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daguerreotype: a standalone construct

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daguerreotype1 CONSTRUCTDaguerreotypeSILVER-MERCURY · 1839

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Photographic process / conservation science

A one-off image in silver on a mirror plate

A daguerreotype is the first commercially successful photographic process, a direct positive formed as a unique image on a polished silver-coated copper plate made light-sensitive with iodine vapour, developed with mercury, and fixed; the image is built from micrometre-scale silver-mercury particles that scatter light so the picture shifts between positive and negative as the mirror plate is tilted. Centeno and colleagues' 2011 The formation of chlorine-induced alterations in daguerreotype image particles studied these particles and how they degrade, part of the conservation science of the medium. The referent is this specific image-on-silver object and its material structure, a distinct photographic process rather than a general imaging concept.[1]

Unit
A unique direct-positive image in silver-mercury particles on a mirror plate
Recovery means
Not applicable
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Studied by electron microscopy and X-ray methods of the image particles and the corrosion products that alter them

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References

  1. Centeno, S. A., Schulte, F., Kennedy, N. W., & Schrott, A. G. (2011). The formation of chlorine-induced alterations in daguerreotype image particles: A high resolution SEM-EDS study. Applied Physics A, 105(1), 55–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-011-6570-2

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