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295: 22: 240:, who published another, less practical collodion process in 1850. But until the end of his life, Bingham proudly proclaimed that he was the first to have written about the collodion process, either in his 1848 book or in the January 1850 edition, making him the inventor of the process. While he is generally acknowledged as one of the first inventors to independently suggest collodion as an alternative for paper, the invention is usually still given to Archer because he published the first practically usable description of the process. 281: 267: 252: 171:, was destroyed by a fundamentalist Christian, making the photographs by Bingham the only remaining trace of it. But the public outrage about the painting was so great that the government had the negatives destroyed in 1867 as well. Courbet's 1864 "Vénus et Psyché" has disappeared as well and is also only known through Bingham's photographs. 94:
of prize winning exhibits as illustrations for the photographically-illustrated presentation copies of the Report by the Juries. Bingham set up a photographic printing establishment in Versailles in order to undertake this contract. Some of the photographs and others by Bingham were shown in 1852 at
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until Thompson returned to England in 1856. Bingham not only worked at the 1855 Exposition, but also displayed his own life-size portraits, for which he won a Medal First Class. Due to a lack of commercial success, however, he soon stopped producing these huge photographs and stuck to more standard
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Photogenic Manipulation: Containing the Theory and Plain Instructions in the Art of Photography, Or the Production of Pictures Through the Agency of Light: Including Calotype, Flurotype, Ferrotype, Chromotype, Chrysotype, Cyanotype, Catalistotype and Anthotype. Part
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quarter of Paris, one of the hotspots of artistic activity at the time. He became friends with many artists, photographing them and their works, and started on a new project, a photographic collection of the works of the recently deceased painter
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His reproductions of paintings were famed for their suggestion of the original colours in the black-and-white photographs, and were lauded as being far superior to all other similar efforts until then.
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to photograph the masterpieces of the museum collection. At some point in 1851 1855, or 1859, Bingham moved to Paris to work there as a photographer, at first together with the American
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used to send photographs of his paintings, made by Bingham, to people to inform them of his latest creations, without the need to wait for a Salon or other exhibition. Similarly,
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1860: "Oeuvre de Ary Scheffer, reproduit en photographie par Bingham. Accompagné d'une notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Ary Scheffer, par L. V.", published by Goupil.
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1858: "Oeuvre de Paul Delaroche : reproduit en photographie par Bingham ; accompagné d'une notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Paul Delaroche", published by
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showed his paintings, which were rejected for the Salon, through photographs made by Bingham. His 1863 work "Retour de conférence", which was even rejected at the
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His work at the Louvre inspired him to make photographic portraiture a commercial enterprise, and in 1857 he opened his new atelier in the
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for their work as well, helping it become the most popular method from 1855 until about 1880. Henry Cole sent him at the same time to the
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in Paris. His ability to take some 2500 photographs at relatively high speeds on this occasion encouraged other photographers to use the
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1860: "L'album : recueil de photographies des chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art contemporain", published by
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In 1853, at the British Embassy in Paris, he married Emma Reeve, daughter of surgeon John Reed of
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Bingham continued to exhibit in Great Britain and France, winning another medal at the
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1859: "Oeuvres de Mr. Chifflart. Grand prix de Rome" published by
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and another one with photographs of the major works of the 1860
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of 1851, and was commissioned, as a result of the influence of
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in London. He was one of the leading members of the
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Index


Georges Darboy
collodion process
Billesdon
Leicestershire
Kinver
London Institution
The Great Exhibition
Henry Cole
Claude-Marie Ferrier
Recent Specimens of Photography
Society of Arts
Exposition Universelle of 1855
collodion process
Louvre
Warren T. Thompson
Nouvelle Athènes
Paul Delaroche
catalogue raisonné
Ary Scheffer
Salon
Napoleon Museum
Amiens
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Courbet
Salon des Refusés
1862 International Exhibition
Société française de photographie
Goupil & Cie
Alfred Cadart

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