Louis Daguerre announced his early photographic process, the Daguerreotype, at a French Academy of Sciences meeting on Jan 9, 1839. Lisa Pellegrino looked back on the early years of photography with Dr Elisa deCourcy, an Art historian specialising in the nineteenth-century history of photography and ARC Fellow in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at ANU.
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