Joseph Nicesphore Niepce

View From the Window at Gras 1826

Upper left- Niepce residence used as a pigeon house.

Center- Slanted roof of the barn.

8 hr. exposure w/ light change (the light is visible on the roof & both ends of buildings) Rediscovered in 1952.

Louis-Jaques Mande Daguerre

Landscape with Gothic Ruins & Figures 1821

Louis-Jacques Mande Daquerre

Still Life (Interior of a Cabinet of Curiousities) 1837

Daguerreotype: 1 of oldest. Diff. materials showed a lot of texture & clarity w/ the new medium. High contrast black to white.

Louis-Jacques Daquerre

Boulevard du Temple 1839

Daquerreotype. Subjects moved rapidly for the plate, therefore, only 1 thing was visible-man getting shoes shined

Hippolute Bayard

Self Portrait as a Drowned Man 1840

William Henry Fox Talbot

Leaf with Serrated Edge 1839

William henry Fox Talbot

Latticed Window Taken with the Camera Obscura 1835

William Henry Fox Talbot

The Open Door 1844

William Henry Fox Talbot

Articles of China, plate 3 from the Pencil of Nature 1844-6

William Henry Fox Talbot

The Haystack from the Pencil of Nature

Hippolyte Bayard

Self-Portrait with Plaster Casts 1850

Left:Gustave Le Gray       

Forest of Fontainebleau 1851

Gustave Le Gray

Mediterranean Sea at Sete 1856-59

Paul Strand

Photograph-New York (Woman with Sign that reads Blind) 1917

From "Camera Work"

Used a trick camera.

Paul Strand

Abstractions, Porch Shadows, Conneticut 1915

Obscured his subject matter-shawdows cast by a porch railing & posts- in a pleasingly balanced abstraction of complementary geometric shapes & tones of light & dark. gelatin silver print.

Jacob Riis

Bandits' Roost 1888  New York

Gelatin silver print from the priginal negative.

Lewis W. Hine

Child in Carolina Cotton Mill 1908

Gelatin silver print on masonite