Daguerreotype
ダゲレオタイプ / 1839–1860s / Technique / Photographic Techniques
The first practical photography, fixing an image directly onto a silvered plate. A one-of-a-kind picture reversed as in a mirror and housed in velvet like jewelry is where the experience of owning an image begins.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- The mirrored silver plate
- A unique reversed image
- Jewel-like cased presentation
- Painfully fine detail
Best used for
- Portraits given as unique objects and keepsakes meant to exist as things
- Exhibitions on photographic history that let visitors feel image ownership
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Inscribe the name small on the back or the rim, never the plate
- Composition
- A bust centered and held still enough for a long exposure
- Material
- Mount so the mirrored plate reveals its image at an angle
- Caution
- Imitating only the look in software strips away how the plate behaves as an object flipping between positive and negative, leaving a pastiche of age.
- Further study
- Daguerre's announcement, 1839 / its arrival in Japan / contemporary daguerreotypists
Related entries
- Cyanotype (サイアノタイプ)Same Photographic Techniques lineage.Compare Daguerreotype and Cyanotype
- Carte de Visite (名刺判写真)Shared effects: Nostalgia.Compare Daguerreotype and Carte de Visite
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