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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
 
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Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer       
1861
 
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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