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58 comments to "The Wonderful World of Early Photography."
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Don
August 29th, 2006 at
8:52 am
While Mole and Thomas may have only taken 10 photos of soldiers in WW1, it was such a fad that I’ve seen dozens of these photos owned by the US Army.
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Jim in LA
August 29th, 2006 at
9:55 am
great story!
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dead_red_eyes
August 29th, 2006 at
11:19 am
Another great read !!!!
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oi oi savaloy
August 29th, 2006 at
12:35 pm
that was mental that.
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Mike
August 29th, 2006 at
12:43 pm
I’m wondering why you didn’t include Edgerton right off the bat. He was soo influential..if it wasn’t for him we wouldn’t even have high speed photography…
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Prashant
August 29th, 2006 at
1:51 pm
Yery interesting article, specially because i am interested in photography.
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dodgyd55
August 29th, 2006 at
2:38 pm
takes me back to first time loading film in pitch black and then developing in the dark room, ah and the impossable task of colour photography, lol cant even use red light
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Bob
August 30th, 2006 at
9:35 pm
“Photography was probably an inevitable invention - the surprise was that it took so long for it to develop”
“The development of photography was quite fast”
huh?
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dbrown
August 31st, 2006 at
9:44 am
James Black made aerial photos of Providence some months before he did those in Boston; the emulsion did not survive well, but MOMA displayed a print a couple of years ago.
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Alan
September 1st, 2006 at
3:09 am
Nice summary, but missing a very important step - the invention of teh negative, by William Henry Fox Talbot: http://www.r-cube.co.uk/fox-talbot/history.html
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Gert-Jan van den Bemd
September 2nd, 2006 at
4:56 am
Great site! Very interesting! I will tell my fellow students to come here as well
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Darby Sawchuk
September 2nd, 2006 at
12:29 pm
Thanks for the interesting article. These early inventions certainly make me appreciate all my digital gear!
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baldhead
September 2nd, 2006 at
6:06 pm
Very interesting
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yup
September 3rd, 2006 at
5:11 pm
werrd
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Doug Stych
September 3rd, 2006 at
11:21 pm
A lovely site, I am fascinated by early photography. I thought the earliest photo of a human was a silouette of an unidentified person standing in the street, taken out of a early photographers studio window? I have been unable to find it again, read it in a book years ago. Learned all sorts of things I never knew on this page, great work.
_Doug
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Carpus
September 15th, 2006 at
6:39 pm
Very nice! Thanks for the good read.
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andrea
October 6th, 2006 at
5:02 pm
Wonderful images. I’m greatful what these inventors made possible for us now.
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The Kid Loose In Todos Santos
October 10th, 2006 at
2:11 pm
I loved it… my dad emailed me the link, it’s very cool. I only wish I could write reports for school this well… did you do a lot of research? It’s very impressive!
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raquel
October 25th, 2006 at
9:43 am
thanks to your internet site we were able to work on our class projects
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bob walker
November 16th, 2006 at
2:17 am
What a great collection of pictures and stories. We do wedding photography in digital format. This site makes me appreciate just “how far we have come” in photography. Thanks for the site and info. I love it.
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Holly
November 26th, 2006 at
12:49 pm
Really intresting information. Very usefull to it helped me a lot with homework! Thanks!
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Paul Burns
December 7th, 2006 at
8:05 pm
I would like permission to post possible 2-3 of the photographs on your website and add some commentary and credit of course.
Regards,
Paul Burns -
Frank Serrao
January 10th, 2007 at
8:54 am
Fantastic research and presentation of information/pictures relative to Photo History.
Thank YOU. -
Antoinette G. Temanil
January 17th, 2007 at
2:33 am
the information and photos were great! It provides a lot of interesting information and its really nice.
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JASMINE
January 30th, 2007 at
9:27 am
THE INFORMATION PROVIDED WAS GREAT. I THOUGHT THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE ECSPECIALLY INTERESTING THOUGH. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY ONE WHO HAS A PROJECT ON PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Sami
January 31st, 2007 at
10:34 am
This article was very helpful for getting information for a school project. Thank you!
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Tim R
February 25th, 2007 at
2:24 pm
How can we improve copyright infringement for photos on the Internet
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Richard A
March 18th, 2007 at
11:07 am
Can anyone give me any information on an early photographer named M.D. Bourne of New York?
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michael
May 22nd, 2007 at
10:24 am
I am impressed with the pic of the 1st woman (eyes open-albeit) I never saw it before and also the earliest extant picture in the air………
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Andrew J. Winks
June 9th, 2007 at
11:45 pm
The FIRST colour photograph was made under the instruction of Scottish polymath James Clerk Maxwell by photographer Thomas Sutton, in 1861. It’s a picture of a tartan ribbon.
The picture you credited with being first is undoubtedly prettier, but 11 years too late to claim primacy.
Another early colour photographer of note, though decades later, was Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. The Library of Congress has an exquisite collection of his colour pictures of Czarist Russia at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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Rick
June 26th, 2007 at
5:01 pm
I’m impressed with this information ’bout the history of photography.
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Robert
August 1st, 2007 at
4:45 pm
Informative,interesting article.
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onur
September 10th, 2007 at
7:17 am
bla bla
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Rebekah Armstrong
November 19th, 2007 at
11:50 am
The article was a fascinating read! I enjoyed seeing the photographs that became the milestones in the history of photography.
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Rebekah Armstrong
November 19th, 2007 at
11:52 am
The article was a fascinating read! I enjoyed seeing some of the photographs that became milestones in the history of photography.
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Anders
November 28th, 2007 at
8:43 am
On a Swedish historical forum called forum.skalman.nu there has been a dicussion about who’s the earliest born person that’s been photographed.
One person we are sure about is the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann).
Another person we have found is Caroline Herschel (1750-1848). The pictures don’t look like photos though, but are they based on photos? (Second picture on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel and some other picture, where she’s slightly younger, which I don’t find now.) She was by the way an aunt of Sir John Frederick William Herschel who’s mentioned in the article above.
A third person is John Leland (1754-1841), but it’s unclear to us whether this is a photo or not (www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/leland.html).
Does anyone know more about this? Are there photographed persons that are born much earlier than these?
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dbrown
November 28th, 2007 at
5:16 pm
James Black photographed Providence, RI, from the air before he tried Boston. The plates didn’t come out well, but at least one survived; MOMA had a print in their “Modern Starts” show a few years ago.
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David Malinowski
November 30th, 2007 at
2:05 pm
Very nice collection of photos and historic data.
I did not see any mention of George Eastman (other than the matchbox camera) in your article. Eastman may not have been the “first” from an inventor’s list but certainly used his philantropic vision to bring photography to the people. Some of his processes are still today, the benchmark even in the digital world. The Geoge Eastman House is a must see if one is ever in the Rochester, NY area.
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Rob
December 14th, 2007 at
11:25 am
Great article on the histoy of photography. Wanted to let you know about the site http://www.phillyhistory.org The city of philadelphia is putting their whole archive online for people to see. The city of philadelphia had some great photographers who documented the city in an amazing way. Some of the images that we are publishing in the fine art collection would remain you of Atget. Check them out. Your site celebrates the work of so many great photographes.
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Jim Mackay
December 29th, 2007 at
11:51 am
Has anyone heard of Hans(?) Earl or Carl who had photographs published by the Berlin Photographic Company in 1903? Pet dogs seem to be his theme.
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Mark Lund
January 14th, 2008 at
10:07 pm
One overlooked part of this history of Photography is the Panoramic and Lenticular imaging done.
Cirkut, Panoram, Orbit, Alt-Vista for Panoramic. Vari-Vue amongst others for the Lenticular side of Popular/novelty imaging.Also processes to make such early images.
Daguerreotype, Wet Collodion, Bromoil, Platnium, Gum Bichromate and Photogravure; color process: Autochrome ( Lumere Brothers), Kodachrome, Heliochrome.
There is some for ya!
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Mark
February 14th, 2008 at
7:04 pm
Anyone else notice the horse and rider have a shadow? It says it was taken on a race track, I don’t think the race track would have such a wall for the shadow to cast on.
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Carl
March 13th, 2008 at
9:56 pm
They’re taken on a racetrack but then are retraced and coloured onto a disc which spun around to show the movement.
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Xof
March 13th, 2008 at
11:26 pm
Great article! I think the world’s most expensive photograph is from Richard Prince for $3,401,000 in 2007
http://digitalfreak.net/2008/01/18/richard-prince-print-sets-auction-r ecord-for-photography-take-2/ -
Chuck
March 14th, 2008 at
1:20 am
Awesome article. It was funny that this was on digg today. I was just reading about the history of photography in Uncle John’s Bathroom reader. Great books.
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Josiah
March 14th, 2008 at
1:24 am
Holy crap this is an awesome post. One second I’m excited about snapping picture with my iPhone, the next I’m kicked in the crotch by history.
Interwebnet ftw.
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Eswar
March 14th, 2008 at
2:10 am
well done … i never knew more than 99% of what’s in here …
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Eric
March 14th, 2008 at
8:54 am
Great site. You might want to mention some early war photos, like those of the US civil war.
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Chris Larson
March 14th, 2008 at
9:57 am
posted your list on listdid.com — thanks, Chris
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Tyler
March 14th, 2008 at
11:22 am
Really good article. I learned more than I will ever need to know. Dugg it.
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Pee-Wee
March 14th, 2008 at
12:13 pm
The info on the horse and rider is incorrect, as Mark said above. They were taken on a treadmill, not on a racetrack. In fact, if you watch the clip, you can even see the treadmill come into view. There are enough records of this on the internet, in books, in documentaries, etc, etc. Carl, in denying this above, is wrong.
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Paulville
March 14th, 2008 at
4:23 pm
I’m afraid Carl is right. Can you just imagine a horse at full gallop on a treadmill? It’s hard enough for a human to do it!
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Tim
March 14th, 2008 at
4:29 pm
The Wikipedia article you reference for Robert Cornelius only says he was the son of a Dutch immigrant which would imply he was born in Philadelphia. Do you have another source that says this was not the case? If Cornelius was the Philadelphia-born son of an immigrant why not just call him a Philadelphia photographer?
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ester abuel
March 14th, 2008 at
10:11 pm
amazing
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José L. Díaz
March 26th, 2008 at
10:07 pm
Great job!! the photography is science and for the same reason an art, the techniques or the technology itself are an important part of the modern industrial history and fine art…you must to o an second part about the 35mm history with fisrst Oskar Barnak camera or the SLR revolution, the german photo industry rise and decline, the japanesse assault to the market, the most legendary cameras and lenses as Leitz, Carl Zeiss, Pentacon, Nikon, Canon, Exacta, Praktica…too much on a short space of time…
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unkown
March 30th, 2008 at
4:35 am
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS.
ALL THIS IS VERY USEFULL !!
Been looking for this infomation on 100’s of different websites and most of it is right here.
CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH !!!
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Photography Classes
May 28th, 2008 at
4:06 pm
Very cool. Currently take a photo course at Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts. Just shared your post with my entire class. Thanks!
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el tuercas
May 30th, 2008 at
9:17 pm
hi there love the post… but on the first under water photography the guy holds the plate upside down is he at your left or at our right thats what i didnt understand compleatly apart from that every thing great greets from the other side of the mirror… of an SRL
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