The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...
DOVER — In the summer of 1850, a traveling daguerreotype artist arrived in Dover with a horse and cart. In the cart were the camera, chemicals and materials needed to make images appear on ...
I was expecting a grainy, soft image, but daguerreotypes are actually fairly sharp and detailed ...
The Daguerreotype process required lots of light, long exposures, and a sound understanding of chemistry to effect a photograph that was often difficult to see on the exposed silver plate. Starting in ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One of the earliest forms of ...
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