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Article: Early photography.(Current and coming)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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No one really knows the exact date when photography was invented. But once the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre announced his discovery of the daguerreotype in 1839, it compelled others who had been experimenting in the same areas to come forward, if even a bit prematurely, in order to make their discoveries known. One of these was the Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot, who had devised a product he named the "photogenic drawing" as early as 1834. His process, which could be carried out with or without a camera, called for chemically sensitized paper that when exposed to light became a negative from which positive prints could be made in multiples. Initially it ...