On 9 January 1839, the French Academy of Sciences revealed the daguerreotype process to the world. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the technique and his 1837 still life entitled L'Atelier de ...

In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...

The barber had one. So did the shopkeeper, the taxidermist and the wheelwright. In 1840s America, portraiture was no longer the prerogative of the elite, laboriously painted in oil on canvas. With the ...

The exact date and location of the landfall of the daguerreotype process in Sri Lanka is still a matter of dispute. Three possible destinations, which can vie for this distinction are Colombo, Kandy ...

Eighteen thirty-nine saw the invention of the first recognized, commercial form of the photograph, the daguerreotype, which was named after its inventor, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. The ...

Before digital, before film, before tintypes and the collodion process, before the word “photography” was even official, French inventor Louis Daguerre gave us the daguerreotype. It was the first ...

Ironically, the core purpose of portrait photography—inscribing identity in an “irrefutable assertion of existence,” as theorist Roland Barthes noted in Camera Lucida—is often rendered defunct by ...

The 'selfie' has become such an integral part of our everyday lingo that the Oxford Dictionary recognised it as 2013's word of the year. Its definition reads as "a photograph that one has taken of ...

Louis Daguerre devised the daguerreotype, the first successful form of permanent photography. The French physicist developed the process for transferring photographs onto silver-coated copper plates.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their mirror-like surfaces make their subjects appear ...