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The Daguerreotype

Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science


M. Susan Barger, William B. White

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Examines how contemporary photographers and scientists understood the technology of the daguerreotype, the first photographic method, used from 1839 to the mid-1850s. Details the modern explanation of its mechanics and reviews the current means of image preservation and restoration. Of interest to historians of technology, and those involved with preservation efforts.

 

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Dimensions (in inches): 1.29 x 10.96 x 8.49
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; (May 2000)
  • ISBN: 0801864585