“When you look at a 19th century portrait, there is a palpable sense of the person actually being there in the image,” photographer Jerry Spagnoli tells TIME. “It’s still an image. It’s in your hand.

Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest photographic images in Australian gallery, library and museum collections. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their ...

180 years ago, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre conceived and invented the daguerreotype, and though this and other techniques had been explored by photographers years before, 1838 marked the beginning of ...

Ironically, the core purpose of portrait photography—inscribing identity in an “irrefutable assertion of existence,” as theorist Roland Barthes noted in Camera Lucida—is often rendered defunct by ...

The George Eastman House released a 12-part video series last month that starts with the silhouette and traces photography's development through daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, Kodachrome, and right up to ...

There are lots of portrait photos in the Getty Museum’s exhibition “In Focus: Daguerreotypes,” but not many smiles. The photographers would not have been urging their subjects to say “cheese.” ...

Lomography has had some pretty impressive success resurrecting old lenses and now they’re throwing back all the way to the 1830s to recreate the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens. The lens itself ...

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The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...