daguerreotype

Meanings

1. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
2. The process of making such photographs.
3. A faithful or exact representation or description.

1. To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
2. To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.

Etymology

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.