By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype – Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. This book presented nearly eighty masterpieces – many never previously published – from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Here you can download that book as a PDF file via the Getty Publications Virtual Library.