The "Inventor" of Photography

The "Inventor" of Photography

Photograph

Douglas Arthur Spencer

Maker
English, 1901–1979

The "Inventor" of Photography

Portrait of the Inventor


[Composite Photograph of Photography's Inventors]


1946
Gelatin silver print
Image: 23 x 17.8 cm
Overall: 27.8 x 21.6 cm
2001.0368.0001
Inscriptions verso (typed label attached to print):

The "Inventor" of Photography

(A composite portrait made by binding together thin low-contrast positives of portraits of the following: - )

Niepce
Daguerre
Fox Talbot
Reade
Herschel
Niepce St. Victor [sic]
Petzval
Maddox
Scott Archer
Vogel
Swan
Driffield
Eastman

Received by Dr. Walter Clark from Dr. D.A. Spencer / See letter Spencer--Clark 6/14/46

verso (rubberstamp): 46168

verso (pencil, museum hand): IF [Information File] / IF Photography - History 11/75
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