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Daguerreotype --- Photography --- History

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A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of the daguerreotype camera. The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as seen through daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of the era. After gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, thousands made the journey to California, including daguerreotypists who established studios in cities and towns and ventured into the gold fields in specially outfitted photographic wagons. Their images, including portraits, views of cities and gold towns, and miners at work in the field, provide an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of mining culture and technology, the variety of nationalities and races involved in the mining industry, and the growth of cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento. Including numerous images published here for the first time, this book provides an extraordinary glimpse into the transformation of the American West.

Daguerreotype --- California --- Gold discoveries.

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1839 : Alexandre de Humboldt est à Paris chez Arago qui lui montre les premiers résultats de Daguerre. Il écrit aussitôt à Carl-Gustav Carus, le disciple de Friedrich, pour lui dire son enthousiasme devant cette découverte prodigieuse... Lettre emblématique qui vient relier photographie et Romantisme, science et peinture. Lettre qui fonctionne ici comme le frontispice d'un essai où viennent se superposer tous les signes avant-coureurs de la photographie. Théories du jardin et du paysage, problématiques de la fenêtre et du cadre, déploiement du dispositif muséal et naissance de l'histoire de l'art... : l'originalité de l'essai de Roland Recht consiste à montrer comment le Romantisme allemand s'est constitué en laboratoire de la naissance d'un nouveau regard. Paru en 1989, il est réédité ici avec une postface de l'auteur.

Daguerreotype --- Photography, Artistic --- Daguerréotype --- Photographie artistique --- History --- Histoire --- Daguerréotype

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Daguerreotype --- Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé,

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**What's wrong with Daguerre?** Following the introduction of the daguerreotype process in 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was initially regarded as the principal inventor of photography. It was not long, however, before the legitimacy of this title fell under dispute. Other inventors, including Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce and William Henry Fox Talbot most notably, were seen as possible rivals. This debate about the rightful claimant, otherwise known as the 'priority debate', has remained an important issue for many photohistorians ever since.

Although Daguerre always plays a role in publications discussing the advent of photography, he is not always treated favourably. His reputation has become damaged over time as, intentionally or not, photohistorians fall back on clichéd arguments and generalisations.

Daguerre's rivals, including Niépce, Talbot, and Hippolyte Bayard, are at times *pushed* by photohistorians, many of whom rely on various pieces of evidence to strengthen their cases, like lawyers in a courtroom drama.

*What's wrong with Daguerre?* shows that wishful thinking and preconceptions, national pride and commercial attitudes play a significant role in photohistoric writing. Although the inventors are long gone and their processes have long since been eclipsed by modern techniques, the old rivalry between them continues. *What's wrong with Daguerre?* explores the reasons why Daguerre and the daguerreotype are often *devalued*, and analyses why advocacy on behalf of Talbot and his calotype process has been so successful.

Photography --- daguerreotype [process] --- Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé