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    Daguerreotype (/dəˈɡɛər(i.)əˌtaɪp, -(i.)oʊ-/ ; French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced and commercially viable photographic process. The daguerreotype required only minutes...
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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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    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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