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An early daguerreotype studio, as depicted in a woodcut by George Cruikshank in 1842. This illustration shows the interior of Richard Beard's daguerreotype portrait studio at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London's Regent Street, the first professional photographic portrait studio in England, which opened in 1841. In this early period, Beard employed Wolcott's Mirror Camera, which used a concave mirror instead of a lens. Source, here
Examples of early daguerreotype photography below:
Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre in 1844 by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot
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