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  1. First publicly available photographic process

    Daguerreotype (/ dəˈɡɛər (i.) əˌtaɪp, - (i.) oʊ -/ ⓘ; French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process.
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    The name "daguerreotype" correctly refers only to one very specific image type and medium, the product of a process that was in wide use only from the early 1840s to the late 1850s. Since the Renaissance era, artists and inventors had searched for a mechanical method of capturing visual scenes.
    Daguerreotype, first successful form of photography, named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicéphore Niépce in the 1830s. Daguerre and Niépce found that if a copper plate coated with silver iodide was exposed to light in a camera, then
    Although the daguerreotype process is sometimes said to have died out completely in the early 1860s, documentary evidence indicates that some very slight use of it persisted more or less continuously throughout the following 150 years of its supposed extinction.
    Exposure times for the earliest daguerreotypes ranged from three to fifteen minutes, making the process nearly impractical for portraiture. Modifications to the sensitization process coupled with the improvement of photographic lenses soon reduced the exposure time to less than a minute.
  3. WEB5 days ago · daguerreotype, first successful form of photography, named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France, who invented the …

  4. WEBLouis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ( / dəˈɡɛər / ⓘ də-GAIR, French: [lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de daɡɛʁ]; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist …

    • Born: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, 18 …
    • Known for: Invention of the daguerreotype process
    • Died: 10 July 1851 (aged 63), Bry-sur-Marne, France
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  5. WEBThe Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839–1855. CD-ROM. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. From the moment of its birth, photography had a dual character—as a medium of artistic …

  6. WEBThe French government placed Daguerre’s process in the public domain, and within months it had spread across the globe like wildfire. So intense was the craze that by December of 1839 a Parisian caricaturist, …

  7. WEBJan 30, 2020 · Louis Daguerre (November 18, 1787–July 10, 1851) was the inventor of the daguerreotype, the first form of modern photography. A professional scene painter for the opera with an interest in lighting …