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Antoine Claudet (1797-1867)
French born Antoine Francois Jean Claudet enjoyed a successful business career, first in banking and later in glass manufacturing. In 1829 he moved to London in order to expand the glass-making business. In 1839 he moved back to Paris to investigate the new daguerreotype photographic process with its inventor, fellow Frenchman Jacques Louis Mande Daguerre, who had just announced his discovery to the world. The French government soon purchased Daguerre’s patent [...] Click here to continue reading.
Royal A. Carlock
Born on the banks of the Wabash in southern Indiana, little is known of Royal Carlock’s early life. We do know he was an honorably discharged World War I veteran who served in Europe. Upon his discharge from the Army in 1918, he decided to remain in Washington D.C. Fascinated by the architecture and national treasures found in our nation’s capital, Carlock focused his photographic and hand-coloring skills on reproducing and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Calotype
The Calotype is a photograph made from a paper negative, The original process for making paper negatives in the camera was patented by the Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841.
The basic process employed any stout paper brushed over with a solution of silver iodide and potassium iodide and allowed to dry. Before use, the paper was treated with a solution consisting of silver nitrate, acetic acid and gallic acid crystals. The [...] Click here to continue reading.
Bill Brandt (English, 1904 to 1983)
Bill Brandt was born into a family with a predilection for the arts. After a brief apprenticeship with a Viennese studio photographer, Brandt went to Paris and was introduced to Surrealism by his short-term employer, Man Ray. In 1931, Brandt was back in England, focusing on photojournalism. He photographed his British compatriots showing the great divides of the class structure. He began using the flash and his prints [...] Click here to continue reading.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904 to 1971)
Margaret Bourke-White contributed many things to the world of photography. She was a woman, doing a man’s job, in a man’s world, from the foundries of Cleveland to the battlefields in World War II. She was an original staff photographer for two of the most prominent magazines of her day, Fortune and Life. She led a life full of adventure, pioneering a new art form: photojournalism. Margaret Bourke-White was, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Autochromes
The autochrome was the world’s first practical color photography process, invented in 1904 by the brothers August (1862 to 1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864 to 1948). Their father ran a successful photographic business in Lyon, France and the pair began working with him in the early 1870′s. In 1882 they started their own business making and selling dry plates using a process that Louis had invented and by the early 1890′s they had [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ambrotype Photograhic Images
In 1851 the Englishman Frederick Scott Archer (1813 to 1857) invented the wet collodion process or ambrotype, as it is commonly known. Unlike the daguerreotype process that was expensive and time consuming, ambrotypes could be produced in a matter of seconds with great clarity and at a fraction of the price of daguerreotypes.
Technical Development:
The ambrotype process involved the use of a glass plate as a base medium that [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry W. Andrews
Henry W. Andrews was born in New York State in 1829. By 1851 at the age of 22, he is noted as a merchant, living in the boarding house of Joseph Fuller, a carpenter in Auburn, NY. By 1867-68, the Cayuga, New York directory lists Andrews associated with the firm Andrews and Ball. He married Frances V. Chase, and by the 1870 census, Andrews, still listed as a merchant, had a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Campaign of 1877
Chief Joseph, a Nez Perce leader, known to his people as Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt or Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain (1840-1904), constantly appealed to the federal government to return his people to their ancestral homelands and not to a distant reservation in Idaho. His band is known for their brilliant military retreat, one that lasted over three months until their eventual surrender to the US.
The Nez [...] Click here to continue reading.
Isaiah West Taber – American Photographer 1830 to 1912
Isaiah West Taber, 1830-1912, first came to California during the Gold Rush, returned to his native New Bedford in 1854, and moved back to California ten years later. After working with Bradley and Rulofson and other San Francisco photographers, he opened his own business around 1875. Besides being an accomplished photographer in his own right, he also published photographs taken by others, most notably Yosemite [...] Click here to continue reading.
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