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daguerreotype

Still Life, daguerreotype by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, 1837; elipsis

First successful form of photography. It is named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicéphore Niépce. They found that if a copper plate coated with silver iodide is exposed to light in a camera, then fumed with mercury vapour and fixed (made permanent) by a solution of common salt, a permanent image is formed. The first daguerreotype image was produced in 1837, by which time Niépce had died, so the process was named for Daguerre. Many daguerreotypes, especially portraits, were made in the mid-19th century; the technique was gradually replaced by the wet collodion process, introduced in 1851.

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The art of the landscape daguerreotype.
Sep 01, 1995; Until very recently the daguerreotype has been the least understood and appreciated art form of the nineteenth century. Most...
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Daguerreotype era is remembered at the National Museum of American Art.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/ Tribune News Service)
Sep 01, 1995; WASHINGTON _ Even before French physicist and artist Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre announced his newly developed photographic...
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Boston light: daguerreotypes by Southworth & Hawes convey mid-19th-century America through its luminaries and ordinary citizens.(PHOTOGRAPHY)
Mar 01, 2006; A daguerreotype is a photographic image recorded by a fine deposit of metallic mercury on a very thin layer of pure silver laid...
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Interview: Jerry Spanioli talks about daguerreotype he took of the World Trade Towers collapsing
Dec 26, 2001; 00-00-0000 Interview: Jerry Spanioli talks about daguerreotype he took of the World Trade Towers collapsing Host: NOAH ADAMS...
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RARE DAGUERREOTYPE UP FOR BID.(News)
Dec 07, 2007; Byline: Terry Kinney, Associated Press A rare daguerreotype of abolitionist John Brown is up for bid today, about seven years...
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