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Dry-plate photography


 
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The revolution that liberated the photographer from the darkroom. The advent of the pre-sensitized gelatin "dry plate" in the 1880s made photography faster, more accessible, and paved the way for the handheld camera and the snapshot.

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Packaging and marketing
1Packaging for dry plates
2Dry plates
Proof of quality
3Instantaneous photography - The exploding mule (6 June 1881)
Photographers
4Victor Angerer: Instantaneous photography on the street (1888)

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