Question: The department of photography was established in which year?
About the article "Metropolitan Museum of Art", section "Photographs".

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Photographie.com is the oldest French photography online magazine.
The subscription-free magazine includes all genres of photography and contains exhibition and photo book reviews, essays, analysis and criticism about photography and culture.
It also provides video interviews with photographers, curators and other photography experts.
Photographie.com was created in 1996 by Jean-François Bauret, Yan Morvan and Didier de Faÿs to advance the interests of photographers and quickly established itself as a trusted name in photography.
In 1998 Photographie.com launched the "Bourse du Talent" photography competition which awards prizes to young photographers in four different categories: reportage, portrait, fashion and landscape.
The work of the prize winners is exhibited at the Bibliothèque nationale de France every year.  
Raised in Los Angeles, Archer was experimenting with pictorialist photography as early as 1915, when he made a portrait of Edward Weston.
Archer served in a military aerial photography unit in France in World War I, and returned to the United States in May, 1919.
He began studying commercial art, and photography was at that time a hobby of his.
In less than a year, Archer gained critical attention in two east coast photography journals, "American Photography"In the early 1920s, he was hired as assistant head of the Art Title Department for Universal Pictures and was promoted to head the department the following year.
He soon moved on to motion picture photography. 
At the age of 16, in 1897, Lewis Larsson began studying photography under the guidance of Elijah Meyers, the founder of the photography department in the American Colony.
In 1904, Larsson succeeded him as head of the department, which was becoming quite profitable. 
Department of Photography.
In 1997 the Tartu Art School established a programme in Photography.
The architect of the initial curriculum and the director of the program was Vallo Kalamees.
The principal aim of the Department of Photography is to provide students with internationally recognized specialized art education, to create conditions for their professional development, and to help students achieve their creative objectives.
Since 2000, the Department of Photography is chaired by Professor Peeter Linnap PhD (born 1960)Presentation about Department: http://www.artcol.ee/files/tac_2009.pdf 
, also known as Ogawa Kazuma or Ogawa Isshin, was a Japanese photographer, printer and publisher who was a pioneer in photomechanical printing and photography in the Meiji era.
Ogawa was born in Saitama to the Matsudaira samurai clan.
He started studying English and photography at the age of 15 under Yoshiwara Hideo, then in 1880 he moved to Tokyo in order to further hone his English language skills.
One year later, Ogawa was hired as an interpreter in the Yokohama Police Department, while learning photography from Shimooka Renjō in Yokohama.
In 1882, he moved to Boston where he took courses in portrait photography and the dry plate process.
He also studied collotype printing in Albert Type Company.
Upon his return to Japan in 1884, Ogawa opened a photographic studio in Iidabashi (Kōjimachi), the first in Tokyo.
Four years later, he established the Tsukiji Kampan Seizō Kaisha ( Tsukiji dry plate manufacturing company), which manufactured dry plates for use by photographers.
In 1889, he set up Japan's first collotype business, the Ogawa Shashin Seihan jo (), also referred to as the K. Ogawa printing factory.
In the same year, Ogawa worked as an editor for "Shashin Shinpō" (, lit.
Photography journal), the only photographic journal available at the time, as well as for "Kokka" magazine (, lit.
National flower).
He printed both magazines using the collotype printing process.
Ogawa was a founding member of the Japan Photographic Society, which gathered photography amateurs from all around Japan.
In 1891, he was charged with taking 100 pictures of Tokyo's most attractive geisha, to commemorate the opening of the Ryōunkaku.