography, the links in the list below might lead you somewhere that interests you. Much of my motivation has been to discover more about The Family of Man (1955), an exhibition and publication that had huge influence on me as a photographer and researcher, and which holds the record for the biggest audience for a photography show, estimated at 9 million and rising, and for the longest-running, because it is on permanent show in Luxembourg. So for that reason, I had a mission, now completed as far as I am able, to add articles on, or missing information on, any of the 273 photographers whom Edward Steichen selected for that groundbreaking show. I am curious to understand the life work of those contributors and how being in The Family of Man contributed to their careers, and to comprehend the post-war society in which I grew up and why there has been such a shift away from the humanist perspective that the show represented, back toward the anti-human right-wing world-view that is beginning to dominate today. I firmly believe its photographic archive can provide insights into those puzzles. The writing of an entry for Wikipedia is quite different from that which I do here; everything must be referenced and you know it will be checked and revised by other editors, perhaps ultimately to the point that little you have written remains; it’s an evolutionary process in which the fittest words and facts survive. Here, I can write what I like, how I like, and I rarely bother with formal referencing, employing links instead, since I write for those with interests in common with mine. So here’s the list; may one of these links spark your curiosity! Aaron Scharf Abigail Solomon-Godeau Alan McLeod McCulloch Alexander Uzylan Alfred Statler Alice Lex-Nerlinger ‎ Alice Marian Ellen Bale Art Almanac Art Monthly Australasia Arthur Lavine Arthur Witman Australian National Travel Association Bill Rauhause Bob Schwalberg Bradley Smith (photographer) Bronwyn Kidd Brummels Gallery Camera Craft Camera Owner Camera Press Camerawork (magazine) Carl Perutz Carmel Vitullo Carmen Tessier Caroline Hebbe Carter Jones Cas Oorthuys Castel Felice Charles Leirens Charles Trieschmann Christine Abrahams Colin Jones Constantin Joffé Daniel J. Ransohoff David Myers DPICT Dmitri Kessel Don Ornitz Ed Feingersh Ed van der Elsken Edward Wallowitch Eiju Otaki Emil Obrovsky Erich Andres Ernst Brunner European Photography Ewing Krainin Femina magazine François Tuefferd Frères Séeberger ‎ Fritz Neugass George W. G. Allen Georges Mora Gita Lenz Gitel Steed Gottfried Jäger Gottfried Rainer Grace M. Mayer Gustavo Thorlichen Harry Lapow Henri Leighton Henri Mallard Herman Kreider Hermann Claasen Hideo Haga Howard Sochurek Humanist photography Ian Smith Ike Vern Jack Cato Jacob Lofman Jakob Tuggener Jasper Wood Jennie Boddington John Bertolino Karl W. Gullers Kim Timby Kurt Severin Laurence Le Guay Le Groupe des XV Leonti Planskoy Leopold Fischer Light Vision Lina Bryans Lisa Larsen Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Marcos Chamúdez Margery Lewis Maria Bordy Mark Strizic May Mirin Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors” Midtown Y Photography Gallery Mildred Grossman Modern Photography ‎ Museum of Modern Art Australia (MOMAA) ‎ Musya S. Sheeler Myron Davis Nat Farbman Nell Dorr Nick De Morgoli Nico Jesse Nikolai Kozlovsky Nora Dumas PIX Publishing Paul Martin Peter Bray Gallery Peter Moeschlin Peter Werner Häberlin Petticoat Pinacotheca, Melbourne ‎ Ralph Hattersley Ray Platnick René Groebli Robert Halmi Robert Mottar Rudolf Busler Réalités Sabine Weiss Schostal Sebastian Finsterwalder Shirley Burden Sovetskoe Foto Sovfoto Suzanne Szasz Ten.8 The Camera (American magazine) The Camera (Irish magazine) The Photogram (magazine) The Photographers’ Gallery and Workshop The Sydney Camera Circle Three Lions Inc. Thurston Hopkins Torkel Korling Vandy Rattana Vito Fiorenza Walkabout (magazine) Walter B. Lane Wermund Bendtsen Werner Rosenberg Willi Huttig William Vandivert Émile Savitry Étienne Sved Share this: Share Tweet Email Print Share on Tumblr Pocket Like this: Like Loading... Related Published by jamesmmcardle Artist and recovering academic enlightened by the metaphoric potential of focal effects and the differences between human and camera vision. View all posts by jamesmmcardle Posted in text and image5 Comments 5 thoughts on “April 14: Wikipedia” creativetallis says: 14/04/2019 at 9:36 PM Congratulations on a fantastic contribution to the history of photography. LikeLike Reply jamesmmcardle says: 15/04/2019 at 9:19 AM Thank you! I salute your efforts in PhotoPedagogy and at Thomas Tallis School! LikeLike Reply Pingback: April 23: Static – On This Date in Photography Pingback: December 1: Forsaken – On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardle Pingback: December 11: Carol – On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardle Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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