Frederick scott archer biography of barack

English photographer and sculptor

This article is about the nineteenth century inventor of the photographic collodion process. For other people with similar names, see Fred Archer (disambiguation).

Frederick Scott Archer ( – 1 May ) was an English photographer and sculptor who is best known for having invented the photographic collodion process^[1] which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion.

He was born in either Bishop's Stortford or Hertford, within the county of Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) and is remembered mainly for this single achievement which greatly increased the accessibility of photography for the general public.

Life

Scott Archer was the second son of a butcher in Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire who went to London to take an apprenticeship as a goldsmith and silversmith with Mr. Massey of Leadenhall Street.^[2]

On the recommendation of Edward Hawkins he trained at the Ro