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daguerreotype
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da·guerre·o·type  (d-gâr-tp)
n.
1. An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate.
2. A photograph made by this process.
tr.v. da·guerre·o·typed, da·guerre·o·typ·ing, da·guerre·o·types
To make a daguerreotype of.

[French, after Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre.]

da·guerreo·typer n.
da·guerreo·typy n.

daguerreotype [dag-gair-oh-type]
Noun
a type of early photograph produced on chemically treated silver [after L. Daguerre, its inventor]

daguerreotype
an obsolete form of photography in which images were produced on chemically treated plates of metal or glass. — daguerreotypic, daguerreotypical, adj.daguerreotypist, n.
See also: Photography
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Noun1.daguerreotypedaguerreotype - a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
photo, photograph, pic, exposure, picture - a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material


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The interplay of opaque and transparent materials produces an eerie optical effect, imitating the spectral qualities of a daguerrotype.
The quality of reproduction is excellent, with colour occasionally, and unexpectedly, used to suggest the qualities of albumen prints and daguerrotypes.
Friedrich Nietzsche of the late eighteen-seventies, Maldrich daguerrotype from the Goethe-Schiller Archives, a profile shot, whisk broom of a moustache--was razor-released from a library dust-jacket.
 
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