Poe Daguerreotype Sells at Sotheby’s for $150,000
At $10,859 per square inch, William A. Pratt is seriously commanding the moolah for his work. A 1849 quarter-plate copy daguerreotype of poet Edgar Allan Poe sold at Sotheby’s on 10-17-2006 for $150,000 against a $30-50,000 estimate.
Considering that this is the second image of Poe to appear at auction in over 100 years, I’m frankly surprised that this portrait didn’t claim a higher bounty.
Incidentally, I’m available to make copy daguerreotypes for museums and private collections. Perhaps I will start charging by the square inch. That seems to have worked for Sotheby’s.
-Jonathan
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In a show called “Out of Darkness: The Contemporary Revival of Early Photography”, the curators of the UCF art gallery are displaying works by Chuck Close, Sally Mann, Jerry Spagnoli and Abelardo Morell and others. This should make for a really good show, check it out if you’re in the Orlando area.
The show attempts to examine “contemporary photographers who choose to have direct contact with the photographic process in its most basic forms.”
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Jerry Spagnoli joins the 21st Century
Daguerreian pacesetter and artist Jerry Spagnoli has finally published a website, thereby joining the 21st century with his 19th century craft no doubt thanks to the recent release of his book.
For those who don’t know, Jerry Spagnoli is one of those responsibe for the modern resurrection of the Daguerreotype process. Jerry is the Batman of the Daguerreotype world. Though there probably hasn’t been a year since 1839 where somebody, somewhere, hasn’t made a Daguerreotype, Jerry really took a shine to the process and helped greatly in the resurgence of popularity. Jerry has experimented with what photography can do for a very long time from his art-meets-science photomicrographs to his radiant megacosmic images in the Pantheon series.
Welcome to the club, Jerry.
-Jonathan