Daguerreotype
ダゲレオタイプ / 1839–1860s / Technique / Photographic Printing
The first practical photography, fixing the image directly on silvered plate: a mirror-reversed unique image in a velvet case — the origin of owning a picture.
The mirrored silver plate / A unique reversed image / Jewel-like cased presentation / Painfully fine detail
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Daguerre's announcement, 1839 / its arrival in Japan / contemporary daguerreotypists