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Charles Nègre
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Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, albumen silver print from wet-collodion glass negative by Gustave Le Gray, c. 1856; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Gustave Le Gray
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David Octavius Hill
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Robert Adamson
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William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot
British chemist, linguist, and photographer