Museum Notebook: How the Brady Stand made life easier for photographers and clients
7 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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A trick image of a photographer capturing himself modelling the use of a Brady Stand, 1893. Photo / Supplied
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Sandi Black
When Nicéphore Niépce created the first surviving photograph in 1826-1827, the process took over eight hours.
The resulting image of the view from his window at Les Gras was blurry and grainy with shadows and reflections in opposing directions. But for the first time the image was captured permanently, and photography was born.
With time and refinement, the process became quicker, so when daguerreotype portrait photographs started becoming popular and affordable in the early 1840s the sitter only had to wait a minute and a half for their likeness to be captured, depending on the amount of light in the studio.
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