Foreign Travellers and English naturalists

• Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre was a french artist and physicist recognized for his invention of the daguerrotype process. The surface of a daguerreotype is like a mirror, with the image made directly on the silvered surface: it is very fragile and can be rubbed off with a finger. 
•   "Fossils and Shells" is a Daguerrotype by Louis Jacques Mande and shows a collection of shells, at the time Victorians were obsessed with collected things.

• Frederick scott archer invented the photographic collodion process. The collodion process was introduced in the 1850s and by then had replaced the daguerrotype because it was much faster. In the 1880s the collodion process was replaced by gelatin dry plates with a photographic emulsion of silver.

• Charles Dodgson ( Lewis Carrol ) was a photographer and writer. In the picture below is a girl called Alice Liddell who inspired Alice in Wonderland in 1859. Alice Liddel was photographed by Charles Dodgson all her life.

• Sarah  Bernhardt ,This portrait taken 1865 by Nadar. The actress Sarah Bernhardt posed for Nadar when she was 20, she eventually became a celebrity.

Romantic period census of photographers

• Duchenne de Boulogne ,The human mechanism. Duchenne was a French neurologist and wanted to determine how the muscles in the human face produce facial expressions which he believed to be directly linked to the soul of man. He is known, in particular  for the way he triggered muscular contractions with electrical probes, recording the resulting distorted and often grotesque expressions with the recently invented camera and published his findings in the "Mechanism of Human Physiognomy."

• Roger Fenton "The Valley of the shadow death" 1855, Roger Fenton was a war photographer at the time. However in the photograph below he set up the scene with all the canon balls to make it look more dramatic.

• John adams whipple was a hypnotist. (spirit photography) He was an American inventor and early photogtapher. He was the first in the united States to manufacture the chemicals used for daguerreotypes. He was a prize winner for his extrordinary early photographs of the moon.

• William Murmer was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York. His first spirit photograph was a self portrait which was developed to apparantly show his deceased cousin. Mumler then left his job as a jeweller, instead opting to work as a full time photographer, taking advantage of people who had lost relatives in the American Civil War.
• Thomas Annan was a Scottish photographer, notable for the first to record the poor housing conditions of the poor.