The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the ...

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 ...

Every year, on August 19, we observe World Photography Day – a globally recognized celebration of the photograph and its history. What actually is World Photography Day, though, and why does it take ...

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 ...

This date recognises Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's invention of the Daguerreotype in 1837, gifted to the world on August 19, 1839. The French gifted the Daguerreotype process to the world, except for ...

Millions of Americans will see a total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, and many of them will point their cameras skyward to capture the celestial event. But it wasn’t so long ago that a solar eclipse was an ...

The exact date and location of the landfall of the daguerreotype process in Sri Lanka is still a matter of dispute. Three possible destinations, which can vie for this distinction are Colombo, Kandy ...

In addition to his work in telegraphy, Samuel F.B. Morse opened a portrait studio in New York City and taught the daguerreotype process of photography. Courtesy Library of Congress 1840: Samuel F.B.

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 ...

Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest photographic images in Australian gallery, library and museum collections. These tiny, pocket-sized photographs look quite foreign to us today. Their ...