DAGUERRE GAVE LIFE TO AN ART FORM.(SHOWTIME)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | September 17, 1995 | Copyright

Byline: CHUCK MYERS Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON Even before French physicist and artist Louis-Jacques-Mande Deguerre announced his newly developed photographic technique, known as the "daguerrotype," in Paris on Aug. 19, 1839, intuitive word of mouth had brought reports of his innovation to the American press and a curious public.

Daguerreotypes, created when an illuminated image is exposed to a polished surface coated with an iodine vapor, and later separately treated with mercury and a sodium solution, proved immensely popular in ...

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