daguerreotypy

Several Danes are remembered for their contributions to daguerreotypy.

It tracks the brief evolution of daguerreotypy in France, where the medium lasted barely two decades.

For a while daguerreotypy was a better medium than paper photographs, but the latter product soon offered greater convenience, economy and reproducibility.

Here he sold his scientific instruments to the local college and acquired supplies for daguerreotypy and surveying, by which he hoped to earn a living.

In 1840 it was discovered that bromine had some advantages over the previously used iodine vapor to create the light sensitive silver halide layer used for daguerreotypy.

The show, although a little too large and repetitive, lucidly tracks the brief evolution of daguerreotypy in France, where the medium lasted barely two decades after its invention in 1839.

In 1994 Robert Shlaer, a former biologist turned art photographer, who had mastered daguerreotypy, began a four-year odyssey to retrace the four-month-long Fremont expedition in a specially equipped darkroom van.

Girault de Prangey studied painting in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and in 1841 he learned daguerreotypy, possibly from Louis Daguerre himself or from Hippolyte Bayard.

He moved to Denmark in the 1850s where he learnt the art of daguerreotypy from the Berlin photographer C. Fritsche in Aalborg and from Wilhelm Schrøder in Copenhagen.

Various artists, if they didn't automatically dismiss the new medium of daguerreotypy, recognized the threat it posed to their livelihood, and a few capitalized on its potential as an aid to painting, a tool for storing visual information.