The Silver Canvas - Daguerrotype Masterpieces (Art Photography E

Bates Lowry, Isabel Barrett Lowry, "The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces"
1998 | ISBN: 0892365366 | English | PDF | 256 pages | 22.86 Mb

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light.