The document discusses the history of photography from its earliest pioneers like Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot who developed the daguerreotype and calotype processes. It then outlines some of the key innovations in photography over time including Frederick Archer's development of the wet plate collodion process and Anna Atkins' work creating photobooks of botanical specimens, some of the earliest photography books. The summary provides an overview of the evolution of photography techniques from its origins to modern experimental photography.

1. On the Art of Fixing a
Shadow

2. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
(France)

3. VS

4. William Henry Fox Talbot
(England)

5. Daguerreotype VS Calotype

8. Frederick Scott Archer

9. Wet plate collodion

18. “The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without
any aid whatever from the artist's pencil. They are the sun-pictures themselves, and
not, as some persons have imagined, engravings in imitation.”

19. Anna Atkins

24. Thomas Smillie
Smithsonian Collection

26. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

28. Christian Schad

29. Man Ray

30. Betty Hahn

31. Martha Casanave

32. Ellen Carey

34. Susan Derges

37. Masumi Shibata

38. Adam Fuss

44. Jayne Hinds Bidaut