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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.

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

They are famous. I am in my mid-40s and the term was discussed when I was growing up—despite the technology having been obsolete for 100 years.

Louis Daguerre was a French painter who created "daguerreotypes" a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style, like a mirror.