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1878
 
    
English-born US photographer Eadweard Muybridge publishes closely linked photographs revealing how a horse goes through its paces       
1879
 
    
English physicist Joseph Swan receives a patent for bromide paper, which becomes the standard material for printing photographs       
1882
 
    
Eadweard Muybridge projects slow-motion images of a trotting horse as a demonstration at London's Royal Institution       
1887
 
    
Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs       
1890
 
    
In How the Other Half Lives David Riis alerts middle-class New Yorkers to the appalling slum conditions in lower Manhattan       
1902
 
    
Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement       
1905
 
     
US photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen set up the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York        
1932
 
    
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York       
1933
 
    
Hungarian photographer Brassaï publishes his photographs of the seedier side of Paris night life in Paris de Nuit       
1936
 
    
Hungarian photographer Robert Capa achieves an unprecedented immediacy in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War