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Joseph Neicephore Niepce

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  • created first permanent image
  • developed heliography
  • first photographer
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Louis Jacques Daguerre

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  • theatrical designer
  • created daguerrotype process
  • process was faster
  • process gained popularity
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Henry Fox Talbot

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  • made the paper negative and calotype
  • used light sensitive salts
  • charged a high fee for his process
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Anna Atkins

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  • earliest female photographer
  • took photographs of British algae using cyanotype impressions
  • studied botany and scientific illustration
  • Atkins’s 1843 book of algae was the first-ever published book of photograph
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Sir John Herschel

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  • created vocabulary for photography
  • photographed things that hadn’t been seen before (lunar crater of copernicus)
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John Plumbe Jr.

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  • started first photography classes
  • 25 photo galleries in 1845
  • made plumbotype gallery
  • pushed daguerrotypes
  • set precedent for marketing and changed standard posing
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Southworth and Hawes

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  • daguerrotype studio in Boston
  • employed family for coloring and poses
  • more expensive than other places
  • larger daguerrotypes than normal
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John Adams Whipple and James Wallace Black

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  • photographed the moon using a 22ft telescope
  • struggled due to lighting
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Dr. Hugh Welch

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  • photographed asylum patients for treatment and to raise money for asylum
  • member of photography society
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Alphonse Bertillon

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  • former police officer
  • took mugshots
  • brought specific measurements and anthropology
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Roger Fenton

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  • took some of the 1st war photos
  • had horse drawn photographic van
  • photographed crimean war
  • photographed “Valley of the Shadow of Death”
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Felice Beato

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  • photographed dead soliders
  • criticized for his subjects
  • took war photos
  • took travel photography photos (a lot of topographical and architectural views)
  • Photographed places in conflict that he couldn’t normally go to but could due to war
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Matthew Brady

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  • portrait photography
  • photographed John Quincy Adams and Abe Lincoln
  • He was kind of the big boss of Civil War photography
  • He would send out teams of photographers to all the different battle sights and with the bigger battalions and have them take a bunch of pictures and bring them back to him
  • He put his name on everything, but most of the photos taken during this time with his name on them, he didn’t even take.
  • He had a studio in New York that he ran, where he took some photos of Abraham Lincon; he was credited with doing a carte de vista for Lincoln as well.
    There was a photo of Ulysses S. Grant that he was also credited with taking
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Alexander Gardner

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  • worked with Brady then started his own studio
  • one of the first to take photos of death during war
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Timothy O’ Sullivan

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  • worked with Gardner
  • “a harvest of death”
  • photographed dead bodies
  • would stage photos for drama
  • hired to take photos for land surveys
  • more interested in showing more danger and aggressive scenes in nature
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Robert Cornelius

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  • found that using bromine shortened the time it takes to make the picture
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Walcott and Johnson

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  • they worked together to quicken the photographic process
  • used a mirror to quicken processing time and used things like skylights to quicken exposure
  • time quickened to 60 seconds
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Washington

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  • son of a former slave and an asian woman, did photography to pay his way through college
  • photographed John brown
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Presley Ball Sr.

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  • son worked with him
    abolutionist
    photographed the family of ulysses s grant
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McPherson and Oliver

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  • did medical exams with photography
  • tried to help the army
  • brought power to fighting the south
  • Famous Photo: Whipped Peter, 1863, Baton Rouge, scarred back of a man at a medical exam
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Foucault

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Wilhelm and Freidrich Langhiem

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  • First to capture the solar eclipse since the invention of photography
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Duchenne

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  • a neurologist that introduced electro-therapy
  • mechanics of human physiognomy aka le mechanism de la physiognomie humaine (first book to illustrate human emotion)
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Bertillon

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  • used to be a police officer; state to take pictures for them
  • brought anthropology to the police system
  • brought specific measurements to the police like head width
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Muybridge

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  • worked with Leland Stanford to figure out how horses run
  • Developed shudder techniques
    -brought a one horse wagon as his dark room
  • his landscape images were competing with Watkins
  • liked to use dramatic skies for photographs
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Baldus

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  • would take multiple detailed negatives to get details from all angles; stood in 10 different spots
  • would combine them to make one photo
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Le Secq

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  • painter who worked for the commission
  • known for formal composition and focused on angle of building with respect to the camera
  • gives us fanciful detail
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Negre

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  • created a faster lens
  • worked for the commission
  • photographed the working class
  • played with softness of people but promoted strong stateliness of architecture
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Le Gray

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  • worked for the commission
  • trained chemist and technician
  • credited for capturing moving leaves on trees
  • worked with commission because they wanted to show the country side before industrialization moved out too far
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Diamond

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  • made documents of patients suffering from mental disorders
  • facial information was important for doctors studyign this stuff so they could build resources for future doctors to look back on
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Bernardo

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Agassiz

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  • took photos of slaves and said that they were for a study of the human body and to compare European and African physiques but it was for slavery
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Vromen

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  • credited with a less invasive way of photographing different cultures
  • Wanted to photograph their way of life which was disappearing
  • Spent time in villages and earned Native Americans trust
  • helped diminish stereotypical distortion about native Americans and showed them as they are instead of a scene
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Curtis

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  • 1890 opened his first photography business.
  • travelled and lived with native Americans and took photos
  • people didn’t feel that he was objective with his documentation
  • some of his work is found in history books
    most comprehensive photo library
    People didn’t like how he romanticized his photo subjects
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Poolaw

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  • first Native American professional photographer
  • photographed what was happening in his tribe
  • Learned aerial photography
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DuCamp

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  • used the salted paper process from calotypes
  • took photos of Egypt during an expedition
  • solid his camera for a long gold embroidered material
  • Created one of the first travel books
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Beato

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  • partner with his brother in law and they photographed the crimean war
  • showed dead people and the horrors of the battlefield
  • first westerner to take pictures of people and places that had been closed to the west
  • photographed India, China, Japan, and Korea
  • photographed samurai
  • did panoramas
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Babbit

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  • Built the popularity for taking daguerrotypes in front of Niagra falls
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Watkins

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  • One of the first landscape photographers
  • created a series on Yosemite
  • seen as someone who would show natural representation of landscapes
  • stories that his images reached Lincoln
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Carrie Mae Weems

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  • rephotographed Agassiz photographs with a red tint and added engraved words
  • tried to give the subjects back their voices
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Morse

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  • taught Daguerre how to use the telegraph
  • photographed class from Yale
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Samuel J Miller

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photographed Fredrick Douglas

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Oscar Rejlander

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  • thought to have learned the art of photography in one afternoon
  • wanted to push the “art” of photography
  • made 30 different negatives of his photograph
  • Went through the same steps a painter would with models and sketches
  • people thought his photograph was a violation of the true nature of photography because he controlled so much of the photo
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Lady Clementina Hawarden

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  • set up studio in her own home because women could only photograph at home as a hobby
  • started to use sunlight in new ways
  • produced her own prints
  • photographed her family
  • trademark: the corners of her photos were torn from damage from being removed from photo albums
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Julia Margaret Cameron

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  • her home was considered a meeting place for people in the arts
  • liked romantic looking portraits, thought softer image made more mystery
  • worked with light for soft focus and played with light and dark shadows
  • made a glass roof chicken house into her studio
  • photographed her niece Julia Jackson
  • photographed sir John Herschel
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George Eastman

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  • pioneer in photography
  • wanted to make photography as convenient as a pencil
  • created the Kodak company in 1892
  • made brownie box camera
  • made the word Kodak
  • made a patent for the camera shutter
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