Désiré van Monckhoven

Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven.

Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834–1882) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and photographic researcher. He was also an inventor and author.^[1]

Works[edit]

He wrote several of the earliest books on photography and photographic optics. His original French works were later translated to English and other languages.

He invented or developed an enlarger (1864),^[2] a dry collodion process (1871), improvements of the carbon print process (1875–80), and improved silver-bromide gelatine emulsions.^[1]

Enlarger

Selected work[edit]

1857 – Méthodes simplifiées de photographie sur papier (Simplified methods of photography on paper). Paris : Marion. OCLC 16973778
1858 – Procédé nouveau de photographie sur plaques de fer: et notice sur les vernis photographiques et le collodion sec (A new process of photography on ferrous plates). Paris : A. Gaudin. OCLC 7011879
1862 – Traité populaire de photographie sur collodion. Paris: Lieber. OCLC 17454826
1863 – A Popular Treatise on Photography: also A description of, and remarks on, The stereoscope and photographic optics (tr. W.H. Thornthwaite) London: Virtue Brothers. OCLC 17368038 See excerpt transcription
1867 – Photographic Optics; Including the Description of Lenses and Enlarging Apparatus. London: Robert Hardwicke. OCLC 5332903 – reprinted by Arno Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-405-09624-2 OCLC 4642259

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b Day, Lance et al. (1996). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, p. 495.
^ Hannavy, John. (2008). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography, p. 1438.

References[edit]

Beach, Frederick Converse. "Modern amateur photography," Harper's Magazine. January 1889. pp. 288–297.
Day, Lance and Ian McNeil. (1996). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-06042-4
Hannavy, John. (2008). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography. London: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2
"The Late Dr. Van Monckhoven," Nature. Volume 26, Issue 677, pp. 601– 602 (October 1882).

External links[edit]

[day495-1] Day, Lance et al. (1996). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, p. 495.

[2] Hannavy, John. (2008). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography, p. 1438.

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