Word: collodion
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...process. Tinted Brady daguerreotypes on ivory won a gold medal at the London World's Fair of 1851. About 1855 successful Photographer Brady imported from Britain one Alexander Gardner, an expert in the wet plate process invented by Frederick Scott Archer, which used glass plates dipped in collodion, permitted almost instantaneous exposures. Brady & Gardner later opened another studio in Washington. Almost every eminent U. S. citizen felt it necessary to sit for Brady & Gardner...
Photographers who admire the work of Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") Salomon (TIME, Nov. 9), realize with what enormous handicaps silky-whiskered Mathew Brady had to contend. In his jolting little wagon, with his enormous chicken coop of a camera, he had to coat his plates with collodion, expose and develop them before they had time to dry. Minie balls crashed through his little developing wagon, his horses were killed, hundreds of plates were smashed, yet he took troops in action, dead soldiers sprawled in the breastworks. He took Lincoln, Grant, most of the Federal generals of the war, and made...