Introduction to the History of Photography

" Originally trained as a painter, engraver, and illustrator, Charles Marville ( b. 1816 Paris, d. 1879) became known as a landscape and architecture photographer. He traveled to Italy, Germany, and Algeria and used both paper and glass plate negatives. In the late 1850s the city of Paris commissioned Marville to document the ancient quarters of the city before encroaching urban modernization changed them forever. He photographed renovations and new construction, including the new Paris Opéra. Marville was also commissioned by the Musée du Louvre to make reproductions of artworks in their collection. He was named official photographer of Paris in 1862. " source: GETTY Edu   Charles Marville rue de Constantine, Paris, 1865   Charles Marville Paris 13e Arrondisment c. 1865 Charles Marville rue de la Ferronnerie, Paris c. 1865   Charles Marville Hotel de Ville 1871 after the combats of the Commune of Paris   Charles Marville Ingres in his d...

Progress of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 1854 Philip Henry Delamotte (British, 1820–1889); Henry Negretti (British, born Italy, 1818–1879) Albumen silver prints Source: Philip Henry Delamotte: Progress of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (52.639) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Engraving of the first photograph of the Pathenon. Taken by Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière in 1839. Published in Excursions daguériennes by Noël Paymal Lerebours in 1841   source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Parthenon_1839.jpg   Niagara. Chute Du Fer a Cheval   from Excursions daguerriennes: vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe,  published by Lerebours, Nöel-Marie-Paymal  1840 engraving from daguerreotype 26.0 x 73.5 cm.  source: Daguerreotypomania GEH "The Excursions Daguerriennes, représentant les vues et les monuments les plus remarquables du globe, [Daguerreian Travels, representing the most remarkable views and monuments in the world] was published in Paris by Noël-Marie Paymal Lerebours between 1841 and 1864. The volumes were sold by subscription and in the end contained more than one hundred views of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East shot between 1839 and 1844. Pattinson's view of t...

In the mid 1800s, the documentary powers of photography were applied in systematic ways to works of art and architecture by photographers such as James Anderson, Adolphe Braun, the Alinari brothers, Roger Fenton and others. Soon, large photography enterprises developed for the publication of art reproductions. The photographer took over, not without protest initially, the market of reproductions that belonged to printmakers and painters. James Anderson (British, 1813 - 1877) Colossal bust of Antinous from the Villa Adriana, near Tivoli. James Anderson Rome, Colosseum and Arch of Costantin landscape c. 1860, Albumen print 42.2 x 21.5 cm James Anderson L'Arco di Tito [Rome] c. 1853 Wet-collodion-glass-negative 25.5 x 18.6 cm (10 x 7.5 ) James Anderson - Roman Forum James Anderson - Arch of Constantine, Rome, c. 1858 James Anderson - Venetian Palace, c. 1870s Comte Frédéric Flachéron Rome, The Ara Coeli and the Dioscuri of the Capitol 1851 Salt print from calotype 35.5 x 25...

Alinari Brothers, Duomo Florence, c. 1890 Alinari, Landscape study by Leonardo da Vinci, collotype Alinari Brothers, Palazzo Vecchio Florence c.1900 source: http://www.alinari.com/ Adolphe Braun - Saint John Baptist by Rodin Thomas Eakins Shad fishing, oil on canvas, 1881 Thomas Eakins Fisherman at Gloucester, 1881

Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (French, 1793–1870) View of the East Facade of the Propylaea on the Acropolis, Athens, May–June, 1850 Daguerreotype; 14.9 x 20 cm (5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.) Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal From the exhibition The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839–1855 September 23, 2003–January 4, 2004 Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries, The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd floor Metropolitan Museum, New York image link