Humphrey's Journal of Photography

Humphrey's Journal of Photography was a periodical published in New York City from 1852 to 1870.[1] Samuel Dwight Humphrey (April 4, 1823 – 1883) was its publisher.[2] He was a doctor.[3] In 1865, J. H. Ladd[4] took over as its publisher in 1859.[5][contradictory] It was one of the earliest photographic periodicals.[5]

History

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Originally Humphrey's Journal of the Daguerreotype and Photographic Arts and the Sciences and Arts Pertaining to Heliography, it became Humphrey's Journal of Photography and the Heliographic Arts and Sciences in 1862, and in 1863 was renamed Humphrey's Journal of Photography and the Allied Arts and Sciences.[1]

John Jackson Brown did a stint as its editor.[6]

Ladd published other books on photography[7][8][9] including John Towler's popular Silver Sunbeam.[10]

Ladd also published The Independent,[11] a newspaper oriented to religion.[12] Ladd published George Barrell Cheever's God against Slavery; And the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as a Sin against God in 1857.[13]

Humphrey was a portrait photographer. In 1849, he made a multiple exposure daguerreotype of the moon, a daguerrotype that is at the Met.[14] Humphrey also published books on daguerreotypes.[15][16]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Humphrey's Journal archives". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  2. ^ "Humphrey's journal of photography and the allied arts and sciences". library.nga.gov. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  3. ^ Harlow, Samuel R.; Hutchins, Stephen C. (November 18, 1868). "Life Sketches of the State Officers, Senators, and Members of the Assembly, of the State of New York, in 1868". Weed, Parsons, printers – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Humphrey's Journal of Photography and the Allied Arts and Sciences. J.H. Ladd. 1865.
  5. ^ a b "Pennsylvania Arts and Sciences". Pennsylvania Arts and Sciences Society. November 18, 1940 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1892.
  7. ^ Towler, John (November 18, 1864). "The Silver Sunbeam". cool.culturalheritage.org.
  8. ^ "Dry plate photography; or, The tannin process, made simple and practical for operators and amateurs., by John Towler | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  9. ^ "Secrets of the dark chamber (1870 edition) | Open Library". Open Library.
  10. ^ Hannavy, John (December 16, 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. ISBN 9781135873271 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "Plough, the Loom and the Anvil". November 18, 1853 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "The Ohio Cultivator: A semi-monthly journal, devoted to the improvement of agriculture and horticulture, and the promotion of domestic industry: Illustrated with engraving of farm buildings, implements, domestic animals, etc". November 18, 1855 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ Phillips, Jason (September 20, 2018). Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-086818-5 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ "Samuel Dwight Humphrey | Multiple Exposures of the Moon: Nine Exposures Ranging from Two Minutes to Half a Second".
  15. ^ "S. D. Humphrey (Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight), 1823–1883) | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  16. ^ "Samuel Dwight Humphrey". id.oclc.org. Retrieved April 14, 2023.