Friday, November 18, 2011

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's 224th Birthday

Today Google today salutes the grandfather of photography, Louis Daguerre with his very own Doodle, (preserved here for posterity).


Being a first photographer and a then collector myself, it was natural for me to collect daguerreotypes, the very first type of photographic images. Below are a few gems from my private collection. I wish I could collect more interesting occupation images but they're very expensive, so I concentrate on early hand tinged images:







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