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Did you know that portrait photography is nearly 180 years old? The first commercial photography studios of the 1840s produced one-off photographs on a silvered copper plate, known as daguerreotypes. The natural successors to miniature paintings, daguerreotypes cost around one guinea each – an expensive luxury at the time, often beyond the means of ordinary working people. Amateur photography has existed for as long as professional photography, but for many years mainly the a