October 2024
Beginner
380 pages
14h 58m
English
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Image Credits
Unless noted with the image or stated below, all images, diagrams, drawings, and other illustrations are by the author. The following images are in the Public Domain or licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CCO) License
1545—Camera Obscura
1727—Johann Heinrich Schulze, engraving
1777—Carl W. Scheele
1795—Thomas Wedgewood
1816—J.N. Niépce, Daguerreotypist unknown
1819—Sir John Herschel, by Julia Cameron
1822—Louis Daguerre, photographer unknown
1827—The first permanent photograph, by J.N. Niépce
1834—Fox Talbot, photographer unknown.
1838—Daguerreotype showing people
1839—Daguerreotype of Hippolyte Bayard
1840—Joseph Petzval—1854 drawing by Adolf Duathage
1840—Patent diagram
1843—Photogram of algae, by Anna Atkins, c. 1843 ...
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