1841-Voigtlander (German) builds all metal camera.

 

1841-Henry Fox-Talbot introduces Calotype paper negative process.

 

1842-Carl Stelzner (German) makes “news” photo of Hamburg fire.

 

1842-THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS founded.

 

1843-using a photograph as an aid, D.O. Hill (English) paints “THE DISRUPTION OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND”.

 

1844-Henry Fox-Talbot (English) publishes “PENCIL OF NATURE” using photographs.

 

1845-David Octavius Hill (English) makes interpretive photo portraits.

 

1848-Becquerel (French) records color spectrum on a layer of silver chloride.

 

1849- Maxime DuCamp (French) makes “travel” photos of the Middle East.

 

1849-”THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF  PHOTOGRAPHY” by Henry Snelling  published in America.

 

1850-cameras constructed using bellows allows swings and tilts.

 

A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY

OF PHOTOGRAPHY

1850-”THE DAGUERREIAN JOURNAL” later known as “HUMPHREY’s JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY” published in New York by S.D. Humphrey (USA)

 

1850-Louis-D’esire’ Blanquart-Evrard introduces Albumen printing process.

 

1850-Frederick Scott Archer (English) and Peter W. Fry (English) introduce Ambrotype printing process.

 

1851-Beatley Woodbury (English) and James Page (English) photograph Australia.

 

1851-Frederick Scott Archer (English) introduces collodion  “wet plate” photo process.

 

1851-John Adams Whipple (USA) and William Cranch Bond (USA) make Daguerreotypes of the Moon.

 

1852-Hurbert Watkins (English) makes 25X micrographs.

 

1853-Adolphe Alexandre Martin (French)

introduces and describes Ferrotype “instant” (short exposure time) dry plate photo process also known as Tintypes.

 

1853-Antoine Francois Jean Claudet (French) photographs Queen Victoria.

 

1853– Royal Photographic Society founded by Roger Fenton (English)

 

1854-Andre’ Adolphe Eugene Disd’er (French) patents “Carte-de-Viste”  (picture postcard)

 

1854-Governor of Bristol Gaol, James Anthony Gardiner (English), commissions photographs of all

inmates for identification.

 

1854-THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY begins publication and still continues.

 

1854-Thomas Keith (Scott) makes photo montage.

 

1855-A MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMISTRY by Thomas Frederick Hardwich (English) is published.

 

1855-Franz Hanfstaengl (German) displays Photographs before and after retouching at Exposition Universelle in Paris.

 

1855-Roger Fenton (English) photographs in the Crimea.

 

1856-John Benjamin Dancer (English) builds