Did you know that when the daguerreotype was announced back in 1839, one of the people who wrote about the new groundbreaking technology was the famous poet Edgar Allan Poe?
After the world’s first publicly announced photographic process was unveiled in January 1839, Poe wrote an article for the Philadelphia paper Alexander’s Weekly Messenger in January 1840 titled, “The Daguerreotype.” In the piece, Poe called the invention “perhaps the... more