Entries for the exhibit in Bry sur Marne close on the 15th of June and so far there are 30 exhibitors from 13 countries. The poster has been finalised – click here for a pdf.

To enrich the exhibition experience of the upcoming international contemporary daguerreotypes Marc Kereun has asked that if exhibitors could provide images of the technology that they used to produce their Daguerreotypes and a portrait of themselves. The images will be displayed alongside each Daguerreotypists plates in the exhibit. They would also be used for the “exhibition brochure (catalogue)” which will reproduce;

-their daguerreotypes
-images of their equipment/laboratory
-portrait of the author
-CV as daguerreotypist/photograph

Daguerre stèle in the garden of Hotel de Malestroit

June 15th has been set as the cut off date for submissions to the international contemporary daguerreotypes exhibit in Bry sur Marne. For consideration to be included on the exhibition poster the deadline for that has been extended to May the 14th. So if you haven’t notified the Daguerre association with you entries send in the the form to the president Marc Kereun (marc.kereun@wanadoo.fr).
With the number of exhibitors nearing twenty it looks set to be a great event, more details about it coming soon.

More have been added to the growing list of exhibitors which is most pleasing. The Daguerre association president Marc Kereun has also expressed that he hopes all living daguerreians will submit plates for the exhibit – “even if the dags have been made 40 or 50 years ago..” So if you know where the likes of Gerald Meegan and other long lost Daguerreians are alert them to the occasion.

The list of exhibitors now stands at 12 and a deadline has been set for submitting images for the selection to be included on the poster – April 29th. Said poster will be posted here once finalised.

Below is the church of Bry-sur-Marne which where in 1842 Daguerre painted the diorama (35 m²) that is now the only one by him still extant. The extension of the church with skylights in the top was built to house it and at Daguerre’s direction. It is visible in the full plate view he took from his house not far from the church and which is now in the collection of SFP (Societé française de photographie).

The “Hôtel de Malestroit” is next door (on the left of the image) and will house the exhibition 170 years since the announcement to the world of the process.

Submissions so far for the exhibit in Bry are in the left hand column of this page, some of the images submitted are posted in the thread in the dagforum;

If you would like to be in for a chance to be on the exhibiton poster don’t delay as it will finalised soon. Also I posted the submission form as a non editable pdf (my bad) here is the amended form and also as a word document;

Form for submission of Daguerreotypes to the Exhibition (pdf)
Form for submission of Daguerreotypes to the Exhibition (word document)