AMBROTOS.COMPlateAndFilm

Learn

Pioneers & Inventors

The people who built photography — Daguerre and Niépce, Talbot and Archer, Eastman and Barnack, and the studio photographers who turned a chemical curiosity into a global medium.

Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre

Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce

William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot

Frederick Scott Archer

Frederick Scott Archer

George Eastman

George Eastman

Hippolyte Bayard

Hippolyte Bayard

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron

Mathew Brady

Mathew Brady

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge

Nadar (photographer)

Nadar (photographer)

Antoine Claudet

Antoine Claudet

Oskar Barnack

Oskar Barnack