The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

Among a collection of daguerreotypes for sale at Christie’s is one made by Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, ...

If you grew up here, chances are you either rode the Zephyr at Pontchartrain Beach or heard family members wax nostalgic ...

Now, together with Gilles Bencimon of Radio France Internationale, he has discovered a photo reproduction of a daguerreotype depicting (most likely) Fryderyk Chopin. The daguerreotype was made in 1847 ...

The daguerreotype was the first widely available ... and treating it with light-sensitive fumes before exposing it to a camera, and then drawing the latent image forth with mercury vapor and ...