Daguerre
Americannoun
noun
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Ms Quinn said: "Daguerre developed a way of taking pictures using a polished silvered plate and a camera. This produced a single image printed directly onto a plate with astonishing clarity, named the daguerreotype."
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
Tuesday’s announcement will affect the Daguerre Point Dam near the Northern California city of Marysville.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023
The family, who wishes to remain unknown, had asked Malo de Lussac of auctioneers Daguerre Val de Loire to estimate the value of their house but instead discovered a masterpiece.
From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2023
Modern photography was born in 1839, when Louis Daguerre refined a process for capturing an image on silver-plated copper.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020
As they head toward Belle Isle he delivers a disquisition on the history of photography, how Nicephore Niepce invented it, and how Daguerre got all the credit.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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