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  2. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]

  3. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Landmark environmental portraiture and iconography of the Industrial Revolution and 19th century. [s 1] Two Ways of Life: 1857 Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Wolverhampton, England [22] Albumen print [s 1] La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene) 1857 Camille Silvy: Nogent-le-Rotrou, France Albumen print [s 1] Fading Away: 1858 Henry Peach Robinson

  4. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    The Photo History Timeline Collection; In the eye of the camera — Illustrated historical essay about early photography; Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging; The Digital Camera Museum with accurate history section and many rare items Archived 2017-02-16 at the Wayback Machine; The Fascinating Timeline of Photography Technology

  5. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the 19th century Eastman had expanded his lineup to several models including both box and folding cameras. In 1900, Eastman took mass-market photography one step further with the Brownie, a simple and very inexpensive box camera that introduced the concept of the snapshot. The Brownie was extremely popular and various models ...

  6. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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    Unfortunately, the paper products produced and used during the late-19th and early-20th centuries are highly acidic and will cause yellowing, brittling and degradation of hand-coloured photographs. Metallic inclusions in the paper can also oxidize which may be the cause of foxing in paper materials.

  7. Photography in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C., announced the acquisition of a private collection of early photographs, taken between the 1840s and the mid-1920s, with 40 daguerreotypes made by three 19th century African American photographers.

  8. Collodion process - Wikipedia

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    A portable photography studio in 19th-century Ireland. The wet collodion process sometimes gave rise to portable darkrooms, as photographic images needed to be developed while the plate was still wet. Animation illustrating the detail found in a wet-collodion photograph taken in Hill End in 1872.

  9. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem photography was common in the nineteenth century. [5] As photography was a new medium, it is plausible that many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young children, were probably the only photographs ever made of the sitters [ clarification needed ] .