biografia di John Adams WHIPPLE (1823-1891)

Birth place: Grafton, MA

Death place: Boston

Profession: Daguerreotypist, photographer

Exhibited: London, 1851 (Council medal); NYC, 1853-54 (silver medal)

Comments: A pioneer daguerreotypist, in 1844 he invented the first glass wet-plate negatives for making albumen photographs on paper (although in 1848 his announcement was beaten by the Frenchman, NiÈpce). He later developed the "Crytalotype" print. In Boston, he was a partner in galleries with Albert Litch (1844-46), Wm. B. Jones (1849), and J.W. Black (1856-59). He was among the very first to photograph the moon (1849), a star (1850), and to photograph through the microscope. In 1863 in Boston, he took the first photographs illuminated by electric light outside at night. He quit photography in 1874 when he began publishing religious books.

Sources: Welling; Newhall, The Daguerreotype in America, 155