The "Inventor" of Photography
Photograph
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
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
