Martin M. Lawrence (1808–1859) was an American

daguerreotypist Daguerreotype (; french: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre an ...

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Mathew Brady Mathew B. Brady ( – January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the American Civil War, Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique ...

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Jeremiah Gurney Jeremiah Gurney (October 17, 1812 – April 21, 1895), was an American daguerreotype photographer operating in New York. Biography Gurney worked in the jewelry trade in Saratoga, New York, but learned about the daguerreotype from Samuel M ...

, Lawrence was known for his large daguerreotypes known as "mammoths" and allegorical subjects.{{cite book, first=Beaumont, last= Newhall, title=The Daguerreotype in America, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gp0fPG7UcXwC&pg=PA56, year=1976, publisher=Courier Corporation, isbn=978-0-486-23322-2, pages=56–61 He was one of the few American photographers who exhibited at the

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in London, winning a prize for his work. He was elected president of the American Daguerre Association in 1852.{{cite journal, first=S. D. , last=Burchard, title=Martin M. Lawrence and the Daguerrean Art, journal=The Photographic Art-Journal, volume= 1, year= 1851, pages=103–106, url= https://archive.org/stream/photographicartj11851snel#page/n77/mode/2up

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