The Daguerreotype: Contemporary work by Jonathan Danforth

I am a big fan of Neighborhoodies.  I own a handful of their ready-made shirts including “I Choo-Choo-Choose You”, and “Helvetica”.  I used their design-a-shirt tool to make this specimen on the left.  MAN I love the Internet.

Neighborhoodies has a metallic silver ink that was too good to pass up for M. Daguerre’s visage.

I believe that this is the only Daguerre-themed t-shirt in existence.  I also claim to have coined the phrase daguerreoshirt. 

The first person (that I don’t KNOW, ALAN!) to stop me on the street that “gets” it will receive a hug and a free 4×5″ cased daguerreotype.

Special thanks to Jeremy Moore for helping with the outline!

Occasionally I’ll post links to the work of photographers that I enjoy.  I work for a small company with a diverse and talented staff.  One of my coworkers, Kim Durack, is a very talented photographer and I thought that you might enjoy seeing some of his work.  Kim has a charming way with people that allows him to capture very sincere emotion and that virtue is perfectly apparent in his body of work.

-Jonathan

My friend Ernie has launched his new photography business!  Go Ernie!

There’s a Flickr group for contemporary daguerreotypes now.

I can’t figure out how to get MINE in there but hey… I keep getting the message that the image is either already inside the group, in too many groups, or is restricted. As far as I know my images aren’t in ANY groups but I’m not even sure how to see if that’s the case.

Anyway… check it out.

Jonathan

Jon Lewis has created an online forum for the discussion of all things daguerreotype. The forum isn’t just for practicing daguerreotypists but is geared for the discussion of collecting, preservation, case making, etc. Go check it out!

-Jonathan