Frederick Scott Archer

Frederick Scott Archer

male, deceased (1857)
Frederick Scott Archer (1813-1857) invented the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion. He was born in Bishop's...
Gustave Le Gray

Gustave Le Gray

male, deceased (1884)
Gustave Le Gray is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new...
Richard Leach Maddox

Richard Leach Maddox

male, deceased (1902)
Richard Leach Maddox was an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin negative plates for photography in 1871. The 'wet...
Henry Peach Robinson

Henry Peach Robinson

male, deceased (1901)
Henry Peach Robinson (b. Ludlow July 9,1830 - d. February 21, 1901) was a British pioneer Pictorialist photographer who made combination prints...

Louis-Nicolas Ménard

male, deceased (1901)
Louis-Nicolas Ménard was a French man of letters also known for his discovery of collodion. He was born in Paris. His versatile genius occupied i...
Francis Frith

Francis Frith

male, deceased (1898)
Francis Frith was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom. Frith was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire,...
Wilbert Bridgemington Shasterbury

Wilbert Bridgemington Shasterbury

male, deceased (1904)
Wilbert Bridgemington Shasterbury, 6th Lord of Shropshire (1816-1904) was an English patron and conservative, known for his strict adherence to...
Louis-Auguste Bisson

Louis-Auguste Bisson

deceased (1876)
Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814-1876) was a 19th century French photographer. Bisson opened a photographic studio in early 1841. Soon after, his brother...

Maeda Genzō

male, deceased (1906)
Maeda Genzō (1831 - 1906) was a Japanese photographer from northern Kyūshū. In Nagasaki he studied photography under Jan Karel van den Broek and J....

Horie Kuwajirō

male, deceased (1866)
Horie Kuwajirō (1831 - 1866) was an early Japanese photographer and science writer. Horie studied rangaku, specifically chemistry, at the Kaigun D...