As a Latter-day Saint artist, Joseph Brickey had painted church founder Joseph Smith dozens of times. So he was naturally ...

180 years ago, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre conceived and invented the daguerreotype, and though this and other techniques had been explored by photographers years before, 1838 marked the beginning of ...

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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 ...

Ironically, the core purpose of portrait photography—inscribing identity in an “irrefutable assertion of existence,” as theorist Roland Barthes noted in Camera Lucida—is often rendered defunct by ...

Before digital, before film, before tintypes and the collodion process, before the word “photography” was even official, French inventor Louis Daguerre gave us the daguerreotype. It was the first ...

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, “Western Approach to the Acropolis, Athens” (1842) courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Monumental Journey is organized largely according to the route Girault ...

Lomography has had some pretty impressive success resurrecting old lenses and now they’re throwing back all the way to the 1830s to recreate the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens. The lens itself ...

Gold miners in California at their sluice box, c. 1850. See Photo Booth for a slide show of more daguerreotype images. In 1843, a Dartmouth College freshman named Augustus Washington needed to earn ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caleb and Phoebe Fidler, sixth-plate, cased daguerreotype, c.1852, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Private Collection Cased ...