Sentences with word «daguerreotype»

Danh made daguerreotypes of the landscape and film portraits of the park's rangers cradling big chunks of volcanic rock — 19th century equipment to create decidedly 21st century views.

Close also crosses artistic boundaries by taking works from daguerreotypes and presenting them in a variety of media including colossal tapestries and photogravures.

[15] Ever since, the artist has also continued to explore difficult photographic processes such as daguerreotype in collaboration with Jerry Spagnoli and sophisticated modular / cell - based forms such as tapestry.

The show is organized in two parts, with a chronological installation of photos, including a case filled with daguerreotypes dating back to 1840, just a year after the medium first became commercially available.

The exhibition, curated by Jerry Spagnoli, examines the contemporary use of those techniques and includes daguerreotypes by Takashi Arai, Adam Fuss, and Craig Tuffin; Stephen Berkman's albumen prints from wet - collodion negatives; Dan Estabrook's calotypes and salt prints; ambrotypes by Luther Gerlach, Craig Tuffin, and Matthias Olmeta; Vera Lutter's camera obscura photography; Sally Mann's positives; and «photogenic drawings» by France Scully Osterman & Mark Osterman.

We will present a wonderful mix of works, from rare early daguerreotypes through to contemporary takes on these early techniques.

A Prophet's Tahar Rahim stars as an out - of - work nobody who answers an ad to become the assistant to a semi-retired fashion photographed (Olivier Gourmet) who lives in a creepy manor and is obsessed with taking life - sized daguerreotype photos of his strange and beautiful daughter (Constance Rousseau, whose nystagmus defines her character's otherworldliness).

Fiber artist Jodi Colella was working on an art project inspired by the museum's headwear collection, and she stumbled upon a series of daguerreotype portraits.

The acclaimed Japanese photographer Takashi Arai has been making daguerreotypes since 2010 to create individual records, or «micro-monuments,» of subject matter relating to nuclear history.

Using his unique method for creating chlorophyll print photograms on tree leaves, Dahn then reproduces them in daguerreotype form to memorialize the faces of the Cambodian genocide.

The only two - dimensional work in the exhibition is Close's Self - Portrait / Five Part (illustrated top), a tapestry based on daguerreotypes of the artist's head at various angles joined together to form a panoramic view.

From the earliest daguerreotypes through gelatin silver prints and contemporary digital images, Skinner handles a breadth of important historical and fine photography.

True, that was more than a century ago, but if the innocent wonder of those who saw the first daguerreotypes seems incomprehensible now, here is a place where you can recapture it — in the rue Dubourdieu, on the outskirts of the old center of Bordeaux, France.

And the images we see have a stark beauty, with the actors framed like daguerreotype photographs, staring into that unhopeful horizon.

More than 100 images, from the 19th - century daguerreotype to today's inkjet prints, illustrate the range of gardens that have fascinated photographers, and how both subject and medium stimulate one another: photographers wanted to capture nature, and nature became the perfect subject as they experimented with new techniques and processes.

Consider early panoramic daguerreotypes by figures such as Friedrich von Martens and William Southgate Porter, the former of the Seine in Paris, 1845, the latter of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works, 1848.

With a bushy walrus moustache and weary eyes, he could easily be an old daguerreotype photo come to life.

It includes 129 photographs spanning from 1968 to the present, ranging from black and white portraits to monumentally scaled composite Polaroids, to intimately scaled daguerreotypes.

She is the author of Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (Yale, 2000), Charles Demuth Poster Portraits: 1923 — 1929 (1994), and American Daguerreotypes from the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection (1989), and co-editor of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Yale, 2008).

Today, Danh's silver daguerreotypes of national parks are superreflective, like mirrors.

I began collecting daguerreotypes and other early photographs when I was 16.

A survey of Chuck Close's Polaroid and daguerreotype nudes and Big Nude (1967), a 10 - by - 21 foot painting never before publicly exhibited in New York

From an original daguerreotype taken by J. T. Zealy, 1850.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS It's easy to see Fuss's cameraless photograms and latter - day daguerreotypes as reactions to our digital era, in which photography's ring of truth has a hollow sound...

Daguerreotype exposures were long, the mercury they required dangerous, and the plates fickle.

«Lincoln» was made to be enjoyed by everybody, but the more you've read and the more daguerreotypes you've seen, the more you'll appreciate the film's astonishing re-creation of historical tableaux, such as Lincoln's visit to the battlefield or the scene outside the Capitol on the occasion of his second inaugural.

The objects on view include rare daguerreotypes and vintage photographs, such as Roger Fenton's iconic The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855) from the Crimean War and an early print of Joe Rosenthal's Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.

Chuck Close explores another mode of intimate knowledge between artist and sitter by using the archaic daguerreotype photographic process.

These plastic prototypes found their way into a few decorative items, such as daguerreotype cases, but they were really only intimations of things to come.

Understanding how silver daguerreotypes corrode may help improve today's industrial materials.

Early photographic technology was slow and cumbersome: Daguerreotypes needed 20 minutes or more to record an image of the moon, and telescope mounts were balky and often imprecise.

Until recently such questions were best left to daguerreotype collectors, photohistorians, and a handful of others with a taste for the antiquated.

Then in 1990, the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, organized its first daguerreotype workshop.

The finished daguerreotype is a jeweled, one - of - a-kind object, no bigger than a hand mirror and shimmering with an eerie light.

Because daguerreotypes drink in so much light, exposures have to be extraordinarily long: 25 seconds, 50 seconds, and 75 seconds in this case.

Yet, no matter where they appear, Roversi's pictures always manage to look both of the moment and timeless, retaining the magic of old - school daguerreotypes.

The Greek prefix epi -(ἐπι - over daguerreotype Historically, the first photographic process that actually worked, producing a positive image directly on a highly polished, silvered copper

And is there any living actor who more resembles daguerreotypes of the wizened Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens than Jackie Earle Haley?

Reading The Geographer's Library is like stepping into a sepia - toned daguerreotype: The past here holds all the clues.

While Danh's previous daguerreotypes reconsider pioneering nineteenth century landscape photography, these new works bring to mind important historical precedents that include the albumen prints of San Francisco created by Carlton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge from the 1870s and 80s.

A bare mattress alone, in another silvery daguerreotype, is that much more weighty and yet evanescent — not to mention unburdened of associations with Mercury, Tiresias, the Caduceus, vaginas, Victorian childhoods, and the British variant on the game of Chutes and Ladders.

Antoine Claudet (French, b. 1797 d. 1867), Portrait of Lady L. Synge — Hutchison, ca. 1851, daguerreotype hand coloured.

This shift in perception is exemplified in a button with a tiny, cropped daguerreotype inside of it.

The media in «The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes» and «Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting» have vanished, and neither one left copies.

Perhaps next time Chuck Close, who already over the years has adopted first overt gesture and now daguerreotypes, will continue his march backward through the centuries and start pouncing his traces into fresco.

National Portrait Gallery presents The Meade Brothers: Pioneers in American Photography in the museum's gallery dedicated to daguerreotypes June 14 through June 1, 2014.

Utilizing the modern computer - aided methods of tapestry, Close is now able to approximate, in woven images, the mirror - like illusionism characteristic of the 19th Century photographic glass daguerreotype.