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The daguerreotype was the very first commercially successful photographic process. Introduced in 1839, the daguerreotype bears the name of its inventor, Louis Jacque Mandé Daguerre. The process is unique in that it is based on the light sensitivity of pure silver metal to the halogens, iodine, bromine, and chlorine. Other silver based photographic processes require the combination of silver ion in solution (silver nitrate) with a halide (iodide, bromide, and chloride) also in solution. Following Daguerre’s specifications the process was slow, suitable only for landscapes and still lifes. However, after several improvements to the process by many artists and chemists the process was capable of exposures short enough for portraiture by the early 1840s.