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Paper and waxed paper negatives


 
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1Improving content on photographic techniques
Introduction
2Early paper prints and their confusing terminology
Examples
3Paper and waxed paper negatives
Photographers
4Henry Fox Talbot: Paper negatives, waxed paper negatives, calotypes
5Henri Le Secq: Paper and waxed paper negatives
6Charles Nègre: Paper and waxed paper negatives
7John Shaw Smith: Calotypes
8Fortune-Joseph Petiot-Groffier: Waxed paper negatives
9Count Camille Bernard Baillieu d'Avrincourt: Waxed paper negatives (ca 1855)
10François Joseph Edouard de Campigneules: Egypt (1858)
11John Murray: Paper negatives and waxed paper negatives

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