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Frederick Scott Archer, a British sculptor, invents a method for coating glass plates with collodion and silver salts; this introduces the wet-plate process

Albumen printing paper introduced by L. D. Blanquart-Evrard

  1851

Talbot makes first instantaneous photographs using electric spark illumination

In London, The Great Exhibition exhibits photographs for the first time

Societe Heliographique founded in Paris

»Missions heliographiques« project started by the French Government; they commission photographers to record France's ancient architectural monuments

  1852

Talbot patents a prototype of photo-engraphing

In London, The Society of Arts has an exhibition of 779 photographs

  1854

Ambrotype, a positive collodion image, patented in US

A.-A.-E. Disdéri patents carte-de visite portraiture

Photographic Society of London founded; they publish the first issue of the »Journal of the Photographic Society«

»Societe Francaise de Photographie« founded in Paris

  1855

Ferrotype process (tintypes) introduced to US

Alphonse Poitevin, a French chemist, discovers two methods for printing with potassium bichromate; these methods develop into photolithography and carbon printing

  1856

Photojournalism of Crimean War by Roger Fenton, James Robertson, and Carol Popp de Scathmari

Thomson takes the first underwater photograph at a depth of 5 feet

  1857

Felice Beato and James Robertson begin photographing the Indian Mutinies; Beato photographs conflicts in China and Japan

Francis Firth begins photographing in Egypt and opens a publishing house; he produces »Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem«

  1858

At the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, Oscar Gustav Rejlander exhibits »The Two Ways of Life«, a combination print made by assembling images from several negatives onto one print; Robinson exhibits »The Dying Girl«

  1859

Sutton panoramic camera patented

  1860

Nadar (Gaspard F. Tournachon) photographs Paris from a balloon

  1861

James Clerk Maxwell's »On the Theory of the Three Primary Colours«

Oliver Wendell Holmes invents popular stereoscope viewer

Felix Tournachon (Nadar) makes the first photographs underground using Bunsen batteries to produce artificial illumination

Mathew Brady begins photographic documentation of the United States Civil War;  other photographers follow, including: George Barnard, Alexander Gardner, Andrew Russell, and Timothy O'Sullivan

  1862

Louis Ducos Du Hauron describes methods for producing photographic images in color

  1864

In Vienna, the first issue of »Photografische Korrespondenz« is produced

Swan receives patent for the Carbon Process

  1865

The Era of western photography begins in the United States; from 1865 to 1880, photographers work for U.S. Geology Survey, railway companies, and other photographic firms; these photographers include: O'Sullivan, Russell, W. H. Jackson, Eadweard Muybridge, and Carleton Watkins

  1866

Woodburytype process is patented

  1868

Thomas Annan begins documenting the slum areas of Glasgow

  1869

Louis Ducos du Hauron's »Colors in Photography« describes the principles of color photography

Henry Peach Robinson publishes »Pictorial Effect in Photography«; goal of the book is to teach esthetic concepts to photographers

  1871

Richard Leach Maddox invents the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process

Pigeons used to carry microphotographed messages across enemy lines

  1872

John W. Hyatt begins manufacturing celluloid

Muybridge begins photographic motion studies and continues project until 1887; the first photographs are of a horse in motion

  1873

Hermann Wilhelm Vogel increases the spectral sensitivity of photographic emulsions by adding dyes

The platinotype process is patented by Willis in England

Thomas produces »Illustrations of China and its People«

  1874

Léon Vidal combines chromolithography with Woodburytype printing




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