How the magic of photography brought Victorian England closer to ...

The dawn of photography helped summon Victorian beliefs in an unseen spirit realm that could be made manifest and contactable.

11 Things About Victorian-Era Photography | Futura Photo

As most photos were taken amidst times of grief, it was difficult for folks to smile. Additionally, the time it took for the camera to actually take the photo ...

Photographic Processes Illustrated in the Historic England Archive

76 Victorian glass lantern slides taken by photographer and balloonist Cecil Shadbolt between 1882-1892. Arthur E Morton The Garden and Country Scenes series of ...

A brief history of ghosts and spirit photography | V&A - YouTube

Do you believe in ghosts? Do you believe you can see the unseen? The Victorians were obsessed with seances, spiritualism and other creepy ...

The Art of Victorian Photography - Laurence Shafe

being brought to maturity by the aid of British talent.“ 8. Page 16. Henry Fox Talbot, 'View of the Boulevards of Paris', ...

Magic moments marking 170 years of British photography - BBC News

Popularised in a time before newspapers printed any images, postcards were a visual way of communicating for Victorians. Coloured ones emerged ...

Victorian Photography: When colour seeps into the past

... London, taken by Leon & Levy, Paris, 1860s – 1870s. From the Howarth-Loomes Collection at National Museums Scotland. The next set of colour ...

A Glance At Victorian Photography - Under The Moonlight

Many old-time photographic techniques that do exist came from the Victorian era in the short period of time between the 1830s to 1900s. New ...

How the Giants of Victorian Photography Introduced Art to the Medium

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography celebrates four key nineteenth-century figures, exploring their experimental approaches to ...

Photography - The Victorian Historian

The Victorian era was known for some very interesting photography techniques, most notably postmortem photography. ... took to take a picture in photography's ...

The Early Decades: Photography in the 1840s and 1850s

Photography was introduced to the world in 1839. When the new medium arrived in the United States that year, it first established itself in major cities in the ...

My Photo - Victorian Selfies and Photobombing 1887

Photographers were beginning to venture into the East End of London in order to record, for readers of the widely available news-sheets and ...

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of ...

Talbot conceived and brought about a wholly new way of making pictures, perfected the optical and chemical aspects of photography, and learned to use the ...

Spirit photography - Wikipedia

The omnipresence of death in the Victorian period created a desire for evidence of the afterlife, and those who partook in Spirit Photography oftentimes hoped ...

Nineteenth-Century Photography | Art History Teaching Resources

By 1841, exposure times were around 30 seconds to a minute depending on the light, making it much easier to produce images on a commercial scale—though portrait ...

Exhibition: 'A New Power: Photography in Britain 1800-1850' at the ...

The first book to be photographically printed and illustrated, Photographs of British Algae was published in fascicles beginning in 1843 and is ...

19th Century Photographic Processes

The exposure process took several seconds to a few minutes, and the resulting photograph was a sharp image despite a low color contrast. Because ...

A short history of colour photography

Photographers, eager to give their customers what they wanted, soon took the matter, literally, into their own hands and began to add colour to ...

The Impact of Nineteenth Century Photography on Visual ... - IvyPanda

Nineteenth century photography with reference to both the figure of the child and the photographs and photographic practices of Victorian women ...

Frame and fortune: How early photographers changed the world - BBC

Tate Britain is hosting the country's first ever exhibition of salted paper prints - a pioneering form of photography developed in the mid 19th ...