• Welcome to Photrio!
    Registration is fast and free. Join today to unlock search, see fewer ads, and access all forum features.
    Click here to sign up

First Daguerreotype portrait

Cool as Ice

A
Cool as Ice

  • 0
  • 1
  • 63

Recent Classifieds

Forum statistics

Threads
202,710
Messages
2,844,547
Members
101,482
Latest member
Jeremizzle
Recent bookmarks
18

Dave Wooten

Member
Allowing Ads
Joined
Nov 1, 2004
Messages
2,723
Location
Vegas/myster
Format
ULarge Format
Samuel F.B. Morse, Inventor of the telegraph, and the first American to learn the Daguerreotype process from Daguerre himself in Paris, took the first Daguerreotype portrait in the world on September 20, 1839, of his wife and daughter who sat on the roof of a building from ten to twenty minutes "in full sunlight and with their eyes closed."

Matthew Brady learned the Daguerreotype process from Morse.....

(students note: this is a possible test question)


(info from Tomothy O'Sullivan..America's Forgotten Photographer by James D. Horan p. 7 pub by Bonanza Books New York....this is a good book to have if you can find a copy...
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Photrio.com contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.
To read our full affiliate disclosure statement please click Here.

PHOTRIO PARTNERS EQUALLY FUNDING OUR COMMUNITY:



Ilford ADOX Freestyle Photographic Stearman Press Weldon Color Lab Blue Moon Camera & Machine
Top Bottom