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	ArtLex on Daguerreotypes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Daguerreotype images, most of which were portraits, require viewing from a certain angle, but their permanence was a tremendous achievement in the emergence of photography.
		Although the daguerreotype process process was largely discarded in the mid-1860s, overtaken by the development of other photographic techniques, it has seen something of a revival in recent years.
		This daguerreotype of Lincoln is the earliest known portrait of the 16th president of the United States.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/d/daguerreotype.html (397 words)

	Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: Spring 2002
		Continuing in the vein of Janin, daguerreotypes are thus compared to the art of engraving as far as the reproduction of nature is concerned, but they are distinguished in terms of their almost magical fidelity to what is reproduced and in their original debt to light rather than human agency.
		The daguerreotype was thus recast in terms of the degenerate, deceptive illusion of the Diorama (the "counter-proof of reality"), as opposed to the reproductive capacity of art, a distinction Janin avoided.
		In his condemnation of the artistic pretensions of the daguerreotype, then, Töpffer employs concepts borrowed from both the industrial arts and the Diorama and pushes the envelope in terms of the lack of manual intervention that allows photography to be seen as a "popular" invention.
	www.19thc-artworldwide.org /spring_02/articles/pins_print.html (10057 words)

	American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype - CHAPTER I Procedures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is this nicely-balanced combination which ensures, in the highest degree, a union of the essential qualities of a fine Daguerreotype, viz., clearness and strength, with softness and purity of tone.
		This must be done by the sitter inclining the head and bust formed to a natural, easy position, and placing the hands closely to the body, thus preserving a propel proportion, and giving a lively familiarity to the general impression.
		While it is true that a little color may relieve the dark metallic look of some Daguerreotypes, it must not be concealed that the covering of the fine delicate outline and exquisite gradations of tone of a good picture with such a coating, is barbarous and unartistic.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/tech/photography/AmericanHandBookoftheDaguerreotype/chap1.html (6544 words)

	Early Photographic Processes - Daguerreotype
		A daguerreotype photograph is a faint negative image, but with good detail, on the copper plate, as a result of its very thin image on the metal surface.
		Daguerreotypes were normally mounted behind glass in small hinged cases with velvet lining.
		It is similar to the original Daguerreotype process practiced in the 1840s, except that the plates are developed by exposing them to light through rubylith or amberlith, available from repro houses, rather than by exposure to the hazardous fumes of hot mercury.
	www.edinphoto.org.uk /1_early/1_early_photography_-_processes_-_daguerreotype.htm (1243 words)

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		The first photograph, the daguerreotype, was made on a silver-coated ("brazed") copper plate, which was, for all practical purposes, a mirror.
		Daguerreotype of an old lady, born about 1760, who may have remembered with crystal clarity the American Revolution.
		A tiny daguerreotype of a bearded man that originally was set in some type of jewelry which is no longer present.
	www.jimlyons.com /photoid.html (512 words)

	Louis Daguerre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851) was the French artist and chemist who is recognized for his invention of the Daguerreotype process of photography.
		Daguerre announced the latest perfection of the Daguerreotype, after years of experimentation, in 1839, with the French Academy of Sciences announcing the process on January 9 of that year.
		Daguerre's patent was acquired by the French Government, and, on August 19, 1839, the French Government announced the invention was a gift "Free to the World." However, Daguerre himself deposed the patent for England on August 12, and this greatly slowed the development of photography in Great Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis-Jacques_Daguerre (212 words)

	Light and dark: the daguerreotype and art history. - The Art Bulletin - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This is the subtext to Foucault's daguerreotype of the solar spectrum, produced as a consequence of multiple exposures of his plate to three different kinds of light in an effort to measure their respective intensities.
		Most French daguerreotype portraits tend to show their subjects in a stiff and formal pose, facing directly into the camera in a studio setting, with heads and bodies held still for the relatively long exposure by a hidden armature designed expressly for this purpose.
		By 1846, for example, a small daguerreotype portrait could be commissioned from a commercial photographer for as little as four francs, and this at a time when the average daily wage was about three francs and a seat at the opera might go for nine francs.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:126422076&refid=holomed_1 (14160 words)

	The Social Construction of the American Daguerreotype Portrait: The American Reception
		The discourse that surrounded the daguerreotype, from its invention though the period of its dominance, centered on ideas of accuracy, legitimacy, and infallible perception.
		The daguerreotypes were a form of art, according to Knickerbocker, and a remarkable one, but like Morse, the magazine was entranced most of all with their accuracy.
		The tint has largely faded from surviving daguerreotypes (and they are almost always reproduced in fl and white), but it is clear in the few tinted daguerreotypes that we can examine (see Figure 1) that the color is anything but "realistic." It is cartoonish, really; if it represents natural color, it is only by analogy.
	www.americandaguerreotypes.com /ch1.html (3483 words)

	Daguerreotype Photographs: The Daguerreotype (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The invention was announced to the public on August 19, 1839 at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.
		The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative.
		The earliest cameras used in the daguerreotype process were made by opticians and instrument makers, or sometimes even by the photographers themselves.
	rs6.loc.gov /ammem/daghtml/dagdag.html (489 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: Light and dark: the daguerreotype and art history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Each daguerreotype, for example, was hung on the wall in splendid isolation, equally spaced from the pictures on either side of it.
		The invention of the daguerreotype was officially announced in Paris on January 7, 1839, to wild acclaim.
		Early daguerreotypes are a mirror reflection of what the camera saw, resulting in laterally reversed images (some later cameras incorporated mirrors in front of the lens, so that the image was re-reversed).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_4_86/ai_n8680937 (1319 words)

	At Home : Artwork : Pre-Civil War Daguerreotype : Home & Garden Television
		Daguerreotypes start with a silver-coated copper plate that is put in a camera and exposed to light, and the image is developed by exposing the plate to the fumes of heated mercury.
		The value of a daguerreotype depends on a large number of factors, including the size of the image (larger is generally better), the subject matter (military and outdoor scenes are much more desired than simple portraits of ordinary people) and the condition (both daguerreotypes and ambrotypes are very delicate).
		Daguerreotypes and ambrotypes are usually found in some sort of case, and the absence of the case in this instance detracts from the photograph's value.
	www.hgtv.com /hgtv/ah_antique_artwork/article/0,1801,HGTV_3082_1981948,00.html (572 words)

	Lost and Found: Terms & Technologies: Daguerreotype: Here's Looking at Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Daguerreotype: Here's Looking at Me Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre circulated a notice in 1838 to attract investors in his recent invention of the daguerreotype.
		The image was usually protected by a plate of glass, held in place by a gold-plated mat, and contained as a precious memento in a small, embossed leather case or a carefully crafted plastic "Union" case, adorned with velvet on the inside and tiny brass clasps on the outside.
		The wizardry of its image is encapsulated by the view initially that the daguerreotype was a product of alchemy: magical because of its combination of mysteriously superimposing the subject's image on the polished silver plate and of doubling as a mirror to include the reflected face of the viewer.
	imsc.usc.edu /haptics/LostandFound/terms_daguerreotype.html (492 words)

	daguerreotype -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Daguerreotypes were on metal; photogenic drawings were on paper.
		The daguerreotype rendered detail to a degree that was remarkable; the photogenic drawing, because of the fibrous...
		Before the end of 1839, travelers were bringing back to Paris daguerreotypes of famous monuments in Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Spain; from them engravings were made that were published in two volumes as Excursions daguerriennes between 1841 and 1843.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028530?&query=daguerreotype (764 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Daguerreotype
		Daguerreotype, first practical photographic process, announced by François Arago at the Paris Académie des Sciences on August 19, 1839.
		This account of a demonstration of the Daguerreotype by its inventor appeared in The Times on September 10, 1839, one month after the announcement...
		The popular desire to enjoy photography in colour is evidenced in the frequency with which hand colouring was used to enhance early images.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Daguerreotype.html (99 words)

	A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: The DAGUERREOTYPE
		Many of the daguerreotypes that remain are noticeable for their detail, and this caused quite a sensation at the time.
		In fact, a daguerreotype in the International Museum in Rochester, depicting a chapel, states that the picture was taken between 4:40pm and 5:30pm on 19 April 1840.
		The daguerreotype, aptly called a "mirror with a memory", was an amazing development, and one cannot but marvel at the intricacy of the detail.
	www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/daguerro.htm (994 words)

	The American Museum of Photography: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The daguerreotype process, the first practical form of photography, was made public in August of 1839, but seldom able in its earliest form to produce portraits.
		The earliest daguerreotypes tend to have bluish or slate grey tones; a brown-toning process called "gilding" came into widespread (but not universal) use late in 1840.
		Daguerreotypes have exceptionally fragile surfaces and for this reason, they were always furnished behind glass in frames or small folding cases.
	www.photography-museum.com /primer.html (1963 words)

	American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype - CHAPTER V Daguerreotypes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For some time it was a question among the operators generally, as to the beneficial result of electrotyping, the Daguerreotype plate, but for a few years past our first operators have found it a fact, that a well electro-silvered surface is the best for producing a portrait by the Daguerreotype.
		An old Daguerreotype plate attached to the opposite pole of the battery (copper side towards the face of the plate to be electrotyped), will answer the same purpose as the silver-plate.
		This is kept straight by means of a wire frame, and it is to be moved in front of the lower part of the body of the sitter during the time of exposure of the plate in the camera.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/tech/photography/AmericanHandBookoftheDaguerreotype/chap5.html (6604 words)

	ECPA: To have and to hold: Processes
		What greatly contributed to the success of the daguerreotypes was that the French government purchased the rights to Daguerre's process and gave it to the world for free.
		Daguerreotypes are positive images on copper plates with a highly polished silver surface.
		Daguerreotypes stayed popular until the 1850s, when they were gradually displaced by photographs on paper.
	www.knaw.nl /ecpa/photo/proces01.htm (1461 words)

	daguerreotype -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		They found that if a copper plate coated with silver iodide was exposed to light in a camera, then fumed with mercury vapour, and fixed (made permanent) by a solution of common salt, a permanent image would be formed.
		The first daguerreotype image was produced in 1837, by which time Niepce had died, so the process was named for Daguerre.
		Many daguerreotypes, especially portraits, were made in the mid 19th century; the technique was gradually replaced by the wet collodion process, introduced in 1851.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9362167?tocId=9362167 (801 words)

	Focus On: Daguerreotype of Faneuil Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There is also some public record of his early interest in daguerreotyping, so it is therefore possible that Joslin took this daguerreotype of Faneuil Hall sometime during the fall of 1839 or in 1840 (rather than May of 1839), either after reading Daguerre's booklet or attending a Gouraud lecture.
		This daguerreotype is in good condition; the rings visible around the image are caused by oxidation of the copper plate.
		The Massachusetts Historical Society has a collection of over 450 daguerreotypes, most of which are portraits that have come to the MHS individually or as part of collections of personal and family papers.
	www.masshist.org /Cabinet/may2003/may2003.htm (488 words)

	Authentication of the Lincoln Portrait Daguerreotype (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The owner of the daguerreotype, which had been purchased from a gallery in New York City in 1977, was Mr.
		The surface of a daguerreotype is covered with a thin film of a mercury/silver amalgram that affects light refraction.
		The Kaplan daguerreotype shows a robust, barrel-chested, erect young man. The outline of the trapezius muscle (between the neck and shoulder) is evidence of a muscular build.
	www.lincolnportrait.com /authenti.htm (4447 words)

	Secrets of the Dark Chamber: 19th C. Texts on the Daguerreotype
		Also included is a history of the daguerreotype in America written by those who had a firsthand role in its history or who were eyewitnesses to its development.
		These descriptions are a part of artistic accounts and writings on the aesthetics of the daguerreotype by masters of the process or significant observers, such as Rembrandt Peale.
		The daguerreotype was a dual product of science and art, and the role of science—chemistry and optics—in its history cannot be underestimated.
	nmaa-ryder.si.edu /collections/exhibits/helios/secrets/secrets_secretstoc.html (675 words)

	Daguerreotype (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The daguerreotype was the earliest practical photographic process, and was especially suited to portraiture.
		It was made by exposing the image on a sensitized silver-plated sheet of copper, and as a result, the surface of a daguerreotype is highly reflective.
		This program is funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State, State Library and Archives of Florida.
	www.floridamemory.com /OnlineClassroom/photographic-processes/daguerreotype.cfm (122 words)

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		Since portraits by the Daguerreotype are at this time believed to be more durable than any other style of "Sun-drawing," the author has hit upon the present as being an appropriate time for the introduction of the Fifth Edition of this work.
		Upon a Daguerreotype plate, from which an impression has been effaced by rubbing or otherwise, the picture may be made to reappear by merely coating it over with iodine.
		It is employed in the Daguerreotype process for dissolving silver, preparing chloride or oxide, nitrate of silver, [the former used in galvanizing,] and in combination with muriatic acid for preparing chloride of gold, used in gilding.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext94/amdag10.txt (19844 words)

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