Pioneers of photography

English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)

French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)

French filmmakers

French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)

American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer (1854–1932)

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar () or 'Félix Nadar,''''' was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death.

Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)

English-American photographer (1830–1904)

British inventor and photographer (1800–1877)

British photographer (1815–1879)

English botanist and photographer (1799-1871)

French painter (1789–1863)

French scientist and chronophotographer (1830–1904)

Italian-British photographer (1832–1909)

American photographer (c. 1823 – 1896)

French poet and inventor (1842-1888)

British photographer (1819–1869)

American photographer (1867-1931)

American photographer and lamp manufacturer (1809–1893)

Banker, philanthropist, pioneer of photography (1860–1940)

American engineer and inventor (1903–1990)

British photographic experimentor

English inventor of the photographic collodion process (1813–1857)

anarchist and inventor (1847–1914)

French photographer (1820–1884)

French photographer (1801–1887)

French inventor (1862–1954)

French photographer (1850–1917)

Swedish photographer and painter (1824-1895)

British photographer (1830–1901)

Swedish photographer and painter (1827–1913)

French photographer (1819–1889)

British photographer and missionary (1870–1970)

American inventor

Indian photographer (1844–1905)

French photographer (1837–1920)

English photographer and gem and coin engraver (1813-1888)

German photographer (1815–1901)

British photographer (1822-1865)

French biologist, photographer and zoologist (1859–1934)

Swedish artist, photographer, cartographer and writer (1803–1868)

French photographer (1846-1918)

French journalist and man of letters (1819–1895)

German photographer (1810–1884)

Swiss photographer (1829–1886)

Danish artist (1818-1875)

English photographer (1822–1898)

American photographer and painter (1843-1942)

Scottish photographer, geographer, and traveller (1837–1921)

Czech photographer (1839-1911)

Swedish photographer (1801–1866)

Austrian photographer (1865-1911)

British photographer (1811–1880)

Japanese photographer (1838–1904)

American photographer (1822–1891)

Russian photographer and inventor (1819-1898)

French artist, photographer and inventor (1804-1879)

American-Armenian inventor

Swedish photographer (1835–1915)

British photographer (1813–1885)