Daguerreotype
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English: The daguerreotype is an early type of photograph, but, unlike modern photographs, it has no negative. Instead, it is an image exposed directly onto a mirror-polished surface of silver, which has first been exposed to iodine vapor, and also in the later use of the process, bromine vapor, housed in a velvet-lined folding case.
Español: El daguerrotipo es un antiguo método de fotografía que no tiene negativo. En su lugar, consiste en una imagen expuesta directamente en una superficie de plata sensible a la luz. Esta placa ha sido expuesta previamente a vapor de yodo (y más adelante, vapor de bromo).
Italiano: La dagherrotipia è un procedimento fotografico per lo sviluppo di immagini non riproducibili. Messo a punto dal francese Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre da un'idea di Joseph Niépce, venne presentato al pubblico nel 1839 dallo scienziato François Arago, presso l'Académie des Sciences e dell'Académie des Beaux Arts.
See also: Category:Daguerreotypes
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 The most famous image of Edgar Allan Poe was a daguerreotype taken in 1848 shortly before his death. |
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 Daniel Spencer (* 1759, † 1854), a veteran of the revolutionary war. Daguerrtype, New York 1853 by Carden & Co. |
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 Group in costume for Saint Jean Baptiste Day, Montreal, 1855. |
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 Oscar I av Sverige, first photograph/daguerreotype ever of a Swedish regent, taken in 1844 by an unknown photographer. |
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