On 9 January 1839, the French Academy of Sciences revealed the daguerreotype process to the world. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the technique and his 1837 still life entitled L'Atelier de ...

In 1839, Samuel Morse was in Paris to obtain a patent for the electro-magnetic telegraph he had developed in America, when he caught wind of another scientific wonder of the age: the daguerreotype.

In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...

The barber had one. So did the shopkeeper, the taxidermist and the wheelwright. In 1840s America, portraiture was no longer the prerogative of the elite, laboriously painted in oil on canvas. With the ...

Robert Cornelius, an American photographer and chemist, is credited with taking the world's first selfie in 1839. This historic photograph was created using the daguerreotype process, an early form of ...

At Elements today, Michelle Nijhuis explores the history and inevitable demise of the earliest photographic images, from the nineteenth century. While primitive compared to today’s photographic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their mirror-like surfaces make their subjects appear ...