Do you know why is World Photo Day? On August 19, 1839, the French government acquired the patent of the daguerreotype and announced that the new process would be donated as a gift to the world. The daguerreotype was a revolutionary photographic process developed and named after its inventor Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. It is a unique image on a silvered copper plate, sensitized with iodine vapors, exposed in a camera obscura, developed in mercury fumes and fixed with salt water or sodium thiosulphate. It has a mirror-like surface and…
Celebrating 177 Years of Photography
