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icehawk on Sept 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The daguerreotype is famous – why not the calotype...

Famous enough for me to know the word "daguerreotype" as a teenager in the 90s when looking at what I know now was probably a tintype.

kazinator on Sept 19, 2023 [–]

I first learned about the daguerrotype in the writings of Gabriel García Márquez.

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