DaguerreotypePortraiture

“Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality.” A.O. Scott

Mme. Daguerre, ca. 1840

Boulevard du Temple, Paris, by Louis Daguerre 1839

Paul Delaroche, 1839: “As of today painting is dead.”“La peinture est morte à partie de ce jour.”

But he kept painting. . . (Napoleon crossing the Alps, 1848)

Ars photographicaThe Art of Photography

Breathed on by the mirrors of the sun,A brilliant image appearsHow beautifully it reflects the forehead,The light of the eye, the charm of the mouth.

Oh marvelous power of the mind,Nature’s new creationNot even the hand of Appeles, the Master,Could have produced it more effectively.

Pope Leo XIII (r. 1878-1903)

“Ars photographica”/ “The Art of Photography”

DaguerreotypePortraiture

DaguerreotypePortraiture

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E.A. Poe,“The Daguerreotype,”1840

DaguerreotypePortrait of E.A. PoeCa. 1840

DaguerreotypeErotica

Daguerreotypes:Portraits of another kind

Eugénie de la Délassements-Comique Les insoumises by Vaury, 1865Erotic

Ethnographic 1847 a south-east Australian Aboriginal and two younger companions

Medical .

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DaguerreotypesFor multiple uses

Andreas Ritter von Ettinghausen, Clematis Stem, microscopic cross-section , 1840, daguerreotype, Vienna

Ettinghausen 1840Delaroche, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps1848

Is Painting Dead?

Daguerre, Fossils and Shells, 1839

Crystal objects (1844)William Henry Fox-TalbotBritish

Alphonse Bertillon Teaching his System at the Paris Prefécture of Police. “Sérvice de l’Identité judicaire: cours de Signalement descriptif (Portrait Parle)” Prefécture de Police, Paris.

Bertillon’s Lesson on physiognomic resemblance: Women of the same race (Roma) “Gitanes”Twin brothers. Possible to identify types and individuals.

Archaeological photography Giorgio Sommer, ca. 1875Cast Figures at Pompeii

Textbook on Greek Sculpture, Emanuel Löwy, 1911

Egyptian mummy portrait and ruins: Seti I and the Stele of Ramses IIJames Henry Breasted, A History of Egypt, 1905

Ethnographic/eroticClassicism/ Orientalism: Italy and EgyptErotic/exotic/classical/slippage

Vincenzo Galdi, Naples, ca. 1907

French, carte-de-visite, 1860’s

The Slave Market Jean Léone Gérôme 1866oil on canvas Egyptian woman by French photographer

Carte-de-visite 1860’s

J. Barnett and Co.: Young Xosa [Xhosa] Woman in Costume; Wood Bowls and Gourd Container Nearby n.d. [late nineteenth century].

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Young Xhosa Woman, ca. 1870 Titian, “Venus” of Urbino

Ethnography or erotica?

Presence of colonialism?

Making the Invisible VisibleAlbert Montessier, photomicrographs1866

John Draper, Orion Nebula, ca. 1880

Making the invisible visible: Spirit Photography

Frederick A. Hudson (England) Lady Helena Newenham and the Spirit of Her DaughterJune 4, 1872

Making the invisible visible: Spirit Photography, Russia ca. 1905

X-ray negativeSun Fish1896

Josef-Maria Eder (1855-1944)Photochemist/ Historian of Photography

Royal Imperial School Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, 1888Vienna, Capital of Austro-Hungarian Empire

X-ray PhotographJosef-Maria EderRoyal Imperial Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, Vienna1896

Gustav KlimtPortrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (NY, Neue Galerie )Vienna 1907

Ferdinand Schenk, Vienna ca. 1890Microscopies of acid on metal surfaces

Mme. Barthes and her son, Rolandca. 1920

Roland Barthes 1915-1980