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"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
mirror-like surfaces make their subjects appear ethereal and other-worldly –
but they are also sharp images often with incredible detail.
The daguerreotype was used internationally during the 1840s and for much of
1850s concurrently to the paper-based calotype and, later, the
collodion-on-glass ambrotype.
The first photographs of First Nations people were taken with daguerreotype
technology. And, the earliest colonial exhibitions of photography, in Adelaide,
Kaurna Country in 1845 and Sydney, Gadigal Country, in 1848, were of
daguerreotypes.
By the mid-1850s, there were daguerreotype studios in all colonial Australian
capitals with many itinerant photographers travelling to offer daguerreotype
portraits in regional centres."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
