The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

Among a collection of daguerreotypes for sale at Christie’s is one made by Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, ...

The French gifted the Daguerreotype process to the world, except for Great Britain. A patent was filed in Britain due to a long-standing rivalry. The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process ...

A lithographer by trade, Lion had traveled to Paris in 1839, the very year that Louis Daguerre unveiled his revolutionary photographic process known as the Daguerreotype. Lion became an acolyte of ...

The daguerreotype process of using mercury to develop pictures on polished metal, and the wet-collodion plate with its nitrocellulose solution are well-known, but as conservators at the British ...

This was when the first permanent photograph was taken! It took 8 hours to take this photograph! The first galss negative was used in Daguerreotype process which involved exposure to make a negative ...

I knew I would first have to figure out if it were a real daguerreotype. I went to the Daguerrian Society, a reputable and keen group of collectors. Since daguerreotypes are made on a polished ...