... sections, due to the fact that there are many different styles of portrait photography, Daguerreotype Portraits, Calotype Portraits, and Collodion Portraits are examples of 3 of these. A man named Louis-Jacques-mande Daguerre invented the Daguerreotype portraits in 1839. The Daguerreotype is a direct positive process; it created a high detailed image without the use of a negative. The process was done by creating the ... ...

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Derived from the Latin phrase meaning "dark chamber," the camera obscura is considered an ancient ancestor of the photographic camera (Encyclopedia Britannica Online, "Camera Obscura"). It consists of various small, darkened rooms that each have a single tiny hole that allowed sunlight to enter. The sunlight projects a reversed image of the outside scenery on the opposite wall of the room. This wall was often painted white so that the temporary image could be seen. This method of transferring images was very limited in its uses, but it became a popular way of looking at eclipses without damagi...

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... . 2), fulfilling "an ancient desire of mankind to create an imaginary world that would be as believable as the real world itself" (Museum Ludwig Cologne 1996). But it was Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre most importantly, who perfected his "daguerreotype" process to minute detail (Fig. 3). These premature stages of photography saw painter Paul Delaroche remark, "from today, painting is dead!" (Gernsheim 1962, p. 13 ... ...

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