Daguerreotype facts for kids
A Daguerreotype is a method of creating photographs that is no longer in general use. A man called Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process in France in 1839.
The new type of photography became very popular very quickly as it was capable of capturing a "truthful likeness." By 1850, there were over seventy daguerreotype studios in New York alone.
However the popularity of the daguerreotype was short lived as other cheaper processes were invented. By the late 1850s faster and less expensive processes such as the ambrotype, became available. A drawback of the Daguerreotype was that there was no negative from which to produce lots of images. Each picture was therefore unique, the only way to get a copy was to rephotograph the image.
Images for kids
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The first authenticated image of Abraham Lincoln, a daguerreotype of him as U.S. Congressman-elect in 1846, attributed to Nicholas H. Shepard.
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19th century printed reproduction of a still life believed to be a circa 1832 Niépce physautotype (glass original accidentally destroyed circa 1900)
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Daguerreotype camera built by La Maison Susse Frères in 1839, with a lens by Charles Chevalier
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Title pages of Daguerre's 1839 manual, published soon after Arago's lecture to meet the intense public demand for more information about the process.
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The earliest reliably dated photograph of people, View of the Boulevard du Temple was taken by Daguerre one spring morning in 1838 from the window of the Diorama, where he lived and worked. It bears the caption huit heures du matin (translation: eight o'clock in the morning).
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Camera obscura, from a manuscript of military designs. 17th century, possibly Italian
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1840–1841 camerae obscurae and plates for daguerreotype called "Grand Photographe" produced by Charles Chevalier (Musée des Arts et Métiers)
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The earliest known photograph of a living animal (excluding humans). This daguerreotype was taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey while visiting Rome between April and July 1842.
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A daguerreotype photograph of the Nobel House in Turku from 1842
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Graphic representation of the steps involved in making a daguerreotype
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Daguerreotype mounted on a box, in the National Archives of Estonia
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Portrait of a Daguerreotypist Displaying Daguerreotypes and Cases pictured in an airtight frame.
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Device to hold heads still during the long exposure time required to make a daguerreotype portrait
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Advertisement for a traveling daguerreotype photographer, with location left blank
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Small Wooden box containing uncased primitive daguerreotypes. They are the early work of Dr John Draper and Samuel Morse at NYU in the fall of 1839. A failed image attempt and four good images from the box are posted in this gallery.
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Failed image attempt by John W Draper from the box containing his early efforts at making daguerreotypes at NYU in the fall of 1839
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Dr John William Draper, long credited as the first person to take an image of the human face, sitting with his plant experiment , pen in hand, at NYU in the fall of 1839. Daguerreotype by Samuel Morse 1839.
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Samuel Morse, Art Professor at NYU in 1839. Daguerreotype by Dr John William Draper 1839.
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Theodore Frelinghuysen, President Of NYU in 1839. Daguerreotype by Dr John William Draper 1839.
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Dr Martyn Paine. One Of the founders Of the NYU medical school Daguerreotype by Dr John William Draper 1839.
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Andrew Jackson at age 78.
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Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, aged 74 or 75, made by Antoine Claudet in 1844.
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Shimazu Nariakira, made by Ichiki Shirō in 1857, the earliest surviving Japanese photograph
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The solar eclipse of July 28, 1851, the first correctly exposed photograph of a solar eclipse using the daguerreotype process
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Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, made by Hermann Biow in February 1848.
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José de San Martín, made in Paris 1848.
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Conrad Heyer at age 103 in 1852, possibly the earliest-born American ever photographed (born 1749)
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Frédéric Chopin, c. 1849
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See also
In Spanish: Daguerrotipo para niños
