#daguerreotype
Daguerreotype portrait of a sailor smoking a pipe in Cairo, Egypt, taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1843-1844.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Daguerreotype portrait of two men posing with the grave of Solomon Harthorn somewhere in California, c. 1853.
Source: Sotheby’s.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a group of Italian shepherd musicians known as Pifferari photographed by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey in Rome, the Papal States, 1842.
Source: Sotheby’s.
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Daguerreotype portrait of two unidentified women taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, c. 1842-1855.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Daguerreotype view of a crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City taken by an unidentified Italian photographer in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1845. One of the earliest photographs of Vatican City.
Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Daguerreotype portrait of two men posing in a street in Rome, the Papal States, 1842. By French photographer Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey.
Source: Sotheby’s.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a young Nubian man possibly selling food in Aswan, Egypt, 1844. By French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.
Source: Gallica Digital Library.
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Postmortem daguerreotype portrait probably showing two parents posing with their deceased child, European, c. 1855.
Source: Sotheby’s.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a group posing with a camel near Alexandria, Egypt, taken by French photographer Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842. A windmill is visible in the far distance.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Daguerreotype portrait of British abolitionist and Member of Parliament George Thompson taken by photographer Richard Beard, c. 1841.
Source: Boston Public Library.
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Oda Nobuyoshi 織田信福 (1860-1926) - Civil right activist and dentist - Daguerreotype - Japan - 1880
Colorised by Kai Studio
Animated by MyHeritage / D-ID
![tuesday-johnson:ca. 1855, [daguerreotype of erotic scene in a hayloft], attributed to Felix Jacque](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw1yysV1n51qa51rdo1_500.jpg "tuesday-johnson:ca. 1855, [daguerreotype of erotic scene in a hayloft], attributed to Felix Jacque")
ca. 1855, [daguerreotype of erotic scene in a hayloft], attributed to Felix Jacques Antoine Moulin
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daguerreotype portrait of unknown young lady taken circa 1850s in pre-civil war America #vintage #monochrome #1850s #pastlives #oldphoto #retro #goodolddays #victorian #daguerreotype #portrait #beauty #fashion #victorianchaps #nostalgia
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Portrait of Free French Creole men by photographer William A. Pratt, pre-Civil War Virginia, late 1850s #victorianchaps #nostalgia #victorian #oldphoto #pastlives #daguerreotype #retro #1850s #portrait #dandy #vintage #Virginia #creole #goodolddays (at Virginia USA)
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The daguerreotype shown here was the first one purchased for LCP’s Graphic Arts Collection, but why this example of an unidentified man taken by an unknown photographer was worthy of acquisition remains a puzzle.
It was incorrectly identified as a quarter-plate daguerreotype in the Library’s accession book, indicating that at least some of the Graphics Art Department staff was still learning about this type of material.
Portrait of an Unidentified Man, ca. 1850. Ninth-plate daguerreotype.
Southworth & Hawes, Unidentified Woman, ca. 1852
(Source: the wonderful Flickr of George Eastman House)
“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections of Photography
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Southworth and Hawes, Portrait of a woman in nine oval views, 1845-1861 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (Multiple portrait), 1927 (Collection Folkwang Museum, Essen)
Since its beginnings, photography has been a perfect medium to show the many faces of the human being …
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Platt D. Babbitt (American, 1822-1879) American Falls from below Prospect Point, Niagara, ca. 1850, whole plate daguerreotype, Gift of Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer, George Eastman House Collection
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This beautiful hinged box contains the picture of a young man. The raised musical scene appears on both the front and the back of the closed box. On one side of the opened box his picture is enclosed in a brass colored ornate oval frame. Inside, the daguerreotype is faced by a dark green velvet which has been pressed to create a raised brocade pattern. When I looked this up, I found that this method was sometimes used to preserve these early portraits. The box is not heavy and may be made of what I found described as pressed sawdust and shellac. There is some lightweight glass-like covering over the picture.
I found this among Mother’s possessions when it was too late to ask her where she had gotten it. At one time, it must have been precious to someone and I couldn’t bear to part with it.
So this post is a tribute to all the people who have saved this picture for over 150 years. Maybe some of the others didn’t know just whom they were cherishing either.
My own dog, Otis, poses for his doguerreotype! Order your Alternate Petstories here: http://bit.ly/1LeY8bi
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