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Scanned from images of 30 or more species; they emerge slowly from surfaces treated to appear silvery gold, suggesting gilded daguerreotypes of unprecedented scale.

Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes opens, curated by Grant Romer, Brian Wallis, Erin Barnett, and Kristen Lubben; a catalog is published by Steidl.

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.

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

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

There are daguerreotypes of American Indians, a photograph of Malcolm X and a few Grateful Dead posters.

American astronomer William Cranch Bond and photographer John Adams Whipple produce the first photograph of a star when they take this daguerreotype of Vega.

In 1840, the American doctor and chemist John William Draper produced a daguerreotype of the Moon: the first astronomical photograph ever created in North America.

In 1850, two Americans — astronomer William Cranch Bond and photographer John Adams Whipple — produced the first photograph of a star when they made a daguerreotype of Vega (also known as Alpha Lyrae).

He made this daguerreotype of Cathedral Rocks and Cathedral Spires in June 2012.

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe from the studio of Masury and Hartshorn in Providence, Rhode Island, 1848.

Her «Black Girl's Window,» includes a daguerreotype of her own grandmother over a young black girl looking through the window.

Other notable lots included: a daguerreotype of a Shakespearean actor, ca. 1848, which sold for $ 3,712, compared with an estimate of $ 2,000 / 3,000; Peter Henry Emerson's platinum print titled Ricking the Reed, 1886, which sold for $ 3,125, compared with an estimate of $ 3,000 / 5,000; and Alfred Cheney Johnston's portrait of actress Fanny Brice, 1918, which sold on its low estimate for $ 2,500 (estimate: $ 2,500 / 3,500).

Not exact matches

«Since the daguerreotype is 150 years old, it allows us to fast - forward what we would usually have to simulate,» says Rose, of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

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

The Internet spread the news (ironically, daguerreotypes make great JPEG files: A backlit monitor simulates the effect of light scattering off the plate's silver background), and a very small revival began.

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

So within weeks of the first successful ether operation, Mass General, mindful of its historic role, hired the Boston firm of Southworth & Hawes to take a series of daguerreotypes.

This chemical layer gives the daguerreotype a degree of resolution far beyond that of any commercial film or pixel scanner.

Vega was the first star to be photographed, exposed for 100 seconds with the daguerreotype process through a 15 - inch refractor at Harvard Observatory on the night of July 16 - 17, 1850.

In 1844, the French physicists Jean Bernard Léon Foucault and Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau conducted a series of experiments for Arago in which a photometer was coupled with a daguerreotype.

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.

Blocker hates Native Americans, as is made clear from his closed - off face — as distant as a figure in a daguerreotype — and his grim reminiscences of surviving and committing atrocities during the Indian Wars.

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).

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce — The inventor of photography Louis Daguerre — Invented the popular and practical daguerreotype process Robert Cornelius — First selfie Henry Fox Talbot — Inventor of the photographic negative, allowing multiple prints Sir John Herschel — Coined the term «photography» Richard Leach Maddox — Invented practical gelatin dry plate negatives Eadweard Muybridge — World's first photo sequence George Eastman — Popularized roll film, created the first hand - held camera Oskar Barnack — Invented the portable Leica I Steven Sasson — Invented the first digital camera

Designed by David Kohn Architects, the centre will more than double the space devoted to photography in the museum and display a rotating selection of historic and contemporary photographs telling the story of the medium from the daguerreotype to the digital.

«Many photographic artists have switched from toxic chemicals to digital methods that only expose them to a small amount of ozone and particulate from laser printers,» she says, but others continue to use chemically based methods, including a daguerreotype process that produces toxic mercury vapors.

Recently, Danh has created a remarkable new series of daguerreotypes that he describes as «an ode to San Francisco.»

Curated by Jerry Spagnoli, a leading practitioner of the daguerreotype, this beguiling exhibition presents works by contemporary artists mining photography's rich technological and material history.

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.

Fuss's work is distinctive for its contemporary reinterpretation of photography's earliest techniques, particularly the camera-less methods of the daguerreotype and photogram.

Credit: Heavy Fixture, 2014, installation including gold, silver, stainless steel, Herkimer Diamonds, light, with Alber Sands Southworth (1811 - 1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808 - 1901), Unidentified Man (Thomas Cole) c. 1843 - 1848, whole plate daguerreotype, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film; Gift of Alden Scott with Thomas Cole's Box of Minerals, c. 1830 - 1848, 3 x 19 3/4 x 8, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Gift of Edith Cold Silberstein and the Greene County Historical Society, dimensions variable, Courtesy the Artist, George Eastman House, and Thomas Cole National Historic Site.

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.

Examples include Thomas Lawrence's iconic 1815 portrait — the basis of the design of the British five pound note from 1971 to 1991 — and a daguerreotype portrait taken on Wellesley's 75th birthday, loaned from the current Duke of Wellington's own collection (until 7 June).

He took up photography in 1843 using the daguerreotype, and later in the mid 1850s, became one of the first French photographers to use the calotype, a technique on paper developed in England by Fox Talbot, and introducing the principle of positive and negative.

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

None of his paintings depict any particular person, but they all have the same gaunt skeletal structure, with dark, empty eye sockets like the shaky long exposures of a daguerreotype photo.

Over the past twenty years, Fuss has created a distinctive style by reinterpreting some of photography's earliest techniques, particularly the camera-less methods of the daguerreotype and photogram.

The center's collection of more than 150,000 works includes daguerreotypes, gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints, and a host of American and European documentary photography from 1930 to 1960.

By appropriating and re-presenting nineteenth - century daguerreotypes that objectify South Carolina slaves, they acknowledged the history of oppression and gave these images a new voice of their own.

CHUCK CLOSE PHOTOGRAPHS A touring exhibition organized by the Parrish Museum of more than 90 photographs, from Polaroids to daguerreotypes.

The daguerreotype was a one - of - a-kind print created without the use of a negative.

The 1839 debut of the daguerreotype, as it became known, would signal a cultural revolution that offered a new form of realism so magical that it was met with apprehension, if not downright foreboding.

The exhibition will also look at the progression of portraiture, illustrating the medium's nearly immediate democratization through the use of daguerreotypes, albumen prints, and other early photo processes.

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.

The collection has grown to represent the full historical range of the medium, including early daguerreotypes, anonymous stereoviews, and cartes de visite; gelatin silver prints by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Ansel Adams; Kenneth Snelson's expansive panorama; landscapes by Carleton Watkins; photograms by Man Ray and Lotte Jacobi; and works by a range of contemporary American photographers, such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol (Polaroids).

The collection also includes all applications of the medium, from artistic pursuit to commercial enterprise and from amateur pastime to documentary record, as well as all types of photographic processes, from daguerreotypes to digital prints...

Chuck Close, American, born 1940, Kara, 2007, daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund © Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Gallery

Throughout his career, Close has explored various methods of creation, including painting, print - making, and photography, particularly large - format Polaroids and Daguerreotypes.

The first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the 19th century, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth - Century American Landscape Photography showcases some 175 works — from daguerreotypes and stereographs to albumen prints and cyanotypes — as well as several photographers whose efforts have often gone unheralded.