Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 1850–58, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Mat: 11 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (28.6 × 23.2 cm), Photographs, Hugh Welch Diamond (British, 1808–1886), A medical doctor, antiquarian, and collector of prints, Hugh Diamond is a prime example of a gentleman amateur who furthered the development of the new medium of photography. He made his first photograph in April 1839, only three months after Talbot's demonstration of the invention, was instrumental in founding the Photographic Society in 1853, and through publications and informal gatherings taught many photographers, including Henry Peach Robinson, to use both the calotype and the collodion processes
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