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Odkaz Daguerreotype on Wikipedia
Wikipedia article with lots of information and resources related to daguerreotypes. |
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Odkaz Europeana
Europe's culture - collected for you. Explore more than 30 million items from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. |
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Odkaz The Daguerreian Society
Dedicated to the history, science and art of the daguerreotype. |
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Odkaz Daguerreotype Research Portal
The research portal for daguerreotypes. |
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Odkaz Maison Daguerre, Bry-sur-Marne
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Odkaz Musée Niépce
The website of Musée Niepce, a museum about the history of photography and Nicéphore Niépce, the inventor of photography.
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Odkaz Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes
Video from the J. Paul getty Museum showing the process of making daguerreotypes. |
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Odkaz Website BNF
Daguerreotypes are well described on the BNF website.
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Odkaz The Daguerreotype: An archive of source texts, graphics and ephemera
Extensive collection of source texts, graphics and ephemera: the research archive of Gary W. Ewer regarding the history of the daguerreotype.
(Contribution by Jens Petter Kollhøj) |
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Odkaz Cincinnati Panorama of 1848
Great on scrutinizing details and contexts: Cincinnati Panorama of 1848.
(Contribution by Jens Petter Kollhøj) |
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Odkaz CFR presentation article
Related to the Cincinnati Panorama of 1848.
(Contribution by Jens Petter Kollhøj) |
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Odkaz German Club Daguerre
Club Daguerre is the German equivalent to the U.S. Daguerreian society. The club is in existence since the early 1970s. Since 1974 a journal called "Photo Antiquaria" is beeing published three times a year. The papers are quite interesting to read, above all from the 1970s and early 1980s, when Martin Hansch wrote extensively on photograph technology and back then state of the art daguerreotype restoration.
On their homepage you will find images of daguerreotypes, explanations on housings, sizes, desireable photographers, scedules for meetings and fares, etc.
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Odkaz The J. Paul Getty Museum
Online Daguerreotype Collections. The Getty. You will find 174 daguerreotypes image+description. Near the image it says: This image is available for download, without charge, under the Getty's Open Content Program. This is very useful service, I have used for one image published on the journal and have mentioned this link.
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Odkaz Related to Getty Museum Collection
Here the link to the example I looked up: a plate by Eynard (we have several by him in the db of Daguerreobase). I liked very much the extensive commentary on the image.
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Odkaz Smithsonian American Art Museum
On this link you can have access to some daguerreotypes. You have a light box with main information and the possibility to enlarge the image. What I do not like is that only the recto is shown, and some times the margins of the mat are cut out, the complete case is not shown, or if the case is presented closed you can see only the cover part. So we have a good point here: In the Dagierreobase we always have recto/verso and full image!
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Odkaz George Eastman House
Here I was checking the link to daguerreotypes by J.B. Sabatier-Blot. As you can see this is a beautiful image quality but with a very few descriptive fields. You start with a light box, where you can see several images with a basic description (could be an interesting example for our light box on the database) then what is a bit disappointing is that when you click on the image you see it larger, which is nice, but the descriptive fields are the same. See the light box for Sabatier-Blot.
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Odkaz Photo Tree
A search in Belgium for useful sites about daguerreotypes unfortunately gives a poor result. Some amateur collectors have developed home made sites with their treasures. We will contact them for their content for Daguerreobase! I had a look at the more ‘popular’ non-European sites where daguerreotypes are displayed.
Photo Tree: The identification and the composition of a daguerreotype is explained in an attractive way on this commercial US-based site. But the fact that references to literature are missing is for me a disadvantage.
You can browse on very specific items like ‘military dress’, ‘hats’ ‘couples’, but personally I dislike the descriptions that lack objectivity and that betray personal opinion of the owner of the site (like ‘beauties’, ‘weird beard’, ‘the good, ‘the bad’, ‘the ugly’, …).
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Odkaz Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Reading Room. Here the daguerreotypes are only partially displayed with a focus on the image and not on the entire object (no recto verso, no open or closed view, no details). Some pictures refer to notes written in the case, but there’s no picture of this information.
There’s a drop down search menu that shows a lot of combinations, but searching within categories (or a combined search) does not always give the desired result: e.g a search on daguerreotype and mother (advanced search) shows some unidentified men.
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