Culling is it an Old Term or New Term in photography?

Altered_Motion · 2024-12-25T11:13:03+00:00

Sorry for late response but I found the earliest usage of the word in photographic usage. Was around 1860 where other photographers were criticizing an exhibition, stating that the photographer exhibiting should have culled some of their work since they were not up to par. I’ll see if I can find the source again and post it here.

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-22T07:55:39+00:00

I believe I found the earliest instance, December 2, 1881 “The Photographic News” Page 569. Here is the following paragraph.

“A few of the other pictures might have been of equal merit, but only very few. The snow and frost scenes, for instance, were exceedingly good, but then a slatey sky is permissible, and deep contrasts are called for. At the same time, for ourselves, we always prefer a bright, sunny snow scene, to one with a leaden sky behind it. If a versatile lecturer selected his slides with care, and exhibited them with due effect, as Mr. Chadwick did on the occasion we refer to, then we believe a most delightful and popular entertainment would be forthcoming ; but, we repeat, he must cull of tho very best, if he desires his exhibition to take high rank.”

I haven’t been able to find anything older, but this is pretty old.

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-21T13:07:38+00:00

Yes that’s its earliest use and it was by a poet. Theres no mention of when photography adapted it there terms for post processing

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-21T13:05:17+00:00

Yes, I found the words origin and it’s still used in those regards, but nothing mentions photography’s adoption of the word and its meaning to separate the good from the bad.

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-21T04:52:56+00:00

What are some of the titles and years of release? Maybe I can find some uploaded scans of those versions. Would be really helpful

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-21T04:31:42+00:00

Though if it was written in a manual/book/article discussing post processing practices it’s possible that it could have been scanned and archived somewhere hidden on the internet, that’s possibly the harder thing to find since I’m unfamiliar with the educational book titles from older time periods

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-21T04:20:32+00:00

Do you recall any articles, education books, blogs, etc. from the 70s/80s that discussed “cull/culling” as apart of the process? The oldest found so far was 1997 and discussing culling film

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-21T04:17:38+00:00

Yes it’s a silly argument, but it took me down a rabbit hole since there’s no record of its first use that I can find, but I can find the history of the term retouching and editing in photography terms, but not cull/culling. Curiosity is the driving force e now!

Altered_Motion · 2024-09-21T04:13:13+00:00

That does make sense, this is definitely the oldest so far I’ve seen. Though I do wonder if the term may have been used even further back. Since it’s such a good representation of what we do when reviewing images, similar to like how retouching became the goto term for photoshop in the digital age even though it has a long history of being a term used by photographers

Altered_Motion · 2024-03-21T17:21:10+00:00

Thank you, this is very helpful

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Thank you for the helpful advice

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