{"id":32173,"date":"2025-08-20T01:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32173"},"modified":"2025-08-20T00:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:13:04","slug":"yikes-we-missed-the-anniversary-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/yikes-we-missed-the-anniversary-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"yikes! we missed the anniversary yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Early Paris Street Scene taken by Louis Daguerre with his process in c1838<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Serious photography historians and collectors know what is meant by a Daguerreotype. In early January 1839, French newspapers published the electrifying news that Louise Daguerre had discovered a way to capture a scene by sunlight and make the image permanent.<\/p>\n

But the papers carried no information on how to make and process such an image. That is, until 19 August, 1839<\/strong> when Daguerre’s “idea was then effectively sold to the French Academy of Sciences, which subsequently gifted the process to the world on 19 August 1839.” Daguerre received a “generous income” for this act. However, people in England were obliged to pay a fee to use the process. Jabez Hogg promoted the idea of photographing through a microscope … until he saw the demand for a fee (I have a few editions of Mr Hogg’s book on the microscope).<\/p>\n

When the idea came to celebrate photography by naming a day, it was decided to celebrate each 19 August<\/strong> as the beginning of photography. \u00a0My thanks to \u00a0Digital Camera World for reminding me within article posted on the 19th: “World Photography Day: what is it, and why is it today?<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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