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Collodion process

The sensitivity of silver halides to light is the underlying principle behind most types of 19th century photographic processes (Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Calotypes that use paper negatives, and wet and dry plates) as well as modern 20th century photographic film processes.


Alenka Puhar

Her grandfather was the photographer and inventor Janez Puhar, who invented glass photography.

Archer Glacier

It was first charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, 1897–99, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Frederick Scott Archer, an English architect who in 1849 invented the wet collodion process of photography, the first practical process on glass.

Barret Oliver

Later Oliver became a printer and photographer specializing in nineteenth century processes such as collodion and Woodburytype.

Microphotograph

Dancer perfected his reduction procedures with Frederick Scott Archer’s wet collodion process, developed in 1850–51, but he dismissed his decades-long work on microphotographs as a personal hobby, and did not document his procedures.


see also

Fred Archer

Frederick Scott Archer (1813–1857), inventor of the photographic collodion process