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The barber had one. So did the shopkeeper, the taxidermist and the wheelwright. In 1840s America, portraiture was no longer the prerogative of the elite, laboriously painted in oil on canvas. With the ...

On March 23, 1840, a New Yorker named John William Draper became the first person to take a photo of the moon. [‘On This Day ...

The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...

Ironically, the core purpose of portrait photography—inscribing identity in an “irrefutable assertion of existence,” as theorist Roland Barthes noted in Camera Lucida—is often rendered defunct by ...

Before digital, before film, before tintypes and the collodion process, before the word “photography” was even official, French inventor Louis Daguerre gave us the daguerreotype. It was the first ...

There are lots of portrait photos in the Getty Museum’s exhibition “In Focus: Daguerreotypes,” but not many smiles. The photographers would not have been urging their subjects to say “cheese.” ...

The Smithsonian National Portrait gallery acquired a recently discovered daguerreotype of first lady Dolley Madison, paying multiples of a presale estimate to bring the historic portrait into its ...

If you thought that shooters like Olympus' E-P1 or Leica's M8 had old school aesthetics, think again. The real old school -- we're talking 1839 here -- was all about wooden boxes and brass lens ...