Salted paper print
The earliest paper-based photographic material. So named because it was made by coating water containing a soluble salt onto a sheet of paper, which was then coated with silver nitrate to produce a uniform coating of a light-sensitive silver compound
Featured Works
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Lace
William Henry Fox Talbot
1845
Abu Simbel, Western Colossus of the Temple of Ra
Maxime Du Camp
1850
George Gilfillan and Dr. Samuel Brown
David Octavius Hill
c. 1841-48
The Moon
John Adams Whipple
1853-54
Paul Chenavard
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1856-58
Untitled
Unidentified photographer
c. 1850