Daguerrotype

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" The daguerreotype was the first type of practical photographic reproduction, though the process was very difficult and had limited applications as a result of the time needed to produce an image. The process was used for about a decade before it gave way to a different process, but in that time the daguerreotype was an important means of preserving images from the early period of photography.

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre was born in 1789 and died in 1851, the year when his process began to give way to the wet collodion process. Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Seine-et-Oise, France. He was originally a scene painter in the theater, and in 1822 he established the Diorama, a theatrical spectacle that required large panoramic paintings. He would achieve accurate details and perspective in these huge paintings.."

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