Early photography

A period when photographic practitioners refined its technological and chemical components and diversified its applications.

Dates

c. 1826–85

Places

Europe > Western Europe > England
North America > United States

Basics Works of Art Artists Curated Guides

Early photography

A period when photographic practitioners refined its technological and chemical components and diversified its applications.

Dates

c. 1826–85

Places

Europe > Western Europe > England
North America > United States

Basics Works of Art Artists Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

Becoming modern in 19th-century Europe, an introduction

Early photography: Niépce, Talbot, and Muybridge

Peaks and perils: The life of Carleton Watkins

Orientalism

Works of Art

Writing box with utensils, decorated with photographs of Nasir a-Din Shah, his court, and views of Paris and Tehran, Iran

1860–65

Roger Fenton photographs of the Crimean War

1855

Augustus Washington, John Brown

c. 1846–47

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras

c. 1826–27

John Whipple, William Bond, and George Bond, The Moon, No. 37

1851

Photograph of Abdülhamid II

1869

Édouard Baldus, Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles

1851

Eadweard Muybridge, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion
Getty Conversations

1878–79; printed 1881

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$John Whipple, William Bond, and George Bond, The Moon, No. 37, 1851. Daguerreotype made through Great Refractor Equatorial Mount Telescope, Harvard College Observatory. Case size 4 ½ x 3 ¼ in. Public Domain/Creative Commons.$

John Whipple, William Bond, and George Bond, The Moon, No. 37, 1851. Daguerreotype made through Great Refractor Equatorial Mount Telescope, Harvard College Observatory. Case size 4 ½ x 3 ¼ in. Public Domain/Creative Commons.

Abdullah Frères (photography studio)

Robert Adamson

Frederick Scott Archer

François-Edmond Fortier