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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Frederick Scott Archer

Dates:  1813 - 1857, 2 May
Born:  Great Britain, Hertfordshire, Bishop's Stortford
Died:  Great Britain, London
Active:  Great Briain
Gender:  Male
 
  
In March 1851 he published his invention of the wet collodion process that became the dominant method used until the 1870s. Rather than patent the process, he made a gift of it to the nation and died in impecunious circumstances.

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Frederick Scott Archer
Frederick Scott Archer 
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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
The International Photographers Hall of Fame has provided a biography.Show on this siteGo to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.36 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Frederick Scott Archer.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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