The first type of photography that took minutes rather than hours was a result of a painter who shut himself in a lab for nearly two years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...