A photographer who specializes in or practices the calotype photographic process.
Formed from 'calotype' plus '-ist' (one who practices or specializes in something). The term emerged in the 1840s-1850s during the early photography era.
Calotypists were the first true photographers in the modern sense—William Henry Fox Talbot's licensed calotypists traveled Europe capturing landscapes and portraits, making them the precursors to today's professional photographers.
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