In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...
The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the ...
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I bought a daguerreotype at a flea market. I was surprised at how modern the photograph looks
I’ve had a longtime obsession with old cameras – but among my collection of analog photo gear is a much smaller treasure: a daguerreotype. Encased in a leather-wrapped hinged case, the mirrored finish ...
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SAW a rapid improvement in photographic technology. In 1839, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype photo process, which utilized a silver plate and mercury to ...
The invention of photography must have seemed miraculous. Imagine: Point a funny-looking box at something, just wait a bit, and then you had an exactingly — no, spookily — lifelike image. Photography ...
NEW YORK – Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will present the exhibition Adam Fuss Daguerreotypes & The Womb of the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination from September 28 – December 2, 2016. Over three decades ...
INTRIGUED BY AN extraordinary portrait of 19th-century London, I joined this summer’s post-pandemic hordes and ventured to the historic spot to attempt a repeat. Within a year of Louis Daguerre’s ...
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announces two exhibitions of early American photography to premiere July 1 alongside the reinstallation of “Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900” in the ...
NEWBURYPORT – Dr. Henry Coit Perkins had a good eye, kept great notes, and probably had no fear of heights. Those traits came together one day in October 1839, when Perkins hauled his daguerreotype ...
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