Daguerreotype 3




Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) by Antoine Claudet (1797-1867), early or mid 1840s.

Claudet invented one of the improvements that made the Daguerreotype fast enough to take portraits; Faraday's association with photography began in January 1839 when he announced Talbot's discovery at the Royal Institution in London.

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