History of Photography to 1900

Terms:Camera ObscuraDaguerreotypeCollodionAlbumencarte de visiteMatthew BradyLewis Carroll

The Invention of the Camera

Camera Obscura description, 1544

Camera Obscura, 1769

Portable Camera Obscura, 1694

The Invention of Photography (light writing) - Daguerreotype

Niepce, 1827

Photograph of Daguerre, 1844

Daguerre (painting), 1824

Daguerre, 1837

Daguerre, c1838

Saxton, October, 1839

Langenheim Brothers, 1844

Cornelius (self-portrait), 1839

Anonymous Daguerreotype, c1850

Anonymous, c1850

Southworth & Hawes, 1847

Krone, c1850

Oehme, c1845

Anon, Samual F.B. Morse, c1845

Anon, Frederick Douglass, 1847

Jabez Hogg Making Portrait, 1843

Punch Cartoon, 1857

The Invention of Photography, Part II - Talbotype or Callitype

Claudet, William H.F. Talbot, c1854

Talbot, Cyanotype of Feathers, 1845

Hill & Adamson, c1846

Hill & Adamson, c1845

The Invention of Photography, Part III - Bayard’s Process

Hippolyte Bayard, 1840

Hippolyte Bayard, 1842

The Improvement of Photography - Collodion Wet-Plate with Albumin Paper

Carjat, Emile Zola, 1877

Carjat, Rossini, 1877

Posing Headrest, c1868

Posing Chair, 1882

Posing Chair Joke

Alexander Gardner, LewisPayne(Consp) 1865

War Photography

Roger Fenton, Cookhouse of 8th Hussars, 1855

Roger Fenton, Lt Col Hallewell, 1855

Roger Fenton, Valley of Death, 1855

Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855

Matthew Brady, Lincoln ‘Cooper Union’ Portrait

Timothy O'Sullivan, Gettysburg Battle, 1863

Alexander Gardner, Carnage At Antietam, 1862

Travel Photography

Moran, Delaware Water Gap (Stereograph), c1864

Maxime Du Camp, Colossus 1850

Darkroom Tent, 1877

Frances Frith, Pyramids, 1858

Timothy O’Sullivan, White House Ruins,1873

Ansel Adams, White House Ruins

O’Sullivan (left), Adams (right)

John Sexton, White House Ruins, 1987

Fernique(?), Construction of the Statue of Liberty, c1880

Nadar and the Carte-de-Visite

Daumier, Nadar, 1862

Nadar, Sarah Bernhardt

Nadar, Eugene Delacroix, c1855

Disderi, Princess Gabrielli, c1862

Anonymous, Tintype from Civil War, c1862

Amateurs & Artists

Nadar, Two Cartoons 1855 & 1857

O. J. Rejlander, Hard Times, 1860

O.J. Rejlander, The Two Ways of Life, 1857

O.J. Rejlander, fm Expressions...

O.J. Rejlander, fm Expressions...

O. J. Rejlander, Lewis Carroll, 1863

Lewis Carroll, The Liddle Sisters, c1859

Lewis Carroll, It Won’t Come Smooth, 1863

Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858

Julia Margaret Cameron, Sadness, 1864

Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs Herbert Duckworth

Julia Margaret Cameron, Sir John Herschel, 1867

Social Responsibility

John Thompson, Woman and Baby, 1877

Jacob Riis, Home of Italian Ragpicker 1888

Jacob Riis, Bandit'sRoost, NY, 1888

Adam Clark Vroman, Hopi at Oraibi, 1901

Technical Improvements

Eadweard Muybridge, 1878

Eadweard Muybridge, 1884

Eadweard Muybridge, 1884

Eadweard Muybridge, 1885

Muybridge Study with Motion

Photographic Revolver, 1882

First Kodak Advertisement 1888