19th century

===Photography===
[[File:View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.jpg|thumb|upright|One of the first photographs, produced in 1826 by [[Nicéphore Niépce]]]]
[[File:Self-portrait of Nadar.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nadar (photographer)|Nadar]], Self-portrait, {{Circa|1860}}]]
{{see also|History of photography|List of photojournalists|Photojournalism|Daguerreotype}}
*[[Ottomar Anschütz]], [[chronophotographer]]
*[[Mathew Brady]], documented the [[American Civil War]]
*[[Edward S. Curtis]], documented the [[American West]] notably [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]
*[[Louis Daguerre]], inventor of [[daguerreotype]] process of photography, chemist
*[[Thomas Eakins]], pioneer motion photographer
*[[George Eastman]], inventor of [[Photographic film|roll film]]
*[[Hércules Florence]], pioneer inventor of photography
*[[Auguste and Louis Lumière]], pioneer film-makers, inventors
*[[Étienne-Jules Marey]], pioneer motion photographer, [[chronophotographer]]
*[[Eadweard Muybridge]], pioneer motion photographer, [[chronophotographer]]
*[[Nadar (photographer)|Nadar]] a.k.a. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, portrait photographer
*[[Nicéphore Niépce]], pioneer inventor of photography
*[[Louis Le Prince]], motion picture inventor and pioneer film-maker
*[[Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky]],  chemist and photographer
*[[William Fox Talbot]], inventor of the negative / positive photographic process.