Artist of the Week - Louis Daguerre

   

                                                                              Daguerre around 1844

View of the Boulevard du Temple, taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris, includes the earliest known photograph of a person. The image shows a busy street, but because the exposure had to continue for several minutes the moving traffic is not visible. At the lower right, however, a man apparently having his boots polished, and the bootblack polishing them, were motionless enough for their images to be captured. There is also what appears to be a young girl looking out of a window at the camera.

http://www.phototree.com/id_dag.htm

Daguerreotype = on a mirror-surface. It really is like the image is on a mirror, and the image appears and disappears as you change the angle.

                              Still life with plaster casts, made by Daguerre in 1837, the earliest reliably dated daguerreotype

                Ichiki Shirō's 1857 daguerreotype of Shimazu Nariakira, the earliest surviving  Japanese photograph

The solar eclipse of July 28, 1851, is the first correctly exposed photograph of a solar eclipse, using the daguerreotype process.

six daguerreotypes show a view of San Francisco, California, in 1853.

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Shells and fossils, 1839 (image in the public domain).

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/55431

Louis-jacques-mandé Daguerre

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