Joseph Lyne Brown

Also known as M. Brown, J. S. Brown, J. L. Browne, J. Lyne Brown
  • Artist (Photographer)
Renowned for his caustic wit later in life as an alderman on Cairns City Council, as a photographer Brown is best known for popularising the collodion wet-plate process - a speedier and more efficient process than the traditional daguerreotype that freed subjects from having to be immobilised through the use of head clamps.
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