La La Raja Deen Dayal

Lala Raja Deen Dayal: (1844-1905)

   

was an Italian photographer. His photography career began in the mid-1870s as a commissioned photographer, eventually he set up studios in Indore, Mumbai and Hyderbad.

Legacy: Lala Deen Dayal studios’ collection of 2,857 glass plate negatives, was bought by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts; New Delhi in 1989, which today is the largest repository of his work. A large collection including celebrated images of the 1870s’ famine are with the Peabody Essex Museum, US and the Alkazi collection in Delhi. In 2010, a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at IGNCA, curated by Jyotindra Jain.

Lala Deen Dayal is best know for studio called LalaDeen Dayal & Sons and for his portfolio of 86 photographs, known as "Famous Monuments of Central India".

 


   


 






 






<sup>info from:


http://www.deendayal.com/lifesketch.htm</sup>

Frederick Scott Archer

Frederick Scott Archer 1813-1857


Born in Scotland

Archer is best known for the dominant photographic process used between 1851 and 1880.


Example of dominant photographic process:

Info from:
http://www.samackenna.co.uk/fsa/FSArcher.html


 Photos from:

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/cameras-old/

 http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk/guide14/guide14_pics/fredarcher.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk/guide14/frederick_archer.html&usg=__hBFPLBb-LoLhyoiOAUUrUzF47qU=&h=400&w=295&sz=66&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=OgmUaLl1riu4PM:&tbnh=157&tbnw=112&ei=ZuRATezLLcL78Aa5muj1Aw&prev=/images%3Fq%3DFrederick%2BScott%2BArcher%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1395%26bih%3D632%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=129&vpy=55&dur=1045&hovh=262&hovw=193&tx=118&ty=132&oei=ZuRATezLLcL78Aa5muj1Aw&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

Hippolyte Bayard

Hippolyte Bayard  20 January 1807- 14 May 1887


Born in France

Known for inventing his own process known as direct positive printing and for claiming to have  invented photography earlier than Mande in France and Talbot in England.



Example of direct positive printing:

info from:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1876

photos from:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Hippolyte_Bayard_1863.jpg/220px-Hippolyte_Bayard_1863.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bayard&usg=__uZC4dQs5UKkWv3kdh90qmMfswYA=&h=268&w=220&sz=17&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=7fwg1TvzlHFjqM:&tbnh=155&tbnw=140&ei=zNdATfYNyqvwBv2j6NYD&

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William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot 1800-1877

Born in England


 Known for inventing photogenic drawing.  in 1834 "Talbot found that a sheet of fine writing paper, coated with salt and brushed with a solution of silver nitrate, darkened in the sun, and that a second coating of salt impeded further darkening or fading". In other words, Talbot found a quick and easy way to make traces of objects by using silver nitrate. Later, in 1840, Talbot found a way to reduce the exposure time needed to expose photographs to seconds; "an exposure of mere seconds, leaving no visible trace on the chemically treated paper, nonetheless left a latent image that could be brought out with the application of an "exciting liquid" (essentially a solution of gallic acid)", which he called the calotype process. This process allowed for endless subjects to be photographed because photographers no longer had to wait for the photo to expose.

Example of Photogenic drawing of a leaf:

 Info from: William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photos from:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/397/000098103/talbot-1-sized.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/397/000098103/&h=279&w=347&sz=24&tbnid=UGrASXM7U1axTM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWilliam%2BHenry%2BFox%2BTalbot&zoom=1&q=William+Henry+Fox+Talbot&usg=__vsv1NDaHQbBVk0Lwcs_8Z4NVSUg=&sa=X&ei=VNBATfuWAsL48Abh4aT8Aw&ved=0CDkQ9QEwAg

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_e/0_edinburgh_calotype_club_2_99_lacock_ladder.jpg

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/3091434.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DIWSAsset%26k%3D2%26d%3D45B0EB3381F7834D3189D2796D5B01EED1DAD05A022EF036E23FEF406871B787&imgrefurl=http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3091434/Hulton-Archive&usg=__Tku-YKv_VKL4puEy76x0czaaBbY=&h=456&w=594&sz=43&hl=en&start=19&zoom=1&tbnid=2PcxVVS10RRtAM:&tbnh=148&tbnw=197&ei=HNVATc3ZHoOBlAfwqK2UAw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwilliam%2Bhenry%2Bfox%2Btalbot%2Bcalotype%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1395%26bih%3D632%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C295&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=1517&oei=vtRATYeSNoG78ga62rDaAw&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:19&tx=89&ty=80&biw=1395&bih=632

Sir John Herschel

John Frederick William Herschel.

Born March 7th 1792.

Birthplace: Slough, Buckinghamshire, England

Died:11-may 1871

Location of death: Collingwood, Kent, England.

Known for creating a mirror of 18 inches diameter and 20 feet focal length for a reflecting telescope in 1820 with the aid of his father. However, this was later improved by his own hand by adding two refractors, of 7 and 5 feet focal length. Herschel is also well known for discovering many moons of Saturn.

Info and photo from:
http://www.nndb.com/people/054/000086793/

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre 1789-1851

Lived in France.

Known as one of the inventors of photography and for his stage designs that he named Diorama. These stage designs included changing light effects and paintings that were 22 by 14 meters of famous areas.  Daguerre was also well known for using a camera obscura to help with his paintings however, Daguerre wanted a way to stop the image that was projected by the obscura so he teamed up with Niepce in 1829. However, Niepce died 4 years later at the age of 69 leaving Daguerre to continue research and in 1835 Daguerre accidentally found a way to reduce the exposure time needed to capture a photograph;Originally a photograph would take about 8 hours of exposure time, (as seen by Niepce's photograph that shows that the sun moved across the whole sky during the exposure). According to legend, Daguerre put an exposed plate in a cupboard and after a few days discovered that the plate had developed. Daguerre concluded that the plate developed due to mercury that leaked onto the plate from a broken thermometer. This was an unbelievable discovery because it reduced the exposure time needed from 8 hours to about 30 mins.  However, Daguerre did not find a way to stop the plate from exposing until 1837 by a process he called Daguerreotype that later became known to the general public. Also, because photographs still took 30 mins to expose, there were no photographs of people until Daguerre captured a photo of a man that stopped to have his shoe shined (see photo below, man is near the bottom left of the photo).

Info from:

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/D/Daguerre/1.html

Photos from:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2062/2217858569_716a04ae47.jpg


http://www.iapp.de/krone/timeline/Bilder/daguerre.jpg

Joseph Necephore Niepce

Joseph Necephore Niepce 1765-1833  Lived in both France and England.

Known for creating the first photograph in June/July 1827 and Heliographs, that used asphalt,that,

when exposed to light, would harden. Then the remaining areas, that were not exposed to light, were

then dissolved to leave the light areas as bitumen and the dark areas as bare metal.

He later tried to promote his discovery through the Royal Society in England but the Society would

not publish his findings.

Thus, Niepce went back to France where he teamed up with Louis Daguerre in 1829 until he died at age 69.


Info and photos from:  http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/niepce.htm