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Invented the Calotype
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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Invented the Daguerreotype
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Louis Daguerre
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Invented Direct Positive Process
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Hippolyte Bayard
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Invented Carte De Visite
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Adolphe Eugene Disderi
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Most famous portraitist in New York
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Matthew Brady
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Daguerreotype
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Invented by Luois Daguerre published in 1839. popular for portraits. Image on a highly-polished, silvered copper plate. After exposure, image was made visible by dev in the fumes of mercury and fixed in sodium hyposulfite.
Very sharp exposure.
Protected by metal mats and glass covers in frames. Became obsolete by the end of 1860s.
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salted paper
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(Talbot) fade easily, light sensitive silver salts are soaked into paper.
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Calotype
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(Talbot) 1840. allowed for making many copies. more rough appearance. Considered more artistic. Negatives were usually printed using the Salted Paper process.
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David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
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Collaborate on portraits of people in Scotland. Great use of light and shade. Subject emerge out of deep shadows.
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Wet-Collodion Process
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1851 Frederick Scott Archer. Glass plates to make a negative. Sharpness and mulitple copies. Out-did Daguerreotype.
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Stereoviews
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Viewed with Stereoscope. Description/stories on back of pictures, popular collectible item.
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Camera Obscura
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16th century enabled artists to trace images of subjects.
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Camera Lucida
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variant on camera obscura, portable used a prism allowed artist to see both paper and subject at the same time.
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Albumen Prints
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19th century, making positive prints on paper.Table salt beaten into egg white and misture spread on sheets of paper and dried. Paper was sensitized and dried in dark. Printing was by contact w/ the neg. Long exposure to daylight required. Picture dev while exposed.
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Carte de Visite
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Adolph Eugene Disderi, small visiting car portraits. About 8 photographs taken on one plate.
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce
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Invented heliopgraph, w/ daguerre, made first know photograph.
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W.H. Fox Talbot
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Invented Talbottype (Calotype), and salted paper printing process. Tried to enforce patents, resulted in less use of Calotype.
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Hippoplyte Bayard
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Invented direct positive prints on paper process. French gov rejected his experiements. Made self portrait, drowned man.
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D.O. Hill & Robert Adamson
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Made Calotypes in Scotland, often fishermen and families, scenic views. Used natural light.
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Anna Atkins
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Made Cyanotypes of botanical specimens.
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F. Scott Archer
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Invented wet-collodion process. Used glass plates as support for emulsion producing sharp negs that could be printed as mulitples.
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Lumiere Brothers
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Invented the autochrome. First color process.
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J.H. Lartigue
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made many pics of his family, using some autochroms as a young boy.
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Edward Baldus
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Primarily made Calotypes of views in France. Buildings, railway stations and landscape. Used perspective.
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