My Photo Life

Random photo-related musings along with my joys and woes as a photographer trying to manage teaching, making photos, family, and life.

Showing posts with label Louis Daguerre. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Louis Daguerre. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2020

Overdue Photobooks

I checked out a few photo-related books earlier this year : 2 from my local public library in January, and 1 through inter-library loan at H...

Sunday, July 05, 2020

Photography: "an invention of the Devil"

Here's another quote that I enjoyed from L. J. M. Daguerre: The Worlds First Photographer and Inventor of the Daguerreotype : Click to e...

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

"... possessed by the idea that he can fix the images of the camera."

I loved the opening to the Introduction of L. J. M. Daguerre: The Worlds First Photographer and Inventor of the Daguerreotype : Click to enl...

Saturday, February 01, 2020

Monthly Challenge 1 of 12: a Book About the Invention of Photography

When my boys were on their Christmas break from school, we stopped by our local library. I perused the art/photography section for a bit as ...

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

From one of the founders of photography...

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight. - Louis Daguerre, 1839

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Earliest Photo of a Human?

Have you been hearing about this photo that just turned up? Last month, a surprisingly sharp daguerreotype from 1842 surfaced showing 2 hum...

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