Sample
Report
History
and Technical Issues of Early Photographic Processes
Web Sites
The Beginnings of Photography
http://www.kbnet.co.uk/rleggat/photo/history/beginnin.htm
Nineteenth Century Photography:
Stereoscopic Photography. Printing on Albumenized Paper.
http://www.cprr.com/Museum/Photography.html
A History of Photography From Its
Beginnings till the 1920’s by Robert Leggat
http://host1.kbnet.co.uk/rleggat/photo/index.htm
The Daguerreian Society
http://www.daguerre.org/home.html
The Social Construction of the
American Daguerreotype Portrait: 1839-1860
http://www.users.interport.net/~ben42/daguerre/index.html
Library of Congress Web Site
titled America’s First Look Into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views
1839-1864.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
Books
History of Photography: A Guide to
Research
Provided by Rochester Institute of
Technology, a list of recommend primary and secondary source materials for the
study of photographic history. http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/histphoto.html
Macdonald, Gus. Camera: a
Victorian Eyewitness: A History of Photography: 1826 – 1913. Viking Press.
1979 ISBN 0-670-20056-5 Out of Print
Gilbert, George. Photography:
The Early Years: A Historical Guide for Collectors. Harper & Row 1980
ISBN 0-06-011497-5 Out of Print
Langford, Michael. The Story of
Photography: From Its Beginnings to the Present Day. Focal Press. 1980.
ISBN 0-240-51056-9.
1997 revised edition 0240514831. In print
Newhall, Beaumont. The History
of Photography: from 1839 to the Present.
Little, Brown and Company. 1982 rev ed.
ISBN 0-87070-380-3. In Print.
Crawford, William. The Keepers
of Light: A History & Working Guide to Early Photographic Processes.
Morgan & Morgan. 1979. ISBN 87100-158-6 In print. http://city-gallery.com/books/review/keepers_of_light.html.
Barger, M. Susan and White,
William B. The
Daguerreotype: Nineteenth Century Technology and Modern Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN 0801864585
In print
Gernsheim, Helmut A Concise
History of Photography, 3rd ed. Dover, 1986. ISBN:
0486251284 In Print
Lovell, Ronald P.; Zwahlen, Fred
C.; and Folts, James A. Two Centuries
of Shadow Catchers: A History of Photography. Delmar, 1995. Out
of Print
Swedlund,
Charles. Photography:
a Handbook of History, Materials, and Processes. Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1981. ISBN: 0030566991 In print
Tissandier,
Gaston. A History and
Handbook of Photography. Ayer, 1991. $27.95. ISBN:
0405049439. In print.
Articles
19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY
EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY
By Lucille Grant
Antiques & Collecting
Magazine: Oct99, Vol. 104 Issue 8, p28,
5p, 11bw.
Covers the history of
photography including the development of the camera and the various processes
used to develop prints such as the daguerreotype, calotype, collodion, and
cyanotype. Also, includes the early use of studio portraits and famous studio
photographers of that era.
DAGUERRE
IN THE HEART
By Tim
Crothers
Sports Illustrated, Winter 2000, Vol. 92 Issue 8,
p115, 4p, 10c.
Two photographers for Sports
Illustrated Magazine, with a fascination for the technique of 3-D stereoscopic
photography, use the process for a modern day shoot. Covers the history and
development of three-dimensional photography from 1832 to its present day
usage.
125 YEARS OF POPULAR SCIENCE
PHOTOGRAPHY – “Technology that recorded the
moment takes its place in history”
Edited by: GUN JAN SINHA
Popular Science, Nov97, Vol. 251 Issue 5, p10, 2p,
6c, 4bw.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES
“Article by courtesy of the Johannesburg Art Gallery where a permanent exhibition illustrating the wide range of printing techniques may be viewed.”
Lantern: Autumn95, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p73, 3p,
4bw.
An outline of the various
photographic processes invented in Europe and the United States, how the
process worked and how each one was used.
By Nicole Lucas and Jean Beauchesne
American Photo, Mar/Apr99, Vol. 10
Issue 2, p50, 1/3p, 1bw
The discovery made in France in1989
of an 1837 photograph taken by Daguerre believed to be the first photograph of
a person.
By Dennis Karwatka
Tech
Directions, Feb99, Vol. 58 Issue 7, p8, 2/3p, 1bw
A biography
and history of Daguerre, his discovery is the process, and his association with
Joseph Niece.