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1890s

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

  • 54

    Gum Bichromate

    Developed in 1855, revived in the Pictorialism of the 1890s

  • 55

    Stop Trick

    Documented in 1895, Méliès’ film magic from 1896

  • 56

    Sepia Toning

    19th century; later, a universal nostalgia look

  • 57

    Photochrom

    Developed in the 1880s; peak period 1890s to early 1900s

  • 58

    Lippmann Interference Photography

    Introduced in 1891; a scientific milestone, not a mass production procedure

  • 59

    Pinhole Photography

    1890: George Davison's The Onion Field as a pictorialist reference

  • 60

    Dissolve

    1899 early example; classic cinema to the present day

  • 61

    X-Ray Radiograph

    1895, Wilhelm Röntgen's first medical x-ray

  • 62

    Van Dyke Brown Print

    1889, W. J. Nicol's Kallitype patent

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