'I find the 19th century a particularly fascinating time in photography because it’s the absolute beginning.'
The Scourged BackIn 1857, she wrote a review article on photography that discussed all the various uses of photography — what it meant, the way it had changed the world, and the way it had changed the way people lived their lives. At a certain point, she calls the camera"the eye of the sun." I thought this was a very evocative phrase, so I adapted it for the title of this exhibition.There were two basic rival photographic processes out in the world in 1839.
It very quickly took off too, particularly in America where it flourished for the first decade and a half of photography. Daguerreotype studios start opening within some months of the announcement, and a lot of people, men primarily, saw this as a business opportunity.Stone Wall, Rear of Fredericksburg, With Rebel Dead, 1866.
On the other side in England, there was William Henry Fox Talbot, who developed a process that involved making a negative on paper and making a corresponding salted paper print from the negative. That, of course, is what became the basis for all photographic systems up until the advent of digital photography. The advantage to that is that you could make more than one copy from the same negative.
By the 1850s, new processes had been introduced called the wet-collodion-glass negative and the albumen print, which were variations on the paper negative, but achieved a higher level of sharp details and greater range of tone. These processes superseded the daguerreotype and became the most dominant processes for the latter half of the 19th century.
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