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    photographer Carl Dauthenday‚ for stating “some observers of photographs found the little faces in the images to be so real that they must be looking back at them” (2002‚ p.203). In an announcement in Paris’ Literary Gazette (1839‚p.28)‚ the Daguerreotype was described as a revolution in the arts. “We have much pleasure in announcing an important discover made by M. Daguerre‚ the celebrated painter of the Diorama. This discovery seems like a prodigy. It disconcerts all the theories of science

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    meaning sun drawings‚ which required eight hours of exposure. Later in Paris Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre invented a similar process called daguerreotype. It involved the use of a silver plate sensitized by iodide and then exposing it in the camera obscura‚ and then the plate was kept on mercury solution and finally fixed by salt solution. The daguerreotype produced a much clearer picture than the previous heliograph and the exposure time was also reduced. Although both these methods were similar

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    (Fixing of images formed at the focus of a camera obscura)‚ Comptes rendus‚ 8 : 4-7. 16. Daguerre (1839)‚ pages 1-4. 17. See: (Arago‚ François) (1839) "Le Daguerreotype"‚ Comptes rendus‚ 9 : 250-267. Daguerre‚ Historique et description des procédés du Daguerréotype et du diorama [History and description of the processes of the daguerreotype and diorama] (Paris‚ France: Alphonse Giroux et Cie.‚ 1839). 21. "Life and work of Janez Puhar | (accessed December 13‚ 2009)". 22. Michael R. Peres (2007)

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    1839. She writes that "London and Paris separately announced the idea at about the same time". The first idea came from a man named Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. His idea was called the "daguerreotype" which contained a "laterally reversed monochrome picture on a metal plate". It was said that the daguerreotype was "unique"‚ and "unduplicatable". ("A World History of Photography" para.1)

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    formed a partnership with Joseph to improve the process Niepce had developed. In 1839 after several years of experimentation and Niepce’s death Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography‚ naming it after himself – The Daguerreotype. Daguerre’s process fixed the images onto a sheet of silver plated copper. He polished the silver and coated it in iodine‚ creating a surface that was sensitive to light. He then put the plate in a camera and exposed it for a few minutes. After

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    by immersing it in salt. This discovery was made public on the 19th of August 1839 and it was named ‘Daguerreotype’. As much joy this new discovery made‚ it also was an uninvited invention and not all people welcomed this exciting discovery. Some ‘Pundits viewed it in quite sinister terms’ and some artists at the time saw photography as a threat to their work and ‘livelihood’. The Daguerreotype was very expensive and each picture was a one off and could not be repeated‚ and if there is a need for

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    An Investigation of the History of Photography and Early Cinema Before 20th Century Media History Course Supervised by Dr. Jonathan Stubbs Prepared by Niwar A. Obaid December 2‚ 2013 Introduction Ever since 1839 photography has become an essential means of communication and expression.  In its early years‚ photography ’s unique powers of visual description have been used to record‚ report‚ and inform. As stated by Beaumont Newhall (1982: 7)‚ photography "is at once a science and

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    History of photography From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia. "Photography" is derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") The word was first used by the scientist Sir John Frederick William Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light‚ or related radiation‚ on a sensitive material. The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Photography is the result of combining several

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    most associate post-mortem photography to the Victorian period in Europe and‚ to some lesser extent‚ the United States. Post-mortem photography was very popular in this 19th century period because the invention of the first photographic process‚ daguerreotype (a photographic process‚ which a picture on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor‚

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    1839‚ Daguerre refined the process and further reduced the exposure time to under a minute. This breakthrough method was aptly named “Daguerreotype‚” and quickly gained worldwide popularity. In 1841‚ William Talbot introduced “Calotype‚” which used photosensitive paper instead of metal plates. Although the pictures weren’t quite as clear as with Daguerreotype‚ they could be easily reproduced countless times from a single negative. Yet another decade later‚ Frederick Archer developed the wet-collodion

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