Imaging recource: Why this oft-ignored pioneer of photography was doomed to obscurity & created the first staged photo

Starting last October, Vox began their Vox Darkroom video series, which shares "stories of the past, one photograph at a time." Since launching the series in the fall, Vox has published five episodes, all of which can be viewed below. The latest episode is about Hippolyte Bayard, the first photographer to ever hold a public exhibition. Before Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre famously became known as one of the creators of the photographic process, Bayard had already invented photography with his own direct positive process. After...
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