daguerreotype
IPA: dˈɑgɝriʌtaɪp
noun
- An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
Examples of "daguerreotype" in Sentences
- The Daguerreotype was announced in 1839.
- These ideas led to the famous daguerreotype.
- Schrader was a maker of daguerreotype apparati.
- The photos have the simplicity of a daguerreotype.
- The daguerreotype was developed with mercury vapour.
- It is believed that de Mas used a daguerreotype camera in 1841.
- It's in fact a photomontage of a painting and a daguerreotype of his.
- His daguerreotype of Ulfeldts Plads is in the Copenhagen City Museum.
- That went on from the daguerreotype photos until the British left in the 1960s.
- It was an inexpensive process, especially in comparison with the daguerreotype.