The Daguerreotype By Lee Clark

What is a Daguerreotype A Daguerreotype is a form of photograph that has been around since the early 1830’s. The Daguerreotype is made with highly polished silver coated copper plate. There was a different and similar form known as a tintype where the process was similar and the material who was different. 1839 was the year the first successful daguerreotype was made The tintypes real name ferrotype and is usually created with a thin sheet of metal It was given the name because of the tinny feel from the metal they were using

Contemporary Daguerreotype Even today there are photographers that use daguerreotypes for photographic work and they can produce some amazing and unique imagery. The process is the same that it was nearly 200 years ago and the results can bring out some amazing imagery.

Chuck close Close is a daguerreotype photographer and does portraits with this process and the detail in the images are amazingly detailed, you can see every pore and every wrinkle with the images produced from the daguerreotype. Work that he produces of people have so much detail they look almost life like. Looking in a mirror Self Portrait Kate Moss Fashion Icon and Musician

Jerry spagnoli Spagnoli has been a photographer since the mid 1970’s and has been most famous for his work with the daguerreotype processes. His work with the daguerreotypes range from portraits to landscapes and anatomical studies. His daguerreotype work started in 1995, when using using this he thought it would be a gate to a new expansion of ideas. Spagnoli also did some work at a heirloom harvest which is a farm festival and they sell what they harvest.

A daguerreotype camera

Louis Daguerre Daguerre creator of the daguerreotype and this was made in 1826. Daguerre was originally a celebrated designer of the theatre because of his skill of a theatrical illusion. Niepce was an inventor that Daguerre was teamed with and they made the first permanent photographs and after Niepce’s death in 1833 Daguerre advanced his camera and the process was eventually named the ‘Daguerreotype’

Daguerreotype camera diagram

Daguerreotypes define a photograph A daguerreotype is a form of a photograph and is also a process of a photograph. If anything a daguerreotype is one of the most defining photographs as it captures every piece of detail capturing the set amount of seconds of exposure for the image to be created. Modern ways using a daguerreotype taking landscapes has developed an expansive to take images using the daguerreotype and therefore creating ways to capture incredible images using this form of photography.