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.

Dec 13, 2025 · 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.

The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative.

Apr 8, 2025 · The world's first publicly available form of photography, the daguerreotype process produced countless stunning images in the 1840s and 1850s.

The daguerreotype process made it possible to capture the image seen inside a camera obscura and preserve it as an object. It was the first practical photographic process and ushered in a new age of …

The only way to get a copy of a daguerreotype was to take another daguerreotype of the first finished plate. The daguerreotype was capable of extremely fine detail and image resolution. Magnified …

The meaning of DAGUERREOTYPE is an early photograph produced on a silver or a silver-covered copper plate; also : the process of producing such photographs.