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Peep-show boxes and magic-lantern shows had already emerged—entertainments that, like Daguerre's diorama, would be displaced by new protocinematic devices and eventually by cinema.
A Small World After All Kristin M. Jones 2011
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Peep-show boxes and magic-lantern shows had already emerged—entertainments that, like Daguerre's diorama, would be displaced by new protocinematic devices and eventually by cinema.
A Small World After All Kristin M. Jones 2011
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In 1841, two years after the announcement of Louis Daguerre's photographic process in France, the English polymath Henry Fox Talbot patented a process for making photographic negatives.
A Remembrance of Haunts William Meyers 2011
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This series installed here in the section called "Daguerre's Soup: What Is Sculpture?" shows various found objects in close-up (a rolled-up bus ticket, a blob of toothpaste, a clump of bread) and originally appeared in a 1933 issue of Minitaure with captions by Salvador Dal
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Although, as a contemporary noted at the time, the boulevard in question was "constantly filled with a moving throng of pedestrians and carriages", the street in Daguerre's early photograph appeared to be completely deserted "except for an individual who was having his boots brushed."
Never Yet Melted 2009
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Only a man who had to remain still while his shoes were polished by a boot-black, was completely captured on Daguerre's silvered copper plate.
Never Yet Melted 2009
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But it was Daguerre's advances with silver-plated copper sheets, iodine and mercury that cut exposure time down to minutes and created positive rather than negative images.
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But it was Daguerre's advances with silver-plated copper sheets, iodine and mercury that cut exposure time down to minutes and created positive rather than negative images.
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Daguerre's instruction manual was translated into a dozen languages within months.
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Daguerre's instruction manual was translated into a dozen languages within months.
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