The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...
The barber had one. So did the shopkeeper, the taxidermist and the wheelwright. In 1840s America, portraiture was no longer the prerogative of the elite, laboriously painted in oil on canvas. With the ...
DOVER — In the summer of 1850, a traveling daguerreotype artist arrived in Dover with a horse and cart. In the cart were the camera, chemicals and materials needed to make images appear on ...
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I bought a daguerreotype at a flea market. I was surprised at how modern the photograph looks
I was expecting a grainy, soft image, but daguerreotypes are actually fairly sharp and detailed ...
Standing in front of photographer Binh Danh’s daguerreotype of Yosemite Falls, on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., I saw myself staring back through the image. If you look ...
"Untitled (Self-Portraits)", 2012. Unique collodion wet-plate positives on metal, with sandarac varnish. “When you look at a 19th century portrait, there is a palpable sense of the person actually ...
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