Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurianand other legendary themes.

Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning eleven years of her life (1864–1875). She took up photography at the relatively late age of 48, when she was given a camera as a present. Although her style was not widely appreciated in her own day, her work has had an impact on modern photographers, especially her closely cropped portraits.

Henry Fox Talbot & Calotype process

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 – 1877) was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography. He was the inventor of calotype process, the precursor to most photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Additionally, he made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, and York.

Latticed window in Lacock Abbey in 1835 by Talbot is a print from the oldest photographic negative in existence

Louis Daguerre & Daguerreotype

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851) was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.

Nicéphore Niépce & Heliography

Nicéphore Niépce  (1765 – 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field. He is most noted for producing the world's first known photograph in 1825.

Hi everyone

Welcome to my blog. I devote it to works of famous photographers. I'm preparing for the history of photography exam. So i decided to start this blog to unite useful and pleasant components of the preparation to help myself to remember everything better and to show to everyone the most interesting and the greatest photographers in the history of czech and world photography.

I don't know if i will have enough time to write descriptions in different languages, but i will try to do it. I think not everyone who reads my blog right now is able to understand Czech, the language i'm going to pass the exam in.