daguerreotype

Meanings

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

• To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).

Origin

• From French daguerréotype. who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.