Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [image-making processes and techniques]
6. [photography and photographic processes and techniques]
7. photographic processes
8. direct positive processes
9. daguerreotype (process)

Anotations

Scope note:

Variant of the daguerreotype process devised by Claude-Abel Niépce de St. Victor, distinguished by the use of silver chloride to produce natural color. The image cannot be fixed, and therefore is impermanent. In the early 20th century, sometimes used to mean color photography in general.