Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm (1834-98), German photo-chemist. In 1860, after earlier studies in Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin, he became interested in photo-chemistry and in 1862, after visiting the World Exhibition in London, published a report on the current state of photography. In 1863 he obtained a doctorate in photo- chemistry and founded the Photographic Association in Berlin. (A breakaway group, the German Photographers' Association, was formed in 1867.) In 1864 he founded the technical journal Photographische Mitteilungen, and edited it for many years. Vogel passed on his encyclopedic knowledge in lectures at the Berlin Polytechnic, numerous articles, and the four-volume Text-Book of Photography (Lehrbuch der Photographie, 1867-70). His research led to the development of the orthochromatic plate (1873), and in 1884 to the panchromatic plate, equally sensitive to all the colours of the spectrum. He travelled widely and served on the juries of many photographic exhibitions. In the 1890s he published a four-part Handbook of Photography.
— Jens Jaeger
Bibliography
- Herneck, F., Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1984)
