Désiré van Monckhoven
Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and photographic researcher. He was also an inventor and author. 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, a dry collodion process, improvements of the carbon print process, and improved silver-bromide gelatine emulsions.Selected work
- 1857 – Méthodes simplifiées de photographie sur papier. Paris : Marion.
- 1858 – Procédé nouveau de photographie sur plaques de fer: et notice sur les vernis photographiques et le collodion sec. Paris : A. Gaudin.
- 1862 – Traité populaire de photographie sur collodion. Paris: Lieber.
- 1863 – A Popular Treatise on Photography: also A description of, and remarks on, The stereoscope and photographic optics London: Virtue Brothers. See
- 1867 – London: Robert Hardwicke. – reprinted by Arno Press, New York.
