So interesting even to this day. Back in the late 1990s I had the pleasure of participating in Eastman House historic process workshops. Daguerreotype, albumen, etc. To this day the images made during these workshops are among my most prized photographic possessions.

I remember seeing my first strip of contacts develop. Seeing that image appear was a moment I will never forget. Must have been 10 or 11 in a tiny darkroom my dad built for me. How they felt back then when they created the first images ever must have been out of this world.

@fshoaps

Жыл бұрын

They must've felt like gods.

This is so amazing . To be able to see a street from the 1840's is a rush . To see Robert Cornelius self portrait from 1839 is incredible . Such Incredibles minds with such a driven purpose :) learning about this stuff is so interesting . The entire process , learning of it and those who wanted to capture a moment in time is special .

This is the most understandable explanation of the daguerreotype process I've seen yet. Thank you!!

Louis Daguerre was a French painter who created 'Daguerreotypes', a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style, like a mirror.

@tjat69

3 жыл бұрын

Now you’re totally stuck in the retro-zone. Sad-face

@emmy4002

4 ай бұрын

Very good Victoria! The Daguerrian process brought out fine detail in people's faces making them extremely popular from the 1800s onward.

@MusicismoreImportant

3 ай бұрын

​@@emmy40021837

I LOVE this video. I show it to my students in Digital Art during their photo editing unit so they know here photography comes from!

louis daguerre was a french painter who created “daguerreotypes” a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style, like a mirror

@lewisnorth1188

6 жыл бұрын

Now you're totally stuck in the retro zone

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive

6 жыл бұрын

+Lewis Sad face

@IanJones942

6 жыл бұрын

Very good, Victoria!

@elise3455

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not into "capturing" your interest. That's kind of sick, isn't it?

@nadined3576

3 жыл бұрын

Now, Max, since you've captured our interest and clearly want to join the conversation, can you please tell us the name of the process that gave birth to the first self-portraits?

Thank you so much for this series. Who knew!! It is amazing to listen to the details of early photography!1

Photos were a lot work. Thank God these were done.

Excellent video and an excellent series..... wish they were just a bit longer!

Thank you for this amazing video :)

A fabulous discovery ❤️

France gave birth to countless inventions, researchers and pionneers. Question is: how did you get possession of those unique pieces that should belong to a French museum?

Watched this for my honors English class. Pretty cool.

Would love to see some Grant Romer! His lecture, on KZread, in Atlanta some 10 years ago was a throwback to the 19th century Lyceum---fabulous! How anyone figured this out in the beginning is beyond my comprehension.

Thank you Louis Daguerre from France who invented photography.

amazing

this is so cool

very interesting

Incredible

Daguerreotypes have a "steampunk" feeling about them to me. It is certainly a process that belongs in the 19th century, a time that seems like a blend of science,magic and adventure. They are also very beautiful in a way in which modern photography seems almost completely lacking.

Largest collection of Daguerreotypes in the world and they are all stored???? They should be on display for people to see them.

@rltreasure

15 күн бұрын

Exposed to air, the silver will continue to tarnish and darken

It's incredible that amount of views on this video, no million views and are billions smart phones with camera's now.

SOOO COOL

Just came to watch this to escape the retro zone. Sad face.

who would've thought that a game would get me to learn history

@speedyrax4506

4 жыл бұрын

YOU CAME HERE AFTER STARTING LIFE IS STRANGE?

Of course developing images in warm mercury vapour was not without hazard.

Brought to you by Aperture Science.

Photography makes me feel alive ,the same way that gambling make others feel alive.

Man, Life is Strange.

@WikiSorcerer

5 жыл бұрын

Hella strange.

@Alhapra

4 жыл бұрын

Shaka brah

@Accelerator26

4 жыл бұрын

Wowser

@lucutes2936

3 жыл бұрын

wat

Was their a method that required egg whites to preserve the image? I have been searching the internet for something i thought i had heard in art class decades ago.

@shuttlefeather

4 жыл бұрын

Photographic paper was made using egg whites called "albumen". Search "albumen print". It was a joint effort between the photographers and the chickens

@AnnaNguyen42

3 жыл бұрын

@@shuttlefeather lol I had to reread the last sentence 🤣

2:11 is that an actual photography/daguerreotype? if so what is this place?

@Jerbod2

7 жыл бұрын

no its a painting.

@augustebenson2464

5 жыл бұрын

No it's not a painting, it's an engraving or a pastel on paper photographed !

If one were to find a Daguerreotype photographer, what sort of price would you expect to pay for a modern, commissioned portrait, say 8" squarish?

@peterrenn6341

3 ай бұрын

8” square is huge for a daguerreotype. The work and time polishing goes up exponentially. Chuck Close and Jerry Spagnoli are about the only people I can think of who might work that big. The man to ask re costs is Mike Robinson (seen in this video). It won’t be cheap…

I want to be friends with everybody who made a Life is strange reference here XD

Uh :(, I'm here because I wanted to learn about this.... I wonder what would have happened if photography had been invented earlier? We would have photos from the regency era, from the independence of the Spanish colonies in Latin America.... We would know how historical characters really looked like, we could see people in their daily lives, seeing how they really were... it would be fascinating to have these inventions before, thanks to Nicephore and Daguerre, and many other people who collaborated in the invention of photography, we can enjoy the photos.

George Eastman website is having problems with their servers.At this moment it won't up laod

Read the NEW book HISTORICAL HEADSTONES due out late October, 2018. It contains a new unknown image of louis Daguerre c.1839 & William Valentine who studied under him! You WILL be glad you did!

I just found two of these frames at a garage sale

i wanna meme this video up

i still dont get how it works .

Max & Chloe Deguerreotype plz

Love your videos. I wish the elephant head was not used as the example...I show these videos to my high school students, but not this one...it's too horrific. I remember going to the Eastman House as a kid and being haunted by the animals...especially the elephants. If you ever decided to edit this I would be so grateful! Just a thought...

@GeorgeEastmanMuseum

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Robyn, there are no plans to update these videos at the moment. George Eastman, was a big game hunter. He went to Africa twice to photograph, film, and hunt big game. This was typical of wealthy men of his time, like Theodore Roosevelt and others. As curators and historians, our job is to tell the story of our historic sites as accurately as possible, and not to gloss over or rewrite its history. However, you should also know that the elephant in his Conservatory is a reproduction of the original one he hung there; it is made of fiberglass, wood, and paint.

@robynzellar3510

3 жыл бұрын

@@GeorgeEastmanMuseum I thought that looked fake! That is so good to know. I understand that we should not gloss over history, but this video is about a photographic process, not George Eastman. Anyway, thanks for your response--makes me feel better to show it to my students (I run an elephant NGO as well). I love these videos--thanks so much for making them. All the best. :-)

Mr Jefferson brought me here after being in the darkroom

@lewisnorth1188

7 жыл бұрын

ThePhreakass this is what I was hoping to find in the comments

@ZacabebOTG

7 жыл бұрын

ThePhreakass Wowsers.

@goognamgoognw6637

6 жыл бұрын

who gives a rat what brought you here, dumbed down smart phone generation !

@sk-oq3nu

5 жыл бұрын

@@goognamgoognw6637 awwww...bayotgagobogoinutilinatayka

@nadined3576

3 жыл бұрын

Me too XD

now we can easily take photos with our phones

"except England" that is because Daguerre had started another approach with the Royal society in London

@tonywhite383

2 жыл бұрын

So, it was ok in Scotland?

@nicktamer4969

2 жыл бұрын

Il s'est passé quoi au juste entre Daguerre et les Anglais ? Merci.

@jckhammer

Жыл бұрын

@@tonywhite383 well Scotland is not england

@peterrenn6341

3 ай бұрын

Kinda.. Daguerre had already done a patent licence deal with Richard Beard

CMN 396 woot

The elephant head is fake, right?

@davestelling

6 ай бұрын

Yes. Reproduction...

¡¡¡ algunos de sus empleados NO usan Guantes !!!

0:38 someone knows who is the black woman?

John Mulaney

i came from dr. stone

@Accelerator26

4 жыл бұрын

too bad I came from Life is Strange

2:25 Actually he's not Daguerre. He's a Turkish singer, Ibrahim Tatlises. search google, thank me later.

@irisheyesofbelfast

2 жыл бұрын

No, it is Daguerre and not even similar to Tatlises.

How many times can you talk about Walter Benjamin's concept of the aura without actually mentioning the word "aura?"

I wonder what % of Portland hipsters already have a Daguerreotype of themselves?

largest collection stored in a closet, yu got to be kidding, quelle honte pourquoi ne pas l'exposer???

The Daguerreotype - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 2 of 12 0551am 5.1.24 i can feel the ire and angst of the digitally hyperactive, as they seek to comprehend the facts of the matter - of some dude taking all that time and effort to create a fuzzy or blurred or hazy or patchy daguerreotype image. ummmmmmmm, anti english sentiments went into promoting that process. perhaps the english or british had suggested the idea was their own as said idea was eaten up by the Europeans...?................. as much as coming down the hill to contemplate the idea of this process appeals. the hermit refuses to pay the french man's stinking toll.

@peterrenn6341

3 ай бұрын

What???

@JJONNYREPP

3 ай бұрын

​@@peterrenn6341 ???

😂

pas de liberté pour l'Angleterre, car Daguerre avant de vendre son procédé au gouvernement français, avait déjà conclu un accord avec les Anglais pour reproduire son invention.

1:12 That's Putin!

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Screw England I guess... Pay up. ..

@peterrenn6341

3 ай бұрын

Not quite, though it’s easy to get to that idea. Actually Daguerre was honouring a previous licensing deal he’d already made with the Englishman Richard Beard.

Oh please give credit where is due! The French invented photography first.