Willian Henry Fox Talbot

Willian Henry Fox Talbot ( 1800 – 1877 )

English researcher,in parallel to Niépce and Daguerre, and with a huge scientific training, Henry Foz Talbot invented another way of taking pictures: The Calotype.

With this method he could obtained many copies of each negative. The images were less sharp and they lacked of the daguerreotype gray scales, but the calotype was cheaper, easier to use and it required a shorter time of exposure (only 30 seconds).

He published the first illustrated book of photos "The pencil of natura, 1844".

"The Ladder"

 

 

"The Haystack"

"The Broom"

"Ships at low tide"

Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre ( 1787 – 1851 ):

French researcher, he had invented the Diorama: Huge images that he could move, combined with lights and sounds, all together had  sense of dimension and sense of being inside the picture.

Because he needed very realistic images for his dioramas he became interested in the work of Niépce.

Finally he and Niépce ended  associated, when the second died Daguerre following the research and invented the Daguerreotype.

The first photography that shows a human "Boulevard du Temple,1839".

"The Louvre"

Besides the photography he also was a very good painter. Here some of his paintings: 

"Interior of Rosslyn Chapel"

"Ruins of Holyrood Chapel"

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ( 1765 – 1833 ):

He was a French researcher who obteined the first photographic images, the procedure used was called Heliography.

He made two different kind of images:

Heliogravures which were reproductios  of engravings of that time and Point of views, which were captured directty from natural images, both taken by the camera.

The first photography preserved "Point of view from the window of grass, 1827".

Heliogravure

Point of view