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The Artists

Robert Cornelius

Robert Cornelius was a U.S. Photographer born in 1809. Cornelius contributed to the Early Photography movement and died in 1893. Get notified when Robert Cornelius's biography is complete:

Self-portrait

1839

View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia

1840

Nicéphore Niépce

The inventor of Photography

1765-1833

Hippolyte Bayard

The second person to invent photography

1801-1887

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Visionary promoter of photography

1787-1851
18011900
Hard luck in the land of supernatural beauty
Peder Balke
The inventor of the steam hammer maps the moon
James Nasmyth Robert Cornelius
The art of seeing
Charles Darwin
The blasted landscapes of bad luck
Théodore Rousseau

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