The Daguerreotype: Contemporary work by Jonathan Danforth

Although it’s not particularly my cup of tea, there are quite a few Daguerreotype collectors out there in the world. The only Daguerreotypes that I own are those that I’ve made myself so I don’t have very much to say about the hobby of collecting old photographs.

This blog, however, does. In particular, author TheresNoTylerDurden posted an interesting account of his meeting with one Greg French. The aptly surnamed Mr. French is a Daguerreotype collector of some years and shared his insight with the author on the rewarding activity of Daguerreotype collection. Enjoy the article, I did.

-Jonathan

Four of the world’s top Daguerreotypists, Mark Kessell, Mike Robinson, Alyssa Salomon, and Jerry Spagnoli will be participating in a panel discussion at Aperture’s gallery at 547 West 27th Street in New York on Thursday 12/7 at 6:30PM.

The title, “The Daguerreotype Today,” is somewhat amorphous but I’m hopeful that the discussion will cover more of the artistic reasons that my peers have chosen for working in Daguerreotypes and less of the technical miscellany.

The event is free to the public and I highly suggest you attend.
(Slightly) More information after the jump.

-Jonathan

My sister pointed out that my site was not particularly friendly to those of you using low-resolution monitors so I have redesigned elements of this site to be more friendly to visitors using 1024×768. Since I was tinkering, I decided to revamp the navigation header since the old one was getting on my nerves and was incompatible with low resolution displays.

I dropped off five brand new cased Daguerreotypes at Through This Lens Gallery today. Roylee, the owner, is planning to show them in January. The magazine article in CRAFT should be coming out around (more…)