In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...

After the invention of the daguerreotype in 1837 by French chemist Louis Daguerre and the earliest photos of the Moon – first by Daguerre himself, then by John William Draper in 1840 – photographic ...

DOVER — In the summer of 1850, a traveling daguerreotype artist arrived in Dover with a horse and cart. In the cart were the camera, chemicals and materials needed to make images appear on ...

Physicists have joined the battle to stop daguerreotypes – a prized, early form of photograph – from degrading any further, as Stephen Ornes reports (Courtesy: Southworth & Hawes/Powerhouse Museum) ...

Standing in front of photographer Binh Danh’s daguerreotype of Yosemite Falls, on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., I saw myself staring back through the image. If you look ...

"Untitled (Self-Portraits)", 2012. Unique collodion wet-plate positives on metal, with sandarac varnish. “When you look at a 19th century portrait, there is a palpable sense of the person actually ...