#  James Wallace Black (1825-1896) 

 



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[View images of James Wallace Black's salted paper prints.](https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,James%20Wallace%20Black&tab=default_tab&search_scope=default_scope&vid=HVD_IMAGES&mfacet=topic,include,salted%20paper%20print,1&offset=0)

James Wallace Black worked in partnership with John Adams Whipple. The two photographers earned recognition for the quality of their daguerreotypes as well as their advances with glass plate negatives and paper prints. They received a number of commissions from Harvard College including photographing the moon through the telescope of the Harvard College Observatory and serving as official photographers for the Harvard class albums. Black also traveled to the White Mountains in New Hampshire, a popular tourist attraction at the time, where he created landscape views using the salt print process. His images, which reside at the Harvard Art Museums, reveal rock formations and bodies of water in breathtaking detail, at a time when landscape photography was emerging as a photographic genre in America.

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["Cascade Falls, Jackson," James Wallace Black, salted paper print, 1854, Harvard Art Museums](http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/213730?position=0)   ![Alt Text](/sites/g/files/omnuum11151/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/saltprintsatharvard/files/ham_jameswallaceblack_9049.jpg?itok=ZB7xNaCI) 

 

["Untitled (view of mill and stream)," James Wallace Black, salted paper print, 1854, Harvard Art Museums](http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/213293?position=0)