The single-frame photographic media form, as distinct from moving-image forms. Belongs here: photography as a media form. A single live entry today, kept as its own group because it is a canonical, named medium in this atlas's own DataBrief spine, not a near-duplicate of moving image; more still-image forms such as illustration are expected as the atlas widens. Does not belong here: film, animation or the newsreel, grouped under moving image.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of photography, Daguerreotype sectionQuote, Wikipedia: History of photography, Daguerreotype section
On August 2, 1839 Daguerre demonstrated the details of the process to the Chamber of Peers in Paris.
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