Relating to or characteristic of daguerreotype photography, an early photographic process that produced mirror-like images on silver-coated copper plates.
Derived from 'daguerreotype,' which was named after Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, who invented the process in 1837 and made it public in 1839.
Daguerreotype portraits were so detailed and realistic that many people thought they involved some kind of magic—they'd never seen such lifelike images before, and these mirror-like photographs seemed almost supernatural to contemporary viewers.
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