Instantaneous Photography
In the 1860s, Edward Fox junior, Brighton's leading landscape
photographer, was offering to take "Instantaneous Portraits
of Animals, Groups etc." in Brighton and the surrounding
area. We do not have details of the special apparatus or techniques
that Fox employed to take instantaneous photographs in the 1860s,
but it was not until the introduction of the highly sensitive
gelatin dry plates in the late 1870s, that other Brighton photographers
started to use the term "instantaneous".
The greater sensitivity of manufactured dry plates reduced the
length of exposure times to a fraction fof a second,. Although
the use of gelatin-bromide dry plates did not have a great impact
on the work of the photographer producing single portraits in
the studio, it did enable professional photographers to extend
their photographic repertoire.
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