The Second Invention of Photography Daguerreotype Samuel F. B. Morse, Portrait of a Young Man, 1840 s Theodore Maurisset La Daguerreotypomanie 1840 Unknown Photographer, 1843 Robert Cornelius, Seated Couple, 1840 “Were you ever Daguerrotyped, O immortal man? And in your zeal not to blur the image, did you keep every finger in its place with such energy that your hands became clenched as for fight or despair, and in your resolution to keep your face still, did you feel every muscle becoming every moment more rigid: the brows contracted into a frown, and the eyes fixed as they are fixed in a fit, in madness, or in death; and when at last you are relieved of your dismal duties, did you find the curtain drawn perfectly, and the coat perfectly, and the hands true, clenched for combat, and the shape of the face and head? But unhappily the total expression escaped from the face and you held the portrait of a mask instead of a man.” -Ralph Waldo Emmerson Frances Benjamin Johnston c. 1850 “By the end of the century, for the first time in history, even the poor man knew what his ancestors had looked like.” – John Szarkowski Photographer Unknown, California Miner,1850 Samuel J. Miller Portrait of Frederick Douglas 1852 Unknown photographer, 1850 George N. Barnard, Burning of Oswego Mills, July 5, 1853 Photographer Unknown, General Wool and Staff, Calle Real, Saltino, Mexico, 1847 Photographer Unknown, General Wool and Staff, Calle Real, Saltino, Mexico, 1847 Artist Unknown, Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery, at the Battle of Palo-Alto, 1846 Noel Lerebours, Portail de Notre Dame de Paris from Daguerrian Excursions, Showing the World’s Most Remarkable Views and Monuments, 1840-44 Calotype William Henry Fox Talbot, An Oak Tree in Winter, 1842-43 Photographer Unknown, Panorama showing Talbot’s Reading establishment, 1845 Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, 1844 William Henry Fox Talbot, Insect Wings, as seen in a Solar Microscope, 1840 William Henry Fox Talbot, The Haystack, 1844 William Henry Fox Talbot, Articles of China, from The Pencil of Nature, 1844 Anna Atkins Cyanotype Process Anna Atkins Asperococcus echinatus 1850 Anna Atkins Dictyota dichotoma 1850 Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1843 “Art-Science” Anna Atkins Laminaria bulbosa 1850 Is Photography Art? “The daguerreotype is a useless means of making portraits…mathematical verisimilitude and lifeless precision do not do justice to a portrait, for which one needs expression and life; these can only be conveyed by the animating strength of talent and thought of an individual- no machine can do this.” -Review of exhibition of daguerreotypes at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1839 Artist Unknown, The Art of the Future, 1859 “The artist, even in photography, must go beyond discovery and the knowledge of facts. He must create and invent truths, and produce new development of facts.” Albert Sands Southworth Self Portrait 1848 Vermeer 1665-66 Monet 1886 Picasso 1932 DeKooning 1952
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