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Frederick Scott Archer (1813-1857) was an English photographer and sculptor who invented the collodion process, a precursor of modern gelatin emulsion. He published his discovery without patenting it and died impoverished, but is remembered for his contribution to photography.
Learn about the life and achievements of Frederick Scott Archer, an English sculptor and inventor of the wet collodion process for photography. Find out how he developed the ambrotype and tintype, and why he died in poverty.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Frederick Scott Archer Discovers The Wet-Collodion Process
- Archer Designs The Folding Collodion Camera
- Frederick Scott Archer Dies, Practically Penniless
- Further Reading and Interesting Links
Archer used Talbot’s calotype process which produced paper negatives but, dissatisfied with the results, he soon began his own experiments to develop a more sensitive and finely detailed process. For his experiments Archer used collodion—a newly-discovered substance which was used as a medical dressing. A sticky solution of gun cotton in ether, col...
Archer was interested in camera design as well as photographic chemistry. In April 1853, he demonstrated a camera made to his own design at a meeting of the Photographic Society. Archer’s camera, ‘where the whole process of a negative picture is completed within the box itself’, was also a portable darkroom. At the back of the camera were two black...
Others were to benefit from Archer’s work and, indeed, a lucky few were to make their fortunes. Archer himself, however, was not so fortunate. His easy-going, generous nature, combined with poor health, prevented him from aggressively pursuing the financial rewards that were rightly his. In May 1857 Archer died, practically penniless, and was burie...
Catchers of the Light, Dr Stefan Hughes: A new short biography of ArcherFrederick Scott Archer of Hertford. It is generally believed that Frederick Scott Archer was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire around 1813; the son of a Butcher. However there is no extant documentary or other evidence to support this view.
Frederick Scott Archer: Photography Pioneer: Inventor of the Collodion Process, Artist and Sculptor
Frederick Scott Archer, known as the inventor of the first practical photographic process to be both sharp and easily reproducible, Frederick Scott Archer was born in England. The son of a butcher, he lost his parents at a young age and was brought up by distant relatives and friends.
Inventor of the Wet Collodion Process. The dominant photographic process used between 1851 and 1880. Frederick Scott Archer made what was, arguably, one of the most important contributions to the development of photography in the first twenty years of its existence.
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