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Daguerreotypes, Talbotypes

Portrait of an unidentified man with weapons.

Circa 1854.

Canadian Photography Institute

Related: The Age of Gold and Daguerreotypes

The Age of Gold and Daguerreotypes

NYT

Jan. 23, 2018

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/
the-age-of-gold-rush-and-daguerreotypes

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre    FR    1787-1851

William Henry Fox Talbot    UK    February 1800-1877

Having just been introduced by two men

working independently of each other

— Henry Fox Talbot in England

who claimed to invent

(negative) photography

and Louis Daguerre, in France,

the (positive) silver-plated copper image —

photography had

a multitude of possible identities

in the United States.

The daguerreotype

became one of the most popular methods

after it was introduced in the United States,

with studios established all over New York.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/
lens/the-earliest-days-of-american-photography.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/
lens/the-earliest-days-of-american-photography.html

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851)

and the Invention of Photography

daguerreotypes

Each daguerreotype

is a remarkably detailed,

one-of-a-kind photographic image

on a highly polished,

silver-plated sheet of copper,

sensitized with iodine vapors,

exposed in a large box camera,

developed in mercury fumes,

and stabilized (or fixed)

with salt water or "hypo"

(sodium thiosulphate).

Although Daguerre

was required to reveal,

demonstrate, and publish

detailed instructions for the process,

he wisely retained the patent

on the equipment necessary

to practice the new art.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm 

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/bradynote.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/29/
1031703142/smithsonian-acquires-rare-antique-portraits-from-first-black-photographers

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/31/
from-daguerreotypes-to-glass-plates-australias-oldest-images-photo-essay

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/
books/to-make-their-own-way-in-world-zealy-daguerreotypes.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/
lens/the-earliest-days-of-american-photography.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/16/
gold-stars-portraits-of-california-gold-rush-in-pictures

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/
the-age-of-gold-rush-and-daguerreotypes/

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/05/
484051741/national-park-daguerreotypes-invite-viewers-to-merge-with-the-land

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/mar/28/
mirror-race-america-slavery-19th-century-pictures 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/05/
emily-dickinson-new-photograph

talbotypes        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/
lens/the-earliest-days-of-american-photography.html

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