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    Daguerreotype (/dəˈɡɛər(i.)əˌtaɪp, -(i.)oʊ-/ ; French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s...
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    Daguerréotypes is a 1976 French documentary by Agnès Varda. It features vignettes of life in Rue Daguerre - a street in Paris, where the filmmaker lived...
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    The Kynžvart Daguerreotype (Czech: Kynžvartská daguerrotypie) or Still Life with Jupiter Tonans is an early daguerreotype made in 1839 by Louis Daguerre...
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    artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography...
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    photograph of 1838 (or possibly 1837) is one of the earliest surviving daguerreotype plates produced by Louis Daguerre. Although the image seems to be of...
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    on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced and commercially viable photographic process. The daguerreotype required only minutes...
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    camera obscura through many generations of photographic technology – daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film – to the modern day with digital cameras...
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    being the earliest-born person ever photographed while alive, when his daguerreotype was taken in 1851. He was also the last enslaved person to be manumitted...
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    the first in the United States to manufacture the chemicals used for daguerreotypes. He pioneered astronomical and night photography. He was a prize-winner...
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    variant of the wet plate collodion process. Following the invention of daguerreotypes, cheaper than the French invention, ambrotypes came to replace them...
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    American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known...
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  • The French firm Susse Frères manufactured a daguerreotype camera which was one of the first two photographic cameras ever sold to the public. The company...
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  • Stéphane is obsessed with his wife's unexpected death and creates her daguerreotypes every day, using his daughter as a photomodel. In order for him to do...
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    a very different developing-out process (a concept pioneered by the daguerreotype process introduced in 1839), in which only an extremely faint or completely...
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  • various advances in the development of photography took place and after daguerreotype photography was introduced in France in 1839. The earliest commercialization...
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    Monochrome (black and white) photography was first exemplified by the daguerreotype in 1839 and later improved by other methods including: calotype, ambrotype...
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    this first practical process for making photographs with a camera, the daguerreotype, after himself. Its existence was announced to the world on January...
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    Stevenson. In a short period of time, Plumbe established a string of daguerreotype studios and galleries, all bearing his name. Visitors to the galleries...
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    1900 Italian violin maker Giuseppe Fiorini forged the now famous fake daguerreotype of the celebrated violinist. So well in fact, that even the great classical...
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    20-minute-long daguerreotype image using a 5-inch (13 cm) reflecting telescope. The Sun may have been first photographed in an 1845 daguerreotype by the French...
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    American daguerreotype photographer operating in New York. Gurney worked in the jewelry trade in Saratoga, New York, but learned about the daguerreotype from...
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    Philadelphia of ten daguerreotype in 1845 to illustrate The Lord's Prayer and his later, larger (24" x 15"; 61cm x 38 cm) "daguerreotype pictures to illustrate...
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    earliest photographers in the United States. A small number of his daguerreotypes have survived. Bemis was a Boston dentist when in April 1840 he acquired...
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    tree, and the landscape beyond. In this regard it was not unlike the daguerreotype which itself was based on Niépce's discoveries taken up by Daguerre...
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  • female subjects, but erotic images of men are also published. Coloured daguerreotype by Félix-Jacques Moulin, c. 1851–1854 Recumbent female nude, Amélie...
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    years old. Self-portrait by Yun Du-seo, 1710, South Korea (Joseon) A daguerreotype of Robert Cornelius in 1839. The oldest surviving photographic self-portrait...
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  • family in 1918 as inspiration. The jackets actually feature an 1845 daguerreotype of three unnamed girls by German photographer Carl Gustav Oehme. Grace...
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    Adolphe Alexandre Martin in Paris, like the daguerreotype was fourteen years before by Daguerre. The daguerreotype was established and most popular by now...
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    (Niépce), "Photogenic Drawing"/"Talbotype"/"Calotype" (Talbot), and "Daguerreotype" (Daguerre). Photography is the result of combining several technical...
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    Lost for a century, the daguerreotype was discovered in a warehouse in 1975 and was later determined to be the oldest daguerreotype in existence that was...
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