Thought I would start a thread to document the opportunities for collecting contemporary daguerreotypes. Now and again they come up on ebay, feel free to post them here, even if its your own lisiting.
This one is on ebay france and is by Marc Kereun
via Google translate here is the text from the listing:
Daguerreotype contemporary 1 / 4 plate
entitled: "Port de Joliette in Marseilles."
Shooting in November 2008 from the vicinity of
Novotel. This daguerreotype recalls, in a
different view by Marc Antoine Gaudin, to
1843, with his patented machine some time ago,
reducing the weight of all equipment
daguerrien (see image 2).
His plates were round with a diameter of 7.2 cm,
allowing instantaneous through the short focal length and
the use of accelerators, the bromine
here.
This daguerreotype is one of a series of excursions
Daguerriennes contemporary.
The method of Louis Daguerre, invented in 1839: plate
silver sensitized to iodine vapor, latent image
revealed to mercury vapor, referred to in the thiosulphate
sodium.
A beautiful unique and original daguerreotype, with warm tones,
heightened with gold (process Fizeau, 1840), was signed on the back
drypoint "M Kereun 2008.
Daguerrienne The image is installed in a passe-partout
Rappelling with a small golden wand, all under
anti reflective glass, UV, and closed by
filmoplast P90.
Dimensions of the object:
Plaque: 9X12cm
Passe-partout: 16X19cm
Very careful packaging, fast shipment, insurance offered.
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