World's Oldest Camera Fetches $800,00 at Auction
Sunday, May 27, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275722,00.html
The world's oldest commercially produced camera — built in 1839 in the early days of photography — was auctioned off this weekend for nearly $800,000, an auction house said.
The camera, a Daguerreotype by Susse Freres of
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World's Oldest Camera Fetches $800,00 at Auction
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Pictured above - - one of the earliest known daguerreotype images:
L’Atelier de l'artiste : un daguerréotype de 1837, réalisé par l’inventeur de ce procédé photographique, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851). Source: [Société française de photographie]. Date: 1837 Auteur: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851)
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