Sentences with phrase «in daguerreotype»

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.

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.

In a daguerreotype the white areas are the silver / gold speckles that scatter light in all directions.

Not exact matches

The instrument shoots X-rays at samples — in this case, a chip from the old daguerreotype.

«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.

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

Daguerreotypes and black - and - white photographs record only variations in intensity; color photographs record variations in wavelengths too.

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

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

Daguerre's technique, which used copper plates coated with silver, was made known to the public in 1839 and the images were called «daguerreotypes».

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).

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 daguerreotypIn 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 daguerreotypin which a photometer was coupled with a daguerreotype.

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

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).

The most exciting episodes include Turner turning down an offer to sell his life's work for 100 thousand pounds (a princely sum in the mid-1800s), getting his daguerreotype photograph taken by a swell salesman, and flirting with a widowed boarding house owner (Marion Bailey), where he frequently stays as «Mr. Mallard.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

A New and Mysterious Art: Ancient Photographic Methods in Contemporary Art brings together an international cohort utilizing the 19th century photographic techniques of daguerreotype, calotype, camera obscura, and more to produce vibrant and evocative images.

Samaras has been the subject of several portraits by Chuck Close, in media including painting, daguerreotype, and tapestry.

As I thought about what size and type of works would complement the clusters of collages, it occurred to me that I wanted to include large - format Polaroid's, framed in such a manner as to recall the earliest daguerreotypes that were a direct influence to artists such as Courbet.

In the late1990s, Close began experimenting with daguerreotype, creating the first daguerreotype nudes of his friends and acquaintances in 200In the late1990s, Close began experimenting with daguerreotype, creating the first daguerreotype nudes of his friends and acquaintances in 200in 2000.

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

[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.

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.

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.

The painter Paul de la Roche in 1839, perfectly expressed his shock in the «new» upon seeing the first photograph, a daguerreotype, by saying, «From today, painting is dead.»

Mike teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in 19th Century Photographic Processes at Ryerson University in Toronto and a Phd candidate with DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK, and his dissertation is titled, The Techniques and Material Aesthetics of the Daguerreotype.

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

Contemporary works featured include Barbara Kasten's Site 16: Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, cibachrome print, 1987 ($ 6,000 to $ 9,000); Philip - Lorca DiCorcia's Untitled (Strip Club), chromogenic print, 1980s ($ 5,000 to $ 7,500); Tracey Moffatt's Beauty (In Wine), chromogenic print, 1994 ($ 5,000 to $ 7,500) and Adam Fuss's Butterfly daguerreotype from the artist's My Ghost series, 2000 ($ 10,000 to $ 15,000).

Although the prisoner in this photograph remains anonymous, Danh restored a sense of dignity to him, reproducing the image as a one - of - a-kind daguerreotype and reframing the picture as a reverential memorial rather than a dispassionate record of inhumanity.

Out of the Dark Room: works from The David Kronn Collection comprises 165 photographs from the collection, which ranges in content from 19th - century Daguerreotypes to the 20th - century photography of Edward Weston and August Sander and works from award - winning contemporary photographers, such as the husband and wife team of Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard, and the Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi.

Two gallery shows, a museum exhibit and a conference are shining a spotlight on preindustrial image - making methods such as daguerreotypes, tintypes, calotypes, salted - paper prints and more — experimental processes that were often difficult to manage and unpredictable in their results.

From the time it was commercially introduced in 1839, photography has undergone continuous technical and conceptual changes — from the first daguerreotypes to today's digital prints.

In the days before smartphones and cameras and even the daguerreotype, important public events were recorded through painting.

In his recent work, Close has managed to reinvent a pictorial language famously based on photography by breaking down the narrowness of photographic restrictions (this is most evident in his tapestries — two self - portraits and seven of friends, including Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brad Pitt, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Lorna Simpson — that are based on daguerreotypes or Polaroids and woven by the legendary Jacquard loom in BelgiumIn his recent work, Close has managed to reinvent a pictorial language famously based on photography by breaking down the narrowness of photographic restrictions (this is most evident in his tapestries — two self - portraits and seven of friends, including Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brad Pitt, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Lorna Simpson — that are based on daguerreotypes or Polaroids and woven by the legendary Jacquard loom in Belgiumin his tapestries — two self - portraits and seven of friends, including Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brad Pitt, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Lorna Simpson — that are based on daguerreotypes or Polaroids and woven by the legendary Jacquard loom in Belgiumin Belgium.)

This Daguerreian Gallery exhibition will trace the trajectory of Brady's early career through portrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted - paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

Other significant additions include a suite of 25 photographs from Lewis Baltz's seminal 1971 series The Tract House; a rare early self portrait by Sally Mann from 1976; Laurie Simmons» 1987 gelatin silver print, Walking Camera (Jimmy the Camera); Lorna Simpson's 1991 Coiffure, a triptych of gelatin silver prints and ten engraved plastic plaques; Chuck Close's daguerreotype portraits Cindy Sherman and Self - Portrait, both from 2000; and Hiroshi Sugimoto's Oscar Wilde (2000), all of which complement works by these artists already in the collection.

An exhibition of contemporary photographs using 19th - century photographic techniques and processes — daguerreotypes, photogenic drawings, calotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and camera obscuras — is currently on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

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

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...

BOSTON Adam Fuss 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...

Nearly every photographic process from its origins — daguerreotypes, albumen silver prints, gelatin silver prints, gum bichromates, platinum silver, cyanotypes and even digital archival prints — are in the collection, making it a keen contribution to the history of the medium itself beyond Albany's city limits.

From there, the exhibit jumps back in history, though among the 170 - year - old daguerreotypes, a single contemporary image sits.

[3] From 1970 to 1972, she studied daguerreotypes while working as an assistant to Werner Bokelberg in Hamburg.

This Daguerreian Gallery exhibition traces the trajectory of Brady's early career through portrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted - paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.