The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the ...

The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...

DOVER — In the summer of 1850, a traveling daguerreotype artist arrived in Dover with a horse and cart. In the cart were the camera, chemicals and materials needed to make images appear on ...

The Daguerreotype process required lots of light, long exposures, and a sound understanding of chemistry to effect a photograph that was often difficult to see on the exposed silver plate. Starting in ...

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