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Wedgewood and Davy-earliest record of photography
In 1802, Thomas Wedgewood presented along with Sir Humphrey Davy, to the Royal Ins6tu6on of Great Britain a paper “An Account of Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and Making Profiles by the Agency upon Nitrate of Silver”. Thomas Wedgewood’s father founded Wedgewood PoHery and an impetus for this inven6on could have been to enable images to be printed directly onto pottery products such as plates and bowls.
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Ohio Becomes The 17th state in the Union
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan (2 September 1812 in Keir, Dumfries, and Galloway – 26 January 1878 in Keir) was a Scottish blacksmith. He is generally credited with inventing the pedal-driven bicycle. -
Indiana becomes the 19th State
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Mississippi becomes the 20th State
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Illinois becomes the 21st State
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Alabama becomes the 22nd State
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Maine Becomes the 23rd state
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Missouri Becomes the 24th state
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Earliest surviving photograph created by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Niépce made what is now known as a DIRECT POSITIVE image.
An exposure 6me of 8 hours is not a viable solu6on – however, this image proved that a photograph could be made. -
William Fox Talbot create the image “Latticed Window”
This is the first known image made by Henry Fox Talbot in 1835. He called his invention a ‘Calotype’.
The Latticed window is in Lacock Abbey – his family home. A completely irrelevant piece of trivia is that parts of the Harry Potter film series were filmed in this Abbey.
Fox Talbot did not announce his invention until 1839 – therefore Daguerre announced his inven6on to the world before Fox Talbot. -
Arkansas Becomes the 25th state
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"boulevard du temple" taken by Daguerre
This is an image made by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris. It is widely believed to be the first image of a human being. The man standing was having his shoe shined on a street corner. Because he stood there long enough his image was recorded by the camera. Normally in long exposures (where the lens allows in light for over a second) moving images (such as people walking) do not register on the light-sensi6ve material. -
stereoscope
Stereoscopes were viewers (as pictured here), they enabled you to view images at home and in 3‐dimensions. -
Anna Atkins create the first photographic book
Scientific Illustrator – Anna Atkins – used the cyanotype process to create her scientific illustrations. The cyanotype technique was first developed by Sir John Herschell – it was considered to combine “Scientific exactitude with aesthetic sensitivity to form and presentation (Marien, 34). -
“The Pencil of Nature”
Henry Fox Talbot published a book of his photographs titled “The Pencil of Nature” in six sections from 1844 – 1846. It was the first book using silver gelatin photographs. -
Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
1846: Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine and threads his way into the fabric of history. French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a device in 1830 that mechanized the typical hand-sewing motions to create a simple chain stitch. He planned to mass-produce uniforms for the French army -
"the valley of the shadow of death"
Valley of the Shadow of Death is a photograph by Roger Fenton, taken on April 23, 1855, during the Crimean War. It is one of the most well-known images of war. -
Photograph of Alice Liddell by Charles Dodgson
Here is a photograph of Alice Liddell as ‘The Begger Maid’ taken by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) who is often better known for his book “Alice in Wonderland”. -
“Two Ways of Life”-Henry Peach Robinson
Henry Peach Robinson learned the technique of combination printing from Rejlander. This scene of a young girl, being tended to by her family, disturbed the public when it was first exhibited. Many felt that the subject matter of a young woman dying should not be exhibited. Later the public was affronted when they learned, from Robinson, that the photographic tableaux were a fiction. -
Abraham Lincoln portrait--Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady is the best known civil war photographer, though he took few photographs himself.
This photograph was carefully constructed to make his large hands appear smaller. To add another formal element to the photograph and to give Lincoln gravitas, his left hand is resting on a book. -
“home of a rebel sharpshooter“ alexander gardner
In this image, the body of the sharpshooter and the rifle has been moved. According to Marien, Gardner never made a secret of this fact. However, in his book, Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Gardner created a story about how the young sharpshooter had been wounded in the head and had laid down on his blanket waiting for death to take him. -
Portraits for scientific purposes
The British Scientist, Charles Darwin published his book “The Origin of Species in 1859. He then returned to a study on human emotions and published a book titled “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.” He used photography to argue that the physical signs of emotions were inherently the same in humans and animals. This plate illustrated here was used in the chapter “Joy, High Spirits, Love, Tender Feelings, and Devotion. -
sir lancelot and queen guinevere- Julia Margaret Cameron
This photograph is an example of a Tableaux Vivant – draws inspiration from the legend of King Arthur. It is one of a series of photographs created by Cameron at the bequest of the poet Alfred Tennyson who suggested that Cameron create some illustrations for his series of poems on Arthurian legends, "Idylls of the King." -
Poling the marsh hay -Peter Henry Emerson
Peter Henry Emerson was dismayed by the work of Henry Peach Robinson and others who manipulated images by combining multiple photographs.
He created his own thesis about photography and used only selective focus and the careful gradation of tones.
He looked to the work of painters for his aesthetic models.
By doing so, he broke away from the contrived tableaux of his predecessors or sharp, straightforward documentation. Instead, he opted for a more impressionist vision. -
Youth sitting on a stone-F. Holland Day
The American F. Holland Day was a well‐known photographer. He used the pictorialist technique of soft focus to make his photographs of the male nude more refined and less explicit.
