Photoshop tutorial showing how to transform a new photo into looking like an old, Daguerreotype photo from the 19th century.

Astronomers were among the first to embrace this technique; the first images of the sun and of a solar eclipse were both captured on daguerreotypes in the 1840s. By the end of the nineteenth ...

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 ...

Not too dissimilar from this camera, the first established form of photography was the daguerreotype, which made images by exposing photosensitive copper plates to light. Photograph from ...

Since daguerreotypes are made on a polished silver plate they reflect just like a mirror. I looked closely at the photo (it was beginning to tarnish around the edges. ) and could see my reflection ...

filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts to obtain rights to two widely-known daguerreotypes stored at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The images in question depict two enslaved ...

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 ...