Photography: the invention and continuation of

1. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process in France. The daguerrotype process was a way of producing an only positive image. The invention of the daguerrotype was announced on August 19, 1839. It had a sliding-box design where the focus would be controlled by the position of a small box within a larger box with a lens on the front. They were very popular until the late 1850's when the ambrotype was invented and made the daguerrotype seem inefficient.

   
          

2. Albumen prints are photographic prints in which a finely divided gold and silver image foes in a matrix of egg white. The paper was the most used photographic paper around 1855 and up until 1895. It was still used by some photographers until the 1920's. The time when Albumen was in it's prime was when photography started to have a lot of influence in society and really created a culture in some communities.

     

         

3.The stereograph and "stereography" was a way of making a picture look three dimensional.  Stereographs were popular during the 1870's and 80's.

4. A Carte de viste is a type of picture that was popular in the 1850's and 60's. They were small "calling cards" that could easily be mailed and shared. They were mostly used for portraits or pictures of couples together.

Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardener are famous for photographs from the American civil war. In the beginning of the war, Gardener would take pictures and send the negatives to Brady, but by the end of the war, the two were competing to get the shot of the war.

       

 above are matthew Brady's photograph's and bellow are Alexander Gardener's.