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photographic processing

(Encyclopedia) photographic processing, set of procedures by which the latent, or invisible, image produced when a photographic film is exposed to light is made into a permanent visible image.…

positive

(Encyclopedia) positive: see photographic processing.

negative

(Encyclopedia) negative: see photographic processing.

developer

(Encyclopedia) developer: see photographic processing.

Land, Edwin Herbert

(Encyclopedia) Land, Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, American inventor and photographic pioneer. While at Harvard, Land became interested in the properties and manipulation of polarized light. He left…

Louis Lumière

Louis Lumière was the son of a Antoine Lumière, a successful pioneer in photography. When Louis was a teenager he developed a photographic process that made the family business even more successful,…

Chester F. Carlson

Chester F. Carlson Born: 1906Birthplace: Seattle, Wash. Electrophotography—Carlson invented xerographic dry-copy printing basing his process on electrostatics as opposed to chemical or…

Edwin Land Biography

Edwin LandBorn: 1909Birthplace: Connecticut Photographic product comprising a rupturable containing carrying a photographic processing liquid—Land developed the first modern light polarizers…

Francis Edgar Stanley Biography

Francis Edgar Stanleyinventor, manufacturer Born: 6/1/1849Birthplace: Kingfield, Maine Francis and his twin brother Freelan formed the Stanley Dry Plate Company in 1883 to manufacture dry…

Brewer's: Daguerreotype

(4 syl.). A photographic process. So named from M. Daguerre, who greatly improved it in 1839. (See Talbotype.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DagunDagonet…