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1826Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) a French doctor, produces the world’s first photograph using pewter plates in a camera obscura. Exposure was around eight hours.
1829Jacques Louis Mande Daguerre and Nicephore Niepce sign partnership agreement to work on perfecting photography
1833On a visit to Lake Como, William Henry Fox Talbot, an English amateur scientist, is frustrated by his inability to draw, even when using a camera lucida.
1855Alphonse Poitevin, patented the carbon print offering a permanent image without grain. Negatives were printed onto a “tissue” containing carbon and other pigments in a gelatin base. The gelatin had been made light-sensitive by a bath of potassium bichromate. After washing, the image on the tissue was transferred to a paper base and the backing of the tissue was stripped off Etienne CarjatCharles Baudelaire1860
1855Poitevin also patents photolithography using dichromated albumen exposed to light on a lithographic stone Pierre TremauxDeuxieme Regard du Syphon du Gd. Aqueduc1850
1855Roger Fenton makes photographs of the Crimean War using a specially constructed caravan with a portable darkroom. Roger FentonBalaklava Looking Seawards1855
1856John Benjamin Dancer applies for a patent for a stereoscopic camera allowing both images to be taken at the same time 1900
1856At the request of Queen Victoria, Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett create a series of photographs at Aldershot Camp of Crimean war heroes after their return to England Joseph Cundall and Robert HowlettHeroes of the Crimean War1856
1856Francis Frith makes his first trip to Egypt to photograph antiquities Francis FrithThe Statues of Memon, Plain of Thebes1857
1856Lewis Carroll (the Rev. Charles Dodgson) begins photographing. Though mostly known for his images of young girls, scholars later determine that this represents less than 50%
of his output. He gave up photography entirely in 1880
1856Introduced by Adolphe Alexandre Martin, the tintype, also known as a ferrotype, is a variation of the ambrotype, but produced on metallic sheet (not, actually, tin) instead of glass. unknownunknown1880
1856Charles Negre receives a patent for
improvements on the heliogravure process Charles NegreCathedrale de Chartres, Moulages Pourtout du Choeur, 16th siecle1857
1857O.G. Rejlander produces Two Ways Of Life, an allegorical composite photograph combining 30 negatives
1858Nadar takes the first aerial photograph from a balloon over Paris.
1858The first book book illustrated with original stereographs is published in London. The book by the astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth is Teneriffe, an Astronomer´s experiment: or, specialities of a residence above the clouds.
1858Alphonse Poitevin, patented the carbon print offering a permanent image without grain. Negatives were printed onto a “tissue” containing carbon and other pigments in a gelatin base. The gelatin had been made light-sensitive by a bath of potassium bichromate. After washing, the image on the tissue was transferred to a paper base and the backing of the tissue was stripped off Louis De ClerqDenderah (Facade du midi)1858
1858Henry Peach Robinson makes Fading Away, a story telling genre print combining five negatives. He becomes very influential in establishing rules for photographic “art”
1859A group of artists and photographers, including Eugène Delacroix, Francis Wey and Gustave Le Gray succeed in getting photography included in the 1859 Paris Salon but the photography section has a separate entrance.
1859The Sunbeam: Photographs from Nature is published Philip Henry DelamotteMagdalen College, Oxford, from the Cherwell1859
1859Nadar makes photographs underground in Paris using battery-powered arc lamps.
1893The flash-bulb is invented, a glass bulb filled with magnesium-coated metal ribbon, ignited electrically
1895X-rays are discovered by Wilhelm Rontgen James Green, James H. GardinerBritish Batrachians and Reptiles, Moldge Palmatia1890
1897Alfred Stieglitz becomes editor of Camera Notes, the publication of the Camera Club of New York Alfred StieglitzAn Icy Night1898
1898Frank A. Rinehart photographs indian leaders attending the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, and Indian Congress, Omaha, Nebraska, 1898 F. A. RinehartGov. Diego Narango-Santa Clara1899
1899‘The New School of American Photography’ the first major exhibition of American pictorial photography is held at the Royal Photographic Society. It consists of 360 images by such photographers as: F. Holland Day; Edward Steichen; Gertrude Kasebier; and Clarence White.
