History of photography - Stereoscopic, Daguerreotype, Calotype

history of photography

Table of Contents

Introduction
General considerations
Inventing the medium
- Antecedents
- Early experiments
  - Heliography
  - Daguerreotype
  - Photogenic drawing
- Early views of the medium’s potential
Photography’s early evolution, c. 1840–c. 1900
- The revolution of technique
  - Development of the daguerreotype
  - Development of the calotype
  - Development of stereoscopic photography
  - Development of the wet collodion process
  - Development of the dry plate
  - Photography of movement
  - Early attempts at colour
- Establishing genres
  - Portraiture
  - Photojournalism
  - Documentary photography
    - Landscape and architectural documentation
    - Social documentation
- Photography as art
  - Early developments
  - Naturalistic photography
  - Pictorialism and the Linked Ring
Perfecting the medium, c. 1900–c. 1945
- The Photo-Secession
- The New Objectivity
- Experimental approaches
- Documentary photography
- Photojournalism
- Colour photography
Photography c. 1945 to the 21st century
- Postwar developments
- Developments from the 1970s to the 1990s
- Into the 21st century: the digital age

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Stereoscopic photographic views (stereographs) were immensely popular in the United States and Europe from about the mid-1850s through the early years of the 20th century. First described in 1832 by English physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone, stereoscopy was improved by Sir David Brewster in 1849. The production of the stereograph entailed making two images of the same subject, usually with a camera with two lenses placed 2.5 inches (6 cm) apart to simulate the position of the human eyes, and then mounting the positive prints side by side laterally on a stiff backing. Brewster devised a stereoscope through which the finished ...(100 of 14963 words)

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