Most of the earliest photographs were not printed on paper, but on sheets of metal or glass. These photographs capture extraordinary details, and give us a glimpse of life in the 19th century.
There are many examples of photographic portraits that give an incredibly detailed view of fashion, personal adornment, and interior design. While the images themselves are beautiful, the photographic processes used to create the images are equally fascinating.
Here below is an amazing photo collection that shows the early days of photography in the 1840s and 1850s.
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| Photography in the 1840s and 1850s |
There are many examples of photographic portraits that give an incredibly detailed view of fashion, personal adornment, and interior design. While the images themselves are beautiful, the photographic processes used to create the images are equally fascinating.
Here below is an amazing photo collection that shows the early days of photography in the 1840s and 1850s.
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| The leaves, 1840 |
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| By William Henry Fox Talbot, 1842 |
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| By Carl Gustav Oehme, 1845 |
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| By Robert Hunt, 1845 |
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| By Calvert Richard Jones, 1846 |
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| By Humbert de Molard, 1847 |
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| Louis Dodier, prisoner, 1847 |
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| Blacksmiths, 1850 |
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| By Baron Louis Adolphe Humbert, 1850 |
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| By Louis Robert, 1850 |
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| Drinking and smoking, 1850 |
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| In mourning, 1850 |
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| By Félix Teynard, 1851 |
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| By Charles Nègre, 1852 |
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| By Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq, 1852 |
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| By Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq, 1852 |
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| By John McCosh, 1852 |
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| By Auguste Salzmann, 1854 |
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| By Robert Henry Cheney, 1854 |
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| By Arthur Backhouse, 1855 |
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| By Camille Silvy, 1855 |
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| By Giacomo Caneva, 1855 |
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| Man with horse, 1855 |
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| Men at the dam, 1855 |
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| Waterfall, 1855 |
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| By Henry White, 1856 |
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| Paris floods, 1856 |
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| By Édouard-Denis Baldus, 1857 |
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| By Roger Fenton, 1858 |
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| By Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1859 |
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Technically, the 1840 pic of the leaves is not a photograph. It is a calotype, which is comparable more to a Xerox than a photo. No camera was involved, the leaves were simply laid directly on to photographic paper and exposed to the sun. The paper was then given a bath in gallic acid to bring the image out, and then regular water to fix the image. That was the whole process. No camera, no lenses, no dark room, which is why direct contact imaging is technically considered print-making rather than actual photography.
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