1850s

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1850

Albumen print, characteristic of the 19th century. Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor and Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard.

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1851

Wet collodion, the negative par excellence until 1880. Frederick Scott Archer.

1854

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patents the carte de visite format.

James Ambrose Cutting patents the ambrotype.

1855

Collotype, a photomechanical process. Alphonse-Louis Poitevin.

Carbon prints, a pigmentary process. Alphonse-Louis Poitevin.

1856

Adolphe Alexandre Martin discovers the ferrotype, patented by Hamilton Smith.