The Dawn of Photography
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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With Malcolm Daniel, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs
Rival inventions were announced in 1839: Frenchman Louis Daguerre’s process, the “daguerreotype,” was nearly perfect from the start but fell out of use by 1860, while Englishman Henry Talbot’s still-primitive, negative-positive process held the seed of almost all subsequent photography. Follow the tortoise-and-hare story that ultimately led to the media-saturated world in which we now live.
This talk is part of the Met Salon Series. Refreshments served.
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