The Daguerreotype: Contemporary work by Jonathan Danforth

Our art is 169 years old as of January 7th.  It was on that day in 1839 that La Gazette de France announced to the world the process we know today as the Daguerreotype.  The article “declared the ‘invention’ to be so significant that it ‘upsets all scientific theories on light and optics, and it will revolutionize the art of drawing.’”(1)  See my About Dags page to learn more about the daguerreotype.

Happy birthday and remember… “from this day, painting is dead.” (attrib.)
Jon

1 Clark, Graham. The Photograph. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.

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