This week I have been trying to conquer the challenge of stereo and have added the result to my gallery page. It is of a Pataka, a traditional Maori food storage house and is presented in one of my passe partout with the reverse painted cover glass. A true challenge for a dyslexic person to put together!

Daguerreotypist Åke Hultman has started a small gallery that goes by the name of KONST & KAMERA.
The recent inaugral exhibition was of artworks of three local artists in north of Sweden, but in the future he intends to exhibit Daguerreotypes and cameras from his collection.

KONST & KAMERA
Västertjäl 550, 89396 Sidensjö SWEDEN
Tel: +46 660262090, +46703706605

http://daguerre.info.se

A new gallery has been added to the technology glaeries showing the camera of Walter Johnson. Walter also sent in a description of using old film pack adapters for shooting with daguerreotype plates, which has been added to the general writing section of the resources pages.

Folllowing on from our recent post about the oldest living daguerreian here is an image from possibly the youngest. 8 year old Grania operated the camera and lenscap entirely by herself and timed the exposure (with a little help from Dad with a lightmeter)…

We are very pleased to announce the addition of a new gallery showing the work of Tom Young, another of the daguerréians who became active with the process in the seventies. In Tom’s own words:

In 1973 my interest in and involvement with photography turned to its history and, in particular, the practice of early photographic processes.

By 1974 I was daguerréotyping and although I also succeeded in obtaining images from the camera by means of other early photographic processes, the charming process of M. Daguerre had won a place in my heart not shared by the others. It remains to this day my primary avenue of photographic expression.

Thomas E. S. Young II

New to Irv’s gallery is a 5×7 plate documenting natures form.