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daguerreotype

daguerreotype process

Created by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in 1839, the daguerreotype the first successful form of photography. Many American photographers gravitated to the process, because it was able to get a true likeness. It sparked the opening of many portrait studios from 1840-1850. The process created highly detailed images on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative.