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1850s

12 effects · The decade marks introduction, breakthrough or wide use

  • 19

    Stereoscopy

    Boom after the London World's Fair of 1851

  • 20

    Combination Printing

    Artistic debates since the late 1850s

  • 21

    Albumen Print

    Introduced in 1850; dominant withdrawal of the later 19th century

  • 22

    Wet-Plate Collodion

    Introduced in 1851; influential until the 1880s

  • 23

    Ambrotype

    Patented in the USA in 1854; portrait fashion of the 1850s and 1860s

  • 24

    Anaglyph Stereo

    1850s: early color stereoscopy; science and design to this day

  • 25

    Cliché Verre

    1853, popularized by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

  • 26

    Panoramic Photography

    1840s-1850s, early multi-plate daguerreotypes

  • 27

    Lantern Slide

    1850s, Langenheim brothers' photographic glass slides

  • 28

    Aerial Photography

    1858, Nadar’s balloon photographs near Paris

  • 29

    Carte de Visite

    1854, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri's patented portrait format

  • 30

    Stereo Day-Night Tissue

    1850s onward, French tissue stereoviews.

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