History of Photography

a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface

an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it

Illuminated by the Argand Oil Lamp, it was an advanced magic lantern that created rear-screen image projections of ghosts, skeletons, and celebrities in a semidarkened theatre. Special effects of lightning, thunder, and smoke enhanced the eerie atmosphere.

Heliograph

Daguerreotype

Latticed Window at Lacock Abbey 1835(Description on photo) English inventor, produced a positive image on a paper negative in 1835. This was the first positive/negative process closest to what we do now with film. Multiple images could be made from the same negative.

botanist (1799 - 1871) She was a botanist and was also the first woman photographer.

invented the first direct positive process; first self-portrait. Self Portrait as a Drowned Man 1840

Mother Alberts, The Family Vegetable Woman. Daguerreotype. Photography democratized portraiture by making it economically feasible for ordinary working people to have their likeness memorialized.

Fantasies: La Daguerreotypomanie. Hand-colored Lithograph

Self-Portrait with Eyes Closed. Ninth plate daguerreotype.

Portrait of a Man Reading a Newspaper

Whole plate daguerreotype

Portrait of abolitionist John Brown, holding one hand up next to white flag. African American photographer.

Tourists Viewing Niagra Falls from Prospect Point. Whole plate daguerreotype with applied color.

The Moon Quarter plate daguerreotype.

The Open Door. Broom against door jamb. English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)

Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (Miss Rigby) Lady sitting next to a table with figurines on it. White dress, eyes closed.

Building Up the Colossi of Abbo Simbel. Huge feet statues, construction site.

Jersey, 1856. Calotype negative. Castle looking building.

The Sun at Zenith, Normandy 1855. Albumen print from paper negative. Sunset over oceanlike water.

Man standing on balcony of a building next to a gargoyle.

Cathedral at Laon, France. Calotype. Twin towers, circular window.

Took a photo of shown image: The Louvre, Colbert Pavilion

Took a photo of shown image: La Porte Rouge, Notre Dame de Paris

Photo of a clown in eight images together. Albumen Print Paul Legrand (Clown in White Face) 1860-1865

Death of Prince Albert Montage.

Photograph of an Indian dressed man. Murderer ad. Cut Nose, 1862

Abraham Lincoln 1863

Supplicies (Louis Napoleon Album, Heads of Executed Men)

Portrait of a woman in an aphgan thing. 1877

Alphonse Karr from Galerie Contemporaine. Back view of a balding man wearing mostly black

Adah Isaacs Menkin as Mazeppa 1866 Woman lying on side with hat

Double Image : Portrait of Claudet Family 1855

Fire in the Ames Mills Oswego NY Burning BARN

Photo minus all the edited crap in it. The Valley of the Shadow of Death was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers; he photographed the Crimean war

Interior of Fort Taku in North China Immediately after Capture. Ladders Dead bodies scattered on ground.

Rocks, guy dead on ground, rifle propped on rocks. "Death of a Rebel Sharp Shooter" -this photo was slightly manipulated for composition -photographed Civil War, Lincoln -Scottish

A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, VA Black guy sitting next to pile of skulls.

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, PA Dead bodies scattered in a field.

Stone Wall, Rear of Fredericksburg Ditch with Dead bodies and rifles lined up by each body.

Gunshot Wound Middle Third of Left Femur. Guy standing in shirt next to mirror with messed up looking thigh.

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Photographic Study. Girl along starry wallpaper

Untitled. Photos of portraits and flower and butterfly drawings.

Irene MacDonald. Girl laying on her side in a rounded vignette in pillows and sheets

Two Ways of Life Two sides of a photos, two men looking at opposite situations. nudes curtains classical looking

A Necromancer from studies of expression. Guy standing with walking stick against a tree wearing ratty clothes looking into distance

Fading Away , Girl dying from disease in bed with two women and a man looking out window. Set up image. started photography in 1852; became the leader of a so-called High Art movement which advocated beauty and artisitic effect no matter how it was obtained

Sir John Herchel- Crazy looking eyes, looks like old woman with babushka on. One of the first photographers in the history of photography. Took portraits of close and famous friends and had very close portrait compositions that would only show upper torso or head. used natural light really well with her portraits

Mental Patient. Self-Explainatory.

NO. 27 Once a Little Vagrant Cards

Egyptian thing. The Colossus of Abu-Simbel.

Bank of Nile at Thebes. Bland Image of Water and a sprout of trees in one far area of the image.

Jerusalem. City, castle looking, landscape image

The Sphinx and Great Pyramid Geezah. Egyptian things. Pyramid and Sphinx

Horse and Chariot Statue.

ll Portico Degli Uffixi E II Palazzo. View down small street.

Ascension of Mont-Blanc. Rocks with a bunch of little figurines.

Stuffed Animals and Ethographic Figures. Bull being pulled by the horns.

Big Ship. Leviathan.

River Scene Circular vignette

The Viceroy's Elephants.

Water Palace Deeg

The Crawlers. Old woman holding small baby sitting in the street.

Close no. 31 Saltmarket. Alley view. he photographed reality of industrial cities

Na-che-ninga, Chief of the Iowas. Native American with earings and such.

Trestle work

El-Eachas or Three brothers Three points off a mountain

Shoshone Falls, Idaho. Waterfall

The Mountain of the holy cross.

Clouds Rest, valley of the yosemite

Galloping horse. Series of running horse.

Jesse Godley walking man.

Woman walking around with cloth

Man Pole Vaulting

Storks

descending vesuvius. Complete circle vignette.

The Universal Exposition. Eiffel Tower.

The art of living a hundred years. three photos of two old men.

Landscape with Farmhouse

Indian Chief, color. In sun, facing right.