Sentences with phrase «with daguerreotypes»

American history can be traced with daguerreotypes, and other fine art photography from early photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins.

ICP's collection includes over 150,000 works with daguerreotypes, gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints, and a host of American and European documentary photography from 1930 to 1960, among the collection.

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.

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

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

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

Five minutes on the velvet buff, he says, then five minutes on the buckskin buff, repeat for half an hour, then another five minutes with iodine and bromine «sensitizing» boxes before three daguerreotype plates are camera - ready.

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

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink - jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray - scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111 - color screenprint.

Mat COLLISHAW Deliverance 47 2008 daguerreotype with silver - plated copper, glass, birch wood, black lambskin leather, brass, and velvet case inside acrylic box 15 x 22 inches; 38 x 56 cm (exterior box) 10 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches; 26.7 x 41.3 cm (case size) 10 x 8 inches; 25.4 x 20.3 cm (image) Edition of 10

This thematic exhibition brings together work from across the medium's history — from daguerreotypes to slide projections to video installations — that consider the way photography's complex and ever - changing relationship with time has reflected and inflected our ideas about permanence and obsolescence, history and memory.

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).