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Enlace: http://photomuse.org/EXHIBITIONS/DAGUERRO/main.html

Descripción: Photomuse.
«There is something essentially strange and unknowable about the daguerreotype. When Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's process was first announced at the Institute of France in Paris on August 19, 1839, those who had learned the details shouted to spectators anxiously waiting outside, ³Quicksilver! Iodine! Hyposulphite of Soda!² One observer reported, ³Everyone pricked his ears, but nobody understood anything.² How and why the first form of practical photography came as a luminiferous metallic mirror, instead of something like a drawing on paper or painting on cloth, as anticipated, astonished all.»