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| 1851 |
| | | English photographer Frederick Scott Archer publishes the details of his collodion process, a marked improvement on the earlier calotype negative | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War | |
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| 1863 |
| | | 48-year-old Julia Margaret Cameron is given a camera by her daughter, in the Isle of Wight, and decides to concentrate on portraits | |
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| 1878 |
| | | English-born US photographer Eadweard Muybridge publishes closely linked photographs revealing how a horse goes through its paces | |
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| 1879 |
| | | English physicist Joseph Swan receives a patent for bromide paper, which becomes the standard material for printing photographs | |
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| 1882 |
| | | Eadweard Muybridge projects slow-motion images of a trotting horse as a demonstration at London's Royal Institution | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs | |
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| 1890 |
| | | In How the Other Half Lives David Riis alerts middle-class New Yorkers to the appalling slum conditions in lower Manhattan | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement | |
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