Joseph Nicephore Niepce - First Photo 1827, 8 hour exposure
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre - January 7, 1939 Announces Daguerreotype process to French Acadamy of Sciences. One of a kind, highly detailed photo reproduction.
William Henry Fox Talbot - 1820's and 1830's experiments with paper sensitized with salts and silver. Eventually develops a paper negative process, later called Calotype. Reproducable, but not the quality of Daguerreotype.
Frederick Scott Archer - 1851 - Invented Wet-Plate Collodian Negatives. Allowed multiple prints that were sharp. Had to be prepared just before exposure and developed just after exposure.
Blanquart-Evrard 1850 - Conceives idea of using albumen (egg whites) to support print emulsion.
Maxime Du Camp - Wet-plate collodion, The Sphinx and Pyramids, 1851.
Francis Frith - The Pyramids, 1853.
Bisson Brothers - French Alps, 1860
Samuel Bourne - India, 1860s
Francis Frith - Great Wall of China, 1860
Felix Beato - Japan, 1862
Carleton Watkins - Yosemite Valley, 1872
Alexander Gardner - Kansas, 1867
William Henry Jackson with his camera, 1877
William Henry Jackson, Yellowstone, 1873
William Henry Jackson, Colorado, 1880
Fenton, Crimean War, 1854 “Valley of the shadow of war”
Matthew Bradey, Civil War
Alexander Gardner, “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter”, 1863
Alexander Gardner, “A Sharpshooters Last Step”, 1863
Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs Herbert Duckworth, 1872
Julia Margaret Cameron, Ellen Terry at 16, 1864
Julia Margaret Cameron, Sir John Herschel, 1865
Julia Margaret Cameron, Charles Darwin, 1868
Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1865
Nadar - Sarah Bernhardt c. 1864
Dunmore and Critcherson - The Arctic Circle
Muybridge - Stopping Motion
The Kodak, 1888