Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet used the new technology to create the first photographs of Jerusalem in early November 1839, just three months after the announcement of the daguerreotype. He was quickly ...

Stewart, and Andrew Szegedy-Maszak The invention of the daguerreotype and calotype processes fundamentally changed scholarly ... the new medium to capture what had up to then been represented only by ...

His invention, later named the daguerreotype, was based on a special ... Since then, the role of photography in science has only grown. Why have scientists always regarded photography so highly?

Daguerre gave his name to the daguerreotype ... was the Hungarian photographer Brassai who popularized night photography. In the early 1930s, Brassai’s Paris de Nuit documented the seedy ...

I looked closely at the photo (it was beginning ... were used to protect daguerreotypes from shattering (they resemble a woman’s make-up compact) were an example of early thermoplastic technology.

Now, together with Gilles Bencimon of Radio France Internationale, he has discovered a photo reproduction of a daguerreotype depicting (most likely) Fryderyk Chopin. The daguerreotype was made in 1847 ...

August 19 is recognized as“World Photography Day” in many countries, celebrating one of humanity's most significant ...

August: Noted French scientist Francois Arago, with Daguerre, announces the details of the first commercially practical photographic process, the daguerreotype, before a joint session of the ...

Coinciding with colonial settlement of Aotearoa, the invention of photography was a new way to record and make sense of the ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Each day we pick up our smart phones and perhaps snatch a photo or video of a ...