What's Wrong with Daguerre?
Author | : Hans Rooseboom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : 9789081629416 |
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Author | : Hans Rooseboom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : 9789081629416 |
Author | : Sarah Kate Gillespie |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0262034107 |
The American daguerreotype as something completely new: a mechanical invention that produced an image, a hybrid of fine art and science and technology. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as “the American process.” The daguerreotype—now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages—was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the “American process,” tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. By the 1860s, the daguerreotype had been supplanted by newer technologies. Its rise (and fall) represents an early instance of the ever-constant stream of emerging visual technologies.
Author | : Helmut Gernsheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This book contains the definitive account of Daguerre and the daguerreotype. It covers Daguerre's early work as the perfecter and promoter of the diorama; his collaboration with Niépce, the first man to produce a photograph, imperfect though it was; his extension of Niépce's experiments after Niépce's death; and the eventual development of the daguerreotype : a remarkably sensitive positve on a metal plate.
Author | : Bates Lowry |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000-02-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892365366 |
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Author | : John Bankston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781584152477 |
In the early 18th century the only way to preserve an image was with a pen, paper, or other drawing tools. Though several people had made progress in the development of photography, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre is perhaps the most famous. Daguerre spent most of his life as an artist. He was used to manipulating light and working with the chemicals of his paints. He sketched the images from a camera obscura and created realistic drawings. Using the camera obscura, Daguerre made an early photograph. In partnership with Niepce, Daguerre sought to make a lasting image. Though Niepce died in 1833, Daguerre continued to experiment. Between 1835 and 1837, he perfected his process, an early form of photography. Book jacket.
Author | : Dominic Smith |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007-01-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781416551904 |
The debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos reimagines the life of Louis Daguerre, the inventor of photography, who becomes convinced that the world is going to end when his mind unravels due to mercury poisoning. He is determined to reconnect with the only woman he has ever loved before the End comes. Louis Daguerre's story is set against the backdrop of a Paris prone to bohemian excess and social unrest. Poets and dandies debate art and style in the cafes while students and rebels fill the garrets with revolutionary talk and gun smoke. It is here, amid this strange and beguiling setting, that Louis Daguerre sets off to capture his doomsday subjects. Louis enlists the help of the womanizing poet Charles Baudelaire, known to the salon set as the "Prince of Clouds" and a jaded but beautiful prostitute named Pigeon. Together they scour the Paris underworld for images worthy of Daguerre's list. But Louis is also confronted by a chance to reunite with the only woman he's ever loved. Half a lifetime ago, Isobel Le Fournier kissed Louis Daguerre in a wine cave outside of Orleans. The result was a proposal, a rejection, and a misunderstanding that outlasted three kings and an emperor. Now, in the countdown to his apocalypse, Louis wants to understand why he has carried the memory of that kiss for so long.
Author | : M. Susan Barger |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801864582 |
Our scientific work gave us the opportunity to take a new look and interpretation of the scientific and technological literature on the daguerreotype and to reevaluate its technical history.--from the Preface to the 1999 edition
Author | : Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael R. Peres |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 865 |
Release | : 2013-05-29 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1136106138 |
This volume is a complete revision of the 1996 third edition, shares the ever-changing breadth of photographic topics with a special emphasis on digital imaging and contemporary issues. Produced by an international team of photographic and imaging experts with collaboration from the George Eastman House (the world's oldest photography museum), this fourth edition contains essays and photographic reproductions sharing information where photography and imaging serve a primary role, ranging from the atomic to the cosmic.
Author | : Victor Fouque |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |