DESMA 8 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nicéphore Niépce, Frederick Scott Archer, Henry Fox Talbot
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Louis daguerre: august 19, 1839, no patent fees, daguerreotype studios. Thomas wedgewood: rst un xed photographic picture (1792) Joseph nicephore niepce: coating a tin plate with asphalt, 8 hours. 1838: highly polished silver plate, exposed to iodine fumes, covered in mer- cury, image xed with sodium thiosulfate ~ heliographs (sun writing) : aka. Radically new way of presenting the world, a great scienti c break- through. No negatives, no subsequent prints on paper. 1841: calotype by william henry fox talbot (patented) Could produce negatives but the images were too soft or fuzzy. 1851: frederick scott archer, wet plate collodion process, detailed glass plate negative able to generate thousands of positive prints, only a few sec- onds of exposure. Drawback: preparation and development had to take place just before and just after the photo was taken, harder to take images in the eld. Mathew brady: famed us civil war photographer. 1844: opened is portrait studio, brady of broadway .
