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1835
Fox Talbot exposes the first photographic negatives, among them a view looking out through an oriel window in Lacock Abbey
1841
Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype', introducing the negative-positive process that becomes standard in photography
1851
English photographer Frederick Scott Archer publishes the details of his collodion process, a marked improvement on the earlier calotype negative
1855
Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer
1861
Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War
1863
48-year-old Julia Margaret Cameron is given a camera by her daughter, in the Isle of Wight, and decides to concentrate on portraits
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