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Daguerotype

Posted on 14 August 2012 by Carole

How workers spent a day’s wages for an honest photographic portrait of themselves http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm037.html  I’m interested in this history of the emergence of photography, and how workers paid for a portrait of themselves at work – a visual image that represented that identity.

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