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

“Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality.” A.O. Scott. Social History of Photography. Daguerreotype Portraiture. Mme. Daguerre, ca. 1840. Boulevard du Temple, Paris, by Louis Daguerre 1839.

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

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  1. “Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality.” A.O. Scott Social History of Photography Daguerreotype Portraiture

  2. Mme. Daguerre, ca. 1840

  3. Boulevard du Temple, Paris, by Louis Daguerre 1839

  4. 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)

  5. Ars photographica The Art of Photography Breathed on by the mirrors of the sun, A brilliant image appears How beautifully it reflects the forehead, The light of the eye, the charm of the mouth. Oh marvelous power of the mind, Nature’s new creation Not 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”

  6. Daguerreotype Portraiture

  7. Daguerreotype Portraiture

  8. Daguerreotype Portrait of E.A. Poe Ca. 1840 E.A. Poe, “The Daguerreotype,” 1840 xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/daguer.html‎

  9. Daguerreotype Erotica

  10. Eugénie de la Délassements-Comique Les insoumises by Vaury, 1865 Erotic Medical Ethnographic 1847 a south-east Australian Aboriginal and two younger companions . * RISD Museum: Prints, Drawings, & Photographs, Open hours W: 10-12:30 Dr. Chang Daguerreotypes: Portraits of another kind

  11. Daguerreotypes For multiple uses

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

  13. Ettinghausen 1840 Delaroche, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps 1848 Is Painting Dead?

  14. Daguerre, Fossils and Shells, 1839

  15. Crystal objects (1844) William Henry Fox-Talbot British

  16. 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.

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

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

  19. Textbook on Greek Sculpture, Emanuel Löwy, 1911

  20. Egyptian mummy portrait and ruins: Seti I and the Stele of Ramses II James Henry Breasted, A History of Egypt, 1905

  21. Vincenzo Galdi, Naples, ca. 1907 French, carte-de-visite, 1860’s Ethnographic/erotic Classicism/ Orientalism: Italy and Egypt Erotic/exotic/classical/slippage

  22. The Slave Market Jean Léone Gérôme 1866oil on canvas Egyptian woman by French photographer Carte-de-visite 1860’s

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

  24. Titian, “Venus” of Urbino Young Xhosa Woman, ca. 1870 Ethnography or erotica? Presence of colonialism? .

  25. John Draper, Orion Nebula, ca. 1880 Making the Invisible Visible Albert Montessier, photomicrographs 1866

  26. Frederick A. Hudson (England) Lady Helena Newenham and the Spirit of Her Daughter June 4, 1872 Making the invisible visible: Spirit Photography

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

  28. X-ray negative Sun Fish 1896 Josef-Maria Eder (1855-1944) Photochemist/ Historian of Photography Royal Imperial School Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, 1888 Vienna, Capital of Austro-Hungarian Empire

  29. X-ray Photograph Josef-Maria Eder Royal Imperial Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, Vienna 1896

  30. Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (NY, Neue Galerie ) Vienna 1907

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

  32. Roland Barthes 1915-1980 Mme. Barthes and her son, Roland ca. 1920

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