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• Early Photographic Processes: The Daguerreotype

  
  For the first instalment of this mini-series, we’ll take a closer look at the start of the captivating timeline of photography – from silhouettes to camera obscuras, from Niepce to Daguerre – and onto the development of the first photographic process.
  February 11, 2013 1 comment 8 likes

• Preserving History: Daguerreotypes and Nanotechnology

  
  Daguerreotypes are known as the earliest form of photography. Given its cultural and historical impact, it isn’t surprising that surviving samples are handled with great care and precision. However, it has been discovered that some daguerreotypes are slowly deteriorating.
  February 05, 2013 4 likes

• Today in History: Louis Daguerre is Born (1787)

  
  If he were alive today, Louis Daguerre, one of the founders of photography, would have been 225 years old.
  November 18, 2012 10 likes

• My Daguerreotype Boyfriend

  
  When early photography meets extreme hotness... and because having a crush on a living and breathing person is so mainstream.
  November 13, 2012 2 comments 14 likes

• ★ The First Photograph Taken in Finland

  
  Take a look at this historic gem of a photo that we spotted over at Vintage Everyday and The Crop Factor.
  November 12, 2012 2 comments 13 likes

• Is this the Second Known Photograph of Emily Dickinson?

  
  Attention, literature lovers and photography history buffs! There's a photo making rounds in the Internet, supposedly the second known photo of American poet Emily Dickinson. Could this be the real deal? Check it out after the jump!
  September 11, 2012 1 like

• ★ iPhone Glass Back Becomes Wet Collodion Photo Plate

  
  Old meets new yet again in this successful science-cum-art project by self-professed photo nerd Jake Potts of Bruton Stroube Studios. He was able to create a unique iPhone design by developing its glass back cover via the wet collodion process! How geeky cool is that?
  August 16, 2012 3 comments 21 likes

• Into the Darkroom: Daguerreotypes and the Beginnings of Photography

  
  "Into the Darkroom" is a mini series about photo processing, developing, labs, and, well, darkrooms! For the first installment, we're sharing this informative video about the first commercially successful photographic process: the daguerreotype. Learn how photographs were made way back in the 19th century. A must-see for every Lomographer!
  June 12, 2012 1 comment 8 likes

• Egg White, Salt and Silver Nitrate

  
  Since the beginning of photography there have been many photographic processes. Some of them remain to this day, some crashed and burned within two decades of their release even if the quality of the resulting image using that process what pristine. It's safe to say economics and practicality had a lot to do with it.
  March 20, 2012 3 comments 18 likes

• Happy 224th Birthday, Louis Daguerre!

  
  Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre would have turned 224 today. Turning photography on its head, Daguerre revolutionized photography with the invention of the process of photography that's appropriately called 'the daguerreotype'.
  November 18, 2011 1 like

• Blast From the Past: the Cincinnati Daguerreotype

  
  Arguably one of the earliest photographs taken of a human, this new discovery of a photo taken by Charles Fontayne and William Porter way, way back in 1848 is quite certainly one of the most interesting tidbit we've heard recently. Read on for more!
  November 02, 2010 9 comments 17 likes