Conceptually, and in many ways, the photographic technique employed by Adamson and Hill was very similar to that still in use today. A negative was exposed in the camera, developed in a dark room and ...

There is virtually no unit cost and little effort in taking a picture with a digital camera, but when each shot meant expense and concentrated exertion, photographers picked their subjects with care.

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William Henry Fox Talbot revolutionised photography in Britain. Talbot was an expert in many fields including chemistry and optics – the study of light and lenses. He invented the first photographic ...

Benjamin Brecknell Turner took up paper negative ('Calotype' or 'Talbotype') photography in 1849 with a licence from its inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 – 77). Talbot was a photography pioneer ...

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David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, “Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hill” (1843–47), calotype print (courtesy Scottish National Portrait Gallery) Although Hill ...

Sir William Henry Fox Talbot captured the first photographic negative from a window at his Lacock, Wiltshire home in 1835. The Calotype process would go on to revolutionise the field of photography, ...

The history of photography has never followed a straight continuum. Since before the time of Vermeer, artists and scientists have labored at different times and in different locations around the globe ...