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daguerreotype
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Definition:[1839 - 1859ish]the first widespread photographic process. It had a few quirks: the image produced was a mirror-image, the subject often had to sit still for a long time, toxic chemicals (mercury, for instance) were required for the process. It tarnished when exposed to air and scratched easily therefore the photo had to be sealed in glass yet kept from touching the glass with a passe-partout or similar matte frame.
image: Louis Daguerre (1844), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Daguerre_2.jpg
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when he saw himself and his whole family fastened onto a sheet of iridescent metal for an eternity, he was mute with stupefaction. That was the date of the oxidized daguerreotype in which José Arcadio Buendía appeared with his bristly and graying hair,
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.54 (1970)
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he was sure that sooner or later he would get a daguerreotype of God, if He existed, or put an end once and for all to the supposition of His existence.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.58 (1970)
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Delaroche is often quoted as saying 'from today, painting is dead'. The observation was probably made in 1839, when Delaroche saw examples of the Daguerreotype, the first successful photographic process.
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At last, Charles, having shut the door, asked him to see himself what would be the price at Rouen of a fine daguerreotypes.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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At this table was seated Uncle Tom, Mr. Shelby's best hand, who, as he is to be the hero of our story, we must daguerreotype for our readers. He was a large, broad-chested, powerfully-made man, of a full glossy black, and a face whose truly African features were characterized by an expression of grave and steady good sense, united with much kindliness and benevolence.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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The man and woman stepped into the room stiffly side by side as though right out of a familiar, though esoteric, anniversary daguerreotype on a wall. They were both short, sere and proud.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.183 (1961)
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The word photography was first used in 1839, and it was in that year, too, that Louis J. M. Daguerre revealed to the French Academy that an image formed on a silvered metal plate covered with a thin film of silver iodide could be developed in the presence of mercury vapor.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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